Production progress

29th October

On this day I decided to begin doing the visual effects for our music video. It has taken this long to start them as I had a problem converting our video footage to

a .wmv file as that was the only way I could edit it. I think adding visual effects to our video will give the whole thing a more surreal feel which is what we are going for as the character is actually not awake through this video.

The program I used to add visual effects was Adobe After Effects.

The first effect I did was to blur the strangers face out. We decided on this as it will definitely show there is something wrong with the world the

character is in and this effect is too surreal to ever see in real life. I did this by motion tracking James's face so I could apply a blur to it. I made James not show any emotion while filming this so it was easier to track. Once it was tracked I added a lens blur to his face to blur out his features. I think I shall use the final look and I am quite happy with how it turned out

The second effect I did on this day was the multiple planes in the sky. When the character is sitting on a bench he looks up as he hears a loud noise and is going to see several planes all crossing each other, something that would never happen in real life.

This took a lot of trial an error. I first tried using some footage i recorded an an airport but this did not turn out how I had hoped due to the colour of the sky, I then decided to try just using an image of a cloud filled sky and add in some places I had cropped in Photos

hop. Once I had added the planes into After Effects I then animated them to move slowly and in a straight line just as a plane would move. This turned out pretty well but the planes look slightly unreal due to the lighting. However, I think this will all turn out looking good as it's going to be put in sepia anyway, so for now i'm going to leave it as it is and test it when I meet with the rest of the group.