Like I think many other students in the class I am creeping closer and closer to an established definitive investigation. My work is branching out heavily from the concept of vision and how impaired vision can be captured in film. It sounds silly, but breaking down my footage to make it less visible is where I find myself. I have taken a liking to the mosaic effects found within Premiere Pro and have been attempting to put this to use in my work. The pixellated effect complements my investigation into visibility.
I tagged along with my girlfriend to the lighting space at RMIT a few days ago and found myself having access to a blue screen. I struggled with the lighting because shadows were being cast on to the screen creating inconsistencies in the background colour. The footage that was captured was not perfect, but I made it work by maxing out the parameters in post and layering this previously mentioned mosaic effect over the top. This is what I came up with:
Dancin’ Man from Gabriel Strachan on Vimeo.
As mentioned in a previous post I am trying to step away from the idea of perfection in order to motivate myself to keep constructing and making videos whatever they may be. This little experiment used footage that would not be acceptable for a feature film, but for my purposes of grasping the editing capabilities of Premiere Pro, it holds value.
In prose, throughout the semester I have been investigating rhythmic editing capabilities and the interaction this has with a musical source, using my expanding library of footage as a foundation for experimentation.
– Gabe