The two After Effects workshops that I have attended so far were a great inspiration for my own project for the Illuminate festival 2019. I wasn’t aware the software is so easy to use even for beginners and I felt motivated to try something a bit more advanced than just still images.
My plan is to use a video of the ocean and overlay it with a still image of a colour palette of the existing colours in the video. I was inspired to do that after researching the work of Tomas van Houtryve and Anna Columbine. Their work covers different aspects of colour and perception – two important topics in my own work.
During the last After Effects workshop I had a little time to start with my project and have a first look at how the result could be like. The video below shows this first (very quick) edit: I used a stock video of a stormy ocean and overplayed it with a colour palette that I had quickly created with Photoshop.
I had a talk with my lecturer Andy Banks and he advised me to not let the colour palette stay there the whole time, but to individually blend the different colours in and let them fade away. He showed me how to do that in After Effects and I was very content with the result.
It was nice to see how my final project could look like when it would be done with more time and effort. Something I will keep in mind is something that Andy advised me: doing a second video (and therefore a second colour palette) because Andy suggested to do so in case my video would be too dark to project it outside at the Illuminate festival.
Documentation of MEDI512 "Experiment" 