Lounge Evaluation

 As mentioned in a previous post, I decided to experiment with handmade cinema this week by filming a short video then printing out the frames and drawing, burning, and ripping them. While I'm quite happy with how my first test turned out, I've only posted the first version with very little editing, and intend to either reedit this one very soon or try a new one. Surprisingly most of my issues when making this video were actually with the post production, when I thought that the actual making of it itself was going to be the difficult part. 

1. Production

Since this was just a test video I just shot some video of me in my room to then manipulate, I then edited this into a 25 second video, and exported the video as all of the individual frames. After that I deleted every second frame so it would be on twos (and I would only have to print 370ish pictures rather than 700 odd.) For the manipulation itself, I first tried to burn the paper a bit, but it just ended up burning way too much, so I'll have to use a thicker paper next time, maybe photo paper. I instead just drew on it with paint markers, scratched it with scissors, then ripped it up and taped it back together. I then cut out each individual frame to then be photographed. 

2. Post Production

I thought this would be as simple as just importing all of the pictures off my phone into my computer and then transferring them as an image sequence into premier pro. As you can see, the pictures themselves are not centered like I originally intended. The smart thing would have been to set out a guideline on the floor so that they were all in the same place and would make the video easy to crop, but I didn't do that. When importing to premier I could only import as a full image sequence or as individual images. These both presented problems. With the sequence I had all the images together and could adjust the speed accordingly as a full video (which is the final posted version), but with each image individually I'd have to adjust the length and size, rotation, etc individually. From what I've seen online there may be a way to do this using keyframes either on premier pro or after effects, but since this is just a test I decided not to go through each individual frame and edit them all. I may do this later on if I have time but will probably just make a new version and implement all of the things I've now learned will make this more smooth both to make and edit. Overall I'm not fully happy with the final version but it was interesting to see how much I could do with just paper and individual frames, and I'll definitely be troubleshooting how to fix this existing video as well as making a new one with techniques I've learned and materials better suited to this project.