Evaluation of Final Cinemagraph
My final piece for Unit 7 is a cinemagraph. I tried to upload it, but it will not save into a format suitable for the web.
I produced a plan and a story board for my final piece, before producing it. These are shown below on my blog.
I stuck closely to my plan, by using a young male model, that looked pale and washed out. I also used the tear drop running down the subjects’ face, and improved my idea by turning the tear red; to reinforce my narrative of fear loneliness and isolation of the current young generation.
With the experimentation of using these techniques previously to producing my final piece, it has definitely enabled and helped me to produce a piece this successful. As well as this, the research I have done on time-based solutions has had an influence on the decisions I have made when approaching each of these tasks. The research also helped me understand what were achievable and unachievable goals for me to produce in the given time-scale; helping me to make more sensible plans and decisions.
I am really pleased with my outcome, as it stuck closely to the plan I created in advance to producing my Cinemagraph. The eerie atmosphere I wanted the video to create was achieved; adding to the success of the outcome.
The video showed slight changes in the lighting. This was caused from me shooting outside in the garden, where clouds and any movement in the sky would have an effect of shadowing on the subjects’ face. As well as this, the subject, at points in the shoot, struggled to stay still, meaning the precision would be affected when producing the video on the computer.
This was a disadvantage of using a real-life person as the subject, as movement is inevitable and will therefore have an effect on the outcome. As well as this, using a young subject can make the productions difficult as their attention span tends to be short, meaning they will get ‘fidgety’ after a short space of time; once again effecting the precision of the cinemagraph.
Although this added complications when putting the shoot through Photoshop, I was still able to produce a video that worked as a cinemagraph. It just took more time and pre scion when using the masking tool in Photoshop.
I zoomed in very close onto the subjects’ face, used the feathering tool on the mask brush so no harsh lines were made obvious, and selected the very small area where the tear was falling. This meant that any noticeable movement was then hidden behind the frozen frame on top.
There is only a slight movement on the final piece, that I couldn't completely cover up. However, I am still very pleased with the outcome, as the entire piece was difficult to produce, but the narrative is still clear and successful.
To improve; i would have liked to have been able to re-shoot so that there was no noticeable movement; however i couldn't as I ran out of time.