Week 3 - Revisiting New York.

Following the 2.5 Dimension study I wanted to experiment with the inclusion of text within the film. My aim was to learn how to allow the text to sit within the spatial image. Above is a small clip with the results.

Week 2 - Constructing New York in 2.5D

Above is my completed sub 20 second clip of my 2.5 dimension construction of New York. The film aims to explore the idea of constructing a construction.

Week 2 - Constructing New York

The second Future Representations seminar focused on the process of giving an image a 2.5 dimensional quality. In the seminar, all participants used Andreas Gursky's '99 Cent Store', an image which allows for for multiples layers to be extracted and navigated in the extra half dimension.

Following the seminar, I chose a photograph which I took whilst visiting the High Line Park in New York. I felt that this image allowed for the same method of layering, as well as a playful take on constructing a construction site.

Layer 7 involved the reproduction of the sky to cover the backdrop.

Layer 6 indicated the furthest distance object in site, The Empire State building. 

Layer 5 included the New Yorker building and other middle distance objects.

Layer 4, being much closer to the foreground, required extensive cloning to ensure that any mystique of a further half dimension was not scattered on moving the camera later in AfterEffects.

Layer 5, including the large chimney element and advertised building, requiring a number of additional constructed elements to allow for a more realistic film.

Layer 6, the foreground, involved only a sliver of the activity on the scaffold, a choice made to increase the impact of focal distance on the image.

A final, and important, step in photoshop involved adding cross elements to each of the layers. This ensured that on import to AfterEffects the images would all remain aligned, eliminating wasted time repositioning the layers. 

In AfterEffects I focused the majority of my effort on producing a film which explores the image in a way you could not in just 2 dimensions. This involved the panning and rotating of the camera along with multiple adjustments to focal distance and aperture.

On exporting the AfterEffects file into Premier, I was then able to add a simple and suitable score, Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue'.

Week 1 30s Animation

Following the first Future Representation seminar exploring the uses of Photoshop, After Effects and Premier Pro, I produced the above 30 second animation of Ron Herron's 'Instant City' with Edith Piaf's 'La Foule' as an accompanying score.

Week 1 Seminar 20s Experiment

Above is a 20s experiment produced whilst in the seminar using the AfterEffects skills I was able to develop.

Week 1 Seminar

The first week of Future Representations was an introduction to the necessary preparations to a file using photoshop. This involved creating multiple layers of Archigram's 'Instant City' drawing in order to animate them in AfterEffects.

Above is a screen shot of my selected elements from the drawing for animation. In addition to layering these elements the background of the original drawing required patching up so that the animation of these elements could be achieved.

After the completion of all layers and background patch ups, I was then able to save the Photoshop file to import into AfterEffects. Following the reordering and realignment of each of the layers in AfterEffects, the introduction of a camera to allow panning of the original drawing was required.

Using a 35mm camera, I was then able to animate the elements whilst moving around the larger image.

 After applying rotation, scaling, placement and colour variation effects to the elements, I was then able to export the animation as a preliminary 20 second experiment.