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'.
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