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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.