Error | Week Four : Visual Language \ Moving Image


This week I . . . learned to edit images in photoshop | filmed using a gimbal | captured my handwriting as animation | began to explore premiere pro

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Focus piece




Short film \ Everything Becomes Clear

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Briefed to take inspiration from the classic Cool Hand Luke line “What we have here is failure to communicate” I wanted to make a positive message to help reverse that failure. 


I’m interested in the popularity of lifestyle vlogs that combine uplifting words with beautiful videography and researched the methods of Thuy Dao and her vlog Her 86m2. 


Experimental footage shot on my iPhone drew me back to the striking lines and contrasting strong colour of the head sculpture near the University building, and I took advantage of the natural sunlight, finding a clean palette of red sculpture against the blue sky. The fractured composition of the sculpture lends itself to the message of the text and I shot upside down, tracking the flowing structure before pulling back to reveal the face at its heart.


I recorded my screen while creating the text in Procreate using applePen and tested legibility using stills at storyboard stage. Importing the video files to Premiere Pro, I combined text and images, removing the black background from behind the calligraphic animation.

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I would like to play around some more with the timing of the text and see the impact of using different genres of music. I selected a royalty free track from bensounds.com that underlines the flow of panned shots and was timed perfectly to the length of the film.

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I will include these things in my future practice: 

. screen recording animated handwriting (experiment with drawing too)

. typography combined with moving image

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Removing backgrounds in Photoshop



I find the acrylic version most effective here: it has the cleanest edge. I like the strong shadow in the original photograph; the cut-out worked well as a mood-board element.


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Hand-stitched booklet with laser-cut felt cover




I would like to print on heavier-weight paper to reduce the show-through. Very simple layout created in photoshop could be revisited when I have indesign skills! Also look at colour profiles to match the rich red of the felt cover in the print reproductions.

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Next week I will

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Start to work in indesign to refine page layouts.


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