Mixed media
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mixed media.movOnce I had successfully colour graded my video, I chose the series of clips that I would transform into the mixed media portion of the video. The video on the left shows the chosen clip in its post colour graded form, chosen due to the transitional effect that was possibile from it. As I had chosen a video that was already colour graded, it meant I would not have to experiment visually on Premiere Pro, not only saving time but also ensuring the aesthetic of the mixed media clip remained consistent with the rest of my work.
The process:
My first step was to open the clips into premiere pro and change the frame rate from 30 to 12. This ensured the number of frames I would individually work on would be halved. The choice of 12 frames was recommended after researching mixed media, as it is time efficient yet doesn't sacrifice the quality of the video through maintaining a natural speed. To export the video as indidual frames, I had to export as PNG ALPHA through a render sequence that placed all the frames into a folder set up for printing.
Editing the frames:
As I was using around 14 seconds of clips for the mixed media portion of the video at a rate of 12fps, I had 163 frames to work with. At first I tried to print for frames per piece of paper, however the quality of the print was effected heavily, thus leaving me to print each frame on it's own piece of paper. Once printed, I immediately began to scratch away at the paper with a blunt scalpal, experimenting with shapes, outlines and patterns as I worked through my early frames. When I got to the portion of the clip where the subject was speaking, I decided to take on the task of animating a speech bubble, an idea that came to me spontaneously during the process as I became increasingly confident with the technique. To ensure that each frame developed accurately from the previous frame, I placed my following frame under the current one which would embed an imprint to the paper as a guide for the frame. Just like the speech bubble, the transition was also an idea that only came to me once I had reached the frame, unsure as to how it would work out until it was all fully uploaded. The transition was made by simply cutting out the portion of paper on the right of the subject, which would in turn overlay the following video revealing it frame by frame.
Scanning in
Scanning in
Overall there were 163 pieces of paper to rescan in, therefore taking numerous hours to compile. In this sense it was crucial that I labelled the frames prior to the upload, therefore saving any concern around uploading them unorganised. I would have printed the frames twice every two sheets if done again for it would have halved my time in some of the most slow work I had undertaken for this project.
On the left is just a small portion of the number of frames I was now working with, still unsure as for the best way to compile them into a single video. Yet before I could do so, I was struck with arguably the biggest issue in the entire video, my frames were not alligned, thus if put directly into after effects, each frame would move noticeably in composition to the previous one, ultimately undermining the effect all together. Thus I turned to photoshop to allign each image, going through them individually to match them all up.
Once I had exported each frame from photoshop, I imported them all into premiere pro, and onto my timeline. I then brought over a new adjustment layer to cover all of the frames, which was then cut into through changing speed duration of each frame. This was then hit with a ripple delete to bring all the frames next to eachother, completing the finished video.
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