P1

=Project 1=

Brainstorm
1st idea: My initial idea was to capture a young girl making a a paper fortune teller and treating it like a how to guide. After she had made it she would use it with another person and the text would become the conversation of the two girls.

2nd Idea: Film a number of people in portrait style. Mold text (a statement of insecurity) to face.

Idea 2.5: Film a number of people in portrait style. Use simple thoughts to convey the message that we are not all that different from one another.

Concept
Going with Idea 2.5, I filmed 10 people and told them not to move around too much. I used the footage and sped it up slightly to make it look a little distorted. By using a bar-code motif, I was trying to make the point that we are all numbers in this massive pool of over 6 billion people. I created a shuffling-like section between each person and their statement to make it seem like we are shuffling through every person in the world and just happening upon this certain person and their common thought. By making the video somewhat cyclical it is meant to fell like it could go on for every other person in the world. I chose the music because it is calm and simple, but uplifting. I initially wanted to make a statement about how we are all the same and no one is a unique 'snowflake' but it turned into the more positive message of "We are connected by simple thoughts", or we are not alone.

Sketches
(Different type treatments, on and around face) (treat people like bar-codes)

Trials
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Final
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Things I would change
I would change the colour of the footage to even it out a bit. Instead of using all the same width and colour of white bars I would treat them differently and change the colour/ opacity. Some sections still have a bezier curve on the interpolation, I thought I changed them all. I would go back and fix all of that. The bottom of the frame bounces a little, I tried to cover it up with a black bar but it is still not perfect. I think the only real solution would be to track it. The song cuts out at the end. Instead of using decibels, next time I will use the levels to get a smoother transition.