Creating the look

To practice, I filmed myself on the webcam of my laptop and used a colour pattern video that I had edited to see how the colours would look overlaying a video, I would have preferred to have used a projector and project colour directly onto the subject but I did not have access to one so I thought I would try and simulate it myself. I think the colours looked cool but I struggled to make them look as if they had been projected onto the subject, the colours almost took over the whole film.

I decided to use Adobe After Effects to make my animation I started off creating a new composition and using the dimensions 1080p by 3840p as I wanted the animation to cover the entire video and float around the middle between the two screens. I created a solid and joined a particle effect to it so I could control the movement of them. Then I changed most of the physics settings to 0 so the particles all make one strait line, after that I made a key at the top and the bottom of the animation so as it plays the line goes from the bottom to the top. Next I changed the gravity settings and thats what made the line fly around. Lastly for the animation I duplicated the particle layer twice so I could create a new path of particles to add to the animation. On one of the layers I reduced the gravity slightly more so it to fly around on its own but from the same point as the other two layers. Then I changed the colours of the particles so they started off withe and faded into pink. Finally I added the glow effect to the particles and changed the background colours, I chose blue and white so the animation could over lay on the video and won't change the colours of the video too much.

Although I do see potential in this idea I'm not sure how well the final piece will come out after my experiments. I also didn't think that the film involved enough After Effects and seemed a bit weak on the development side. Although I may not use this exact