PROJECT 3 FINAL
December 7, 2009
Here’s the Loop for the final project.
Initially I wanted to use animation as I have not done anything with animations yet in this course. But then I decided that I wanted to do something with video instead because it seemed like I could do more experimentation with video clips. So I got a few volunteers and this is what happened.
I decided to use the concept of moving dolls since all my previous had something to do with some form of toys. The almost matching clothes and matching haircut makes the audience think that it’s the same person for a bit in the beginning and then as the loop progresses, they realize that it is in face three different people. The video is experimental as it does not really have any meaning and is for pure entertainment. I also wanted it to be very absurd so I used a song that incorporated a lot of different mixes of noises, which makes it seem like it’s also on a loop. And the fact that it was in Chinese made it more confusing for more people. There are multiple small loops within the video, but if you were to cut out the credits and ending scene, then the whole video works nicely as a big loop.
One of the most difficult and annoying thing for this project was saving and exporting in After Effects. It took me two hours to save the almost two minute clip and I made a few mistakes, so it took another 2 hours to save. As well the ram preview was not working for me at all.
Story board.
Initially I wanted to have four people in the composition, but decided to have three people instead because the composition looked a lot better.
