Creation of images.

Speaking to people there was some confusion over how the images to be used in the video were created and were they came from. These are personal pieces of work they vary from typographic work to photo manipulation works and digital paintings, all have been created by me some in as little time as 45 minutes and others up to 4 weeks of hard work, they are my images otherwise i wouldn't be using them in this video, i hope the fact that i have created the bank of iamges the ones in the video will come from over the past 2 years will be taken in to consideration.

Below are some images i have created and their making of process:

Structure for the new video

Structure for the new video:

Eminem’s intro -Text on screen to explain the set up for the video (a series of images created by me that show our fears and tells us we shouldn’t be afraid of them)

Verse 1 - Should tie in to images of words, graffiti, and protest images, end with snake/dragon demon

Hook (Chorus) – Performance, make sure performer over emphasis movement of hands and use camera cut away. Strong back lighting to create interesting shots.

Verse 2 – Images of war and destruction, natural disasters, tsunami, devastation.

Hook and bridge – final performance and closing images and text.


The structure for the new video came from combining the random sledgehammer and the idea of honesty from the all american rejects video "dirty little secret"

Possible ideas.

As the project has now shifted directions i need a way in which to incorporate this new mash of random images in to the video. I think i may have solved this problem as the video will be based on the song not afraid, why not launch a concept of people being not afraid to display how they feel using images i have already created as a representation for their feelings, i have around 150 images for people to chose from and using modern technology gathering survey results would be easy so compiling this collection of images with an overlay of performers footage for a base this video could become a representative of teen emotions from happy to sad to funny and quirky, this also provides a reason for the random mish mash of imagery and gives the whole idea a great deal more depth, this idea could be briefly summarised at the start of the video in a few liens of text.

Testing....testing....

After much work and many attempts at processing the initial 30 seconds of footage, animating it and then exporting it in a format which is actually viewable with a degree of quality, I can draw one conclusion about the initial idea of the footage, it has failed. In all the preliminary tests with still images and the animation it appeared that this idea would work. However when the footage was exported to a format that photoshop could read the quality was grainy and slightly distorted, after a variety of attempts I concluded that I would have to settle for a lower standard of footage to get the project rolling. Unfortunately when i exported a test from photoshop of some animated footage the quality was basically un viewable. So now after much deliberation and debate i’m left with only one realy option. To completly modify the project, now rather then animation i’m hopping to keep the basic imagery but use still images overlaid on the video in quick succession in a form similar to the randomness of sledgehammer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0

But with still images and as an alternate to the original enter shikari style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAVne8dOzEA

Some information

Hi Liam,


I've tried to export your file but it won't work on my PC at home...I should have taken the tape to import! However I have found the links below that might be useful. The first mentions exporting as .FLM filmstrip from Premiere. I don't have the extended Photoshop to try this out with.


The second one gives a tutorial on using Photoshop with After Effect. This would be the ideal program as it is much more managable to create animations. I have created videos with many layers using this program...but I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.


Animation is unfortunately a painstaking process....have you thought of shooting your singer against a white of green/blue background, masking it out in Premier and layering abstract video clips/or effects around the singing subject instead of using a more time consuming hand drawn method?


Perhaps it might be better to work to your strengths and showcase your talents experimenting and demonstrating the differnet types of effects you know how to use.


Hope that offers some help!



About how to rotoscope

http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Rotoscoping

Importing from Photoshop to Afteraffects

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-after-effects-cs4/rotoscoping-using-after-effects-and-photoshop/

Importing from Premire to photoshop

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/using-video-in-photoshop-cs4/

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs4/using-photoshop-with-premiere-pro/

Importing files to Photoshop CS4


http://www.garunawebdesigner.com/?p=4683

Some infomation!

Hi Liam,

I've tried to export your file but it won't work on my PC at home...I should have taken the tape to import! However I have found the links below that might be useful. The first mentions exporting as .FLM filmstrip from Premiere. I don't have the extended Photoshop to try this out with.

The second one gives a tutorial on using Photoshop with After Effect. This would be the ideal program as it is much more managable to create animations. I have created videos with many layers using this program...but I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.

Animation is unfortunately a painstaking process....have you thought of shooting your singer against a white of green/blue background, masking it out in Premier and layering abstract video clips/or effects around the singing subject instead of using a more time consuming hand drawn method?

Perhaps it might be better to work to your strengths and showcase your talents experimenting and demonstrating the differnet types of effects you know how to use.

Hope that offers some help!

About how to rotoscope

http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Rotoscoping

Importing from Photoshop to Afteraffects

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-after-effects-cs4/rotoscoping-using-after-effects-and-photoshop/

Importing from Premire to photoshop

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/using-video-in-photoshop-cs4/

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs4/using-photoshop-with-premiere-pro/

Importing files to Photoshop CS4

http://www.garunawebdesigner.com/?p=4683

Production: The trials and tribulation stage.

After I filmed the opening 30 seconds of footage I decided to use it as a trial run for effects and the rotorscope process. Firstly the base footage had to be enhanced in a suitable way, to do this i applied multiple effect layers, below are the print screens of the two layers of video footage to show the exact details of the effects used: