Sky Arts #2

QR from Leigh Harrison on Vimeo.

Carrying on from the previous Arts Ident I decided that I'd like to look more at After Effects and how I can manipulate imagery to create something new. From my research project I had been looking more at QR codes and I wanted to try and incorporate these into moving image in my research project and so extended this to my client work too. I personally haven't seen anything like this before used in advertising where the entire peice is composed of a barcode

Sky arts test piece

Testing how layer masks work with existing footage, uploaded in very low quality as was familiarising myself with different codecs and formats.

I'm intending to film different painting techniques and place them behind the sky arts logo for one of the final peices.

Light box

I've started creating a light box, shown here in the first stage with no foil or coloured cellophane inside, although I do like the effect on its own without adding the colour. The fact that you can see the edges of the inside of the box (the orange parts at the side of the 'S') show that this experiment will need some tweaking before the final outcome but hopefully in the right setting I can get it looking how I want, experimenting with colour and different sized lettering.

Light Painting

This short film by Pahnl uses light painting with long exposures combined with stop motion to create a beautiful effect. I'm currently making a light box to experiment with in the hope of using the technique for my Sky Arts submission.

Experiments for client project

For my short for Sky Arts I'm looking at experimental ways of mixing colour as an initial exploration,

Experiment

Carrying on from the video I posted before by Louise Lynn I thought I'd try to experiment with QR codes and film to see if they could be used with motion. The code above does work (yay) and links back to my blog. I didn't realise until the upload the bad quality (or the colour difference in the text) but as an example of a working code I'm happy with it. I tried different colours but it only works with dark colours although I'm sure with enough manipulation you could get different results, I'm going to go on and attempt.

Also feeling the little nod to MTV Base? ;)

Masking experiment

Playing around with masks in Adobe After Effects CS4 with some HD footage I shot in Kensington Gardens. Hoping to experiment with more intricate designs.

I saw this short clip on the blog of student, Louise Lynn. She has used masks to create this overlayed effect which has turned out well. I'm going to attempt now to do something similair with previous footage.