In response to this week’s theme, I want to playing with the the movement. Because it was one of the reference to calculate and feel the time. I take some videos and using Ae to show the trace of their movement.
Context:
In the beginning,I am not sure what I want do in the end, so I decide to taking some videos at first, then getting the inspiration from them. I set in a fork rod and shooting some videos. I saw walking man, car... also I shooting the nature, like willow, lake... I found when no one passing the road these scene or no wind blows the plant, I will have a illusion as if time was stop. Then I think of one of my work in the last semester, it was shooting a stationary object and make viewer believe that was a photo. In the dictionary, time is“the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole”, and combined with my personal understanding, I want explore how to expression the each (still fragment)moment in a flowing time.So I decide to do something to keep the motion trails in the end.
I also got the inspiration from some work which about the freezing time, lots of film and television works used to imagine time stopping.
A motion graphic animation also gives me the ideas of using the outline to keep the motion. In this work, animator using the dynamic line to show the motionless pattern.
Line animation (motion graphic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVrIk8X3jWI
Method:
1.shooting some videos
2.Choosing suitable video clip
3.Using Ae to do some simple adjustment
4.Using brush tracing the motion trails
5.editing the video
Outcome link:https://youtu.be/Y4dMvIhWvIg
Reflection:
For my concept, I guess it could play more factors about time. Like speed up motion, stop time... using this contrast to enhance the concept I want to express. I want show time was continuous, but static(object) reference was also included in the flowing time.
For the producing, I think when I shooting the videos, I should use holder or other object to reduce the shaking,some video materials not working because the scenes never stop shaking. Ae was not a familiar software for me, when I editing the final work, I think it still have many thing could improve.
By Yiran Pan
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Published On: 05/04/2022