Culture Glitch

Wed, 18 May 2011 11:48:46 +0100

Culture Glitch

Research and Development Book

Mon, 16 May 2011 11:24:33 +0100

designed my CD case finally…should look cool folded and...

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:45:03 +0100

designed my CD case finally…should look cool folded and printed.

This is probably the only iteration I will be able to post...

Thu, 12 May 2011 10:58:44 +0100

This is probably the only iteration I will be able to post because of Vimeo upload limits but thought it would be good to show where I am and what is left to do. A few things jump out; I still need to retrofit some more type over some of the middle section, the pink noise/tv transition is really annoying me and the colour grading from the horses to the pier need either changing or transitioning better (maybe with a few similarly coloured flares or overlays).

Nearly There...

Wed, 11 May 2011 23:21:34 +0100

Just finished the type animations for the second to last scene…decided I really like the overlayed text now. Adds a much needed layer of complexity to the film and helps tie the audio to the video more.

Adam Curtis is a BBC documentary maker and his new documentary...

Tue, 10 May 2011 10:52:31 +0100

Adam Curtis is a BBC documentary maker and his new documentary (kindly posted by Luke and pointed out to me by Ben) follows a very similar line to my film in that it is exploring systems of communication and control and exploring the idea that we are nodes in a network. He also uses extensive archive footage really effectively. I guess the one difference is he is a lot cleverer than I am!

Text Tests

Mon, 09 May 2011 19:14:13 +0100

After talking to Ben and discussing that my film needs a little less flow and a little more quick cutting etc I am toying with the idea of some static type animation over the top saying some of the lines from the news footage. Not 100% convinced, they make nice screenshots and I think it looks really nice but I’m still not sure they fit with the context of the film as a whole. Think I am just going to have to keep going and see what happens.

1st Scene Screens

Tue, 03 May 2011 16:14:00 +0100

Can’t be bothered to upload the whole video but here are a few screens from the first scene of the video:

Datamosh Process

Tue, 03 May 2011 16:04:00 +0100

I followed a really good (if slightly mental) tutorial on Youtube to learn the process behind datamoshing. The basics of it are that video compressors use two types of keyframes to lower file sizes for video…a P-frame and an I-frame. I-frames hold colour information and P-frames (keyframes) hold movement information for those colours/pixels. By deleting I-frames between videos you get the effect of one videos movement being translated over another videos colours and pixels.

You start out with ffmpegX which re-encodes the video to avi and with keyframes every 999999 frames (removing all but the first I-frame). After doing this to two videos you take it into this horrible program called avidemux and append one video with another, then delete the i-frame for the second video and you get something like the image below:

I have plenty of plans for this as I think it is potentially a really cool effect…

Style Test

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:42:57 +0100

Spent the last few days colour correcting and datamoshing (will post more on that later). I had decided for a while that I wanted some more visual elements like text or 3d things so came up with this style test for the title sequence. I have since translated most of it into after effects and will hopefully have the first scene done by today.

The idea of the text is to make it look like something is loading or initiating with the lights, number and scrolling text underneath.

Making Music

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:36:09 +0100

Spent a day in Thomasz’s fine music studio whilst he showed me the ropes of sound design…made the base track for my music and also a load of sound effects. The bit-crushed salad-spinner may also make an appearance.

Storyboard V.01

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:33:10 +0100

Not the worlds neatest storyboard but I needed to get everything I have down and organised so I (and a little bit of Skye) wrote down the entire script from the news footage and also screenshots from all my video and made a kind of flow-chart storyboard to focus me a little more. Now I have the bare bones storyboard I can expand on visual effects and smaller details.

This video has the edgy, glitchy vibe that I want...

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:49:47 +0100

This video has the edgy, glitchy vibe that I want too…seeing as I’m at Kitchen Budapest I can hopefully make it in the next few days.

Found this guy called Karl Klomp whose work messes with video...

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:48:06 +0100

Found this guy called Karl Klomp whose work messes with video glitches to create some really cool effects. Specifically looked at these two videos because I am thinking of the soundtrack and I’d like it to be quite ambient but a little glitchy and edgy at the same time.

Slit-scan Iphone app

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:31:21 +0100

The other day I found a pretty clever Iphone app that produces realtime slit-scan photographs, as well as having a little mess around with some images it also helped me to understand the logic behind it and to translate that into something useful for my project.

Sciency...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:01:17 +0100

These are a few screens of some of the film going into my final animation. Havn’t really explained the idea on the blog yet so here goes:

The animation will be a mash up of film and found news footage/audio clips. The clips themselves will be a juxtaposition of these clinical shots with serene nature shots. The juxtaposition is taken further with the scenes glitching and merging as well as distorting through slit scan photography. The idea is to create a sense of the fear mongering and chaos of the news and digital media and the loose narrative that the has been some kind of disaster and even more loosely suggesting that the software glitch is taking over natural things (this is kind of exploring further the shrinking of the line between reality and the reality shown on screen(Charlie Brooker stylie)).

Obviously the book will also be made from similar photographs as these, maybe peppered with a few nature shots, and the photos will be steadily glitching out through the book.

As a bonus this is an earlier experiment with displacements that...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:12:54 +0100

As a bonus this is an earlier experiment with displacements that I found so I put some Radiohead to it…

As promised a motion experiment of the circle...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:11:07 +0100

As promised a motion experiment of the circle glitching…looks kinda cool, music doesn’t go brilliantly but I was listening to it when I started making it so it stuck. But these are definitely effects I can take forward now I have a slightly better grasp of how they work.

Circle Glitch Experiments

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:46:40 +0100

I was inspired by the video of the circle glitching because of it’s simplicity and I also needed to explore glitches in a little more detail so I took a circle and distorted them using video glitching techniques. Hopefully over the weekend I can make an animation out of this…

Couldn’t look at distortion and glitch effects without...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:30:48 +0100

Couldn’t look at distortion and glitch effects without looking at Chris Cunningham really…tried to stray away from looking at his more famous videos and found this one. The effects are cool but what really stands out is his incredible editing skills, something I need to spend a lot of time on.