I've been thinking about facial expressions while editing people that are about to smile, laugh or look surprised — every single frame says something, a sequence of frames or photographs, between two different types of emotions are interesting. It intrigues me how much emotion a face can communicate and I thought it could be fun to shoot some friends and slow down the footage with a plug-in called Twixtor; that blends frames, it makes up frames, (numerous action-sports photography tests on vimeo) so that something that's filmed @25 FPS can be slowed down by more than 95% but still plays smoothly, as if it's playing at 25FPS.
Anyhow, I had this idea of doing video portraits of friends and then treating the outcome with twixtor to give the viewer time to observe every detail of emotion, but wasn't sure if it'd work, so I tried it with some stock footage this afternoon, and it sure does seem to work. Test_02 is going to be in my mini studio at home with dedo lights and shot at 50FPS, to see how far i can stretch it...
The object could be viewing something on a screen and be targeted by 'surprises', prepared to provoke a natural, unexpected response, like throwing something or a loud bang or perhaps could the viewer be watching something on a monitor, perhaps showing the same content to a number of people to see the difference in reaction... anyhow the ideas are a bit all over the place at the moment, but I will structure it later. I've always found it interesting to observe the observer.
I've just finished finished a video made for Fabric 58 — I pitched the idea to film inside Fabric, and was allowed in to shoot there - the first person ever allowed to film inside the club.
So... I've just finished and delivered a video for Fabric
The mix combines 90's music with current music — 30 tracks featured in 60 minutes, so there was a lot of choice of audio for the video — almost too much!
I spent quite a lot of time to do the audio mixdown (which is where my old DJ skills had to come into practice, though I played Techno!), as I had to select 4-5 tracks out of these 30 — in a way creating my own mini-fabric-mix for my video.
I wanted to make a visual that shows both old school 90's and more current sounds, as is done in the mix by Jackmaster.
Basically: I like to stand in the space between two mirrors and look either left or right, or to look at a TV screen which is feeding from a camera - filming the screen and look into 'infinity'. BUT what I always found annoying is that I can't see beyond a certain angle — the angle you can view is the angle of what the camera is shooting.
I've experimented to try and do a similar thing by slicing the frames of footage in space and observing them from different angles with a 3D camera (through after effects) this is a technique I tried randomly 2-3 years ago when at college.
Inspired by:
I can unfortunately not upload the video yet but here are some frames from the video:
Looking at movement through time
Going inside a movement or person
