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VIDEO I TRANSFORMATIONS<br />

I also wanted to create a video based piece of work from some of<br />

the sequences of photographs to show awkward uncom<strong>for</strong>table<br />

transition states through time, and I had selected a series of<br />

images of Freya going through the process of pulling a top too<br />

tight <strong>for</strong> her over her head. However at this point I had no<br />

knowledge of video editing software and despite looking at a<br />

range of easy options which had alpha transitioning their<br />

implementation was either subject to software wizards with little<br />

control over the timescale of the transition, or the resulting<br />

transitions looked like canned effects. In the end I decide to use<br />

Adobe Premier as I’d read that its transitioning tools would offer<br />

me greater control.<br />

However the alpha transitions were global meaning that they<br />

occurred over the entire image and I wanted only portions of an<br />

image to be revealed through other over and underlying images.<br />

The effect which I was looking <strong>for</strong> was <strong>for</strong> the imagery to look<br />

distorted and contorted, and straight<strong>for</strong>ward transitions would<br />

not achieve this <strong>for</strong> me. I found a fix in firstly creating transitioned<br />

still images in Adobe Photoshop which I then imported into<br />

Premier to transition again. This really mixed things up and gave<br />

me the effect I wanted. To enhance the awkwardness even more I<br />

experimented with the times between transitions, having some<br />

transition states which ran slowly whilst others ran quickly. The<br />

overall effect was a confusing nonsensical movement between<br />

image states.<br />

In another section of the video I had decided to use a series of<br />

images which Iain had <strong>take</strong>n as an experiment. These were by and<br />

large blurred and over exposed but the sequence expressed the<br />

struggle between Freya and me with a jacket. I employed the<br />

same strategy as with the other video except that the individual<br />

image slides were transitioned so quickly as to flash into and out<br />

of view. I also overlaid this animation with larger transitions of the<br />

same images but at a very low opacity so one could see through<br />

to the other sequence, and I imported and overlaid an image of<br />

folded material to add to the montaged effect. The overall<br />

appearance gave an impressional feel to the animation as only<br />

snippets of visual in<strong>for</strong>mation flashed be<strong>for</strong>e the eyes.

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