The four ‘decay’ videos utilized images
created as part of the tests for the Developing Graphic Practice. The images
were originally a series of variations, with the same image altered by
different layers and textures in Photoshop. As a quick method of capturing the
results, these images were all screen captures and were not captured with any
regularity to the size of the image. This turned out to be hugely beneficial to
the animations that I then created in Hue – none of the images were cropped in
exactly the same way and as a result, the resulting moving image jumps around
slightly.
This influence is most effective in ‘decay
2’ and ‘decay 3’ which resembled old or damaged film footage and feature more distortions
and warping than ‘decay 1’ and ‘decay 4’. At certain points the main image
disappears into the texture altogether, a technique that I would later use to
great effect in the final ‘trailer’ video.
‘Decay 4’ is perhaps the least effective of
the four but created an interesting visual that I had not intended – the
overexposed whiteness of many of the frames creates a flashing effect that is
slightly off-putting but at the same time resembles flashes of lightning that
go well with the image of the tree.
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