Tue 18 Jul 2006
another motion50 / flip
finally got some footage of simon to be able to add him to the growing archive of 2 second films. in cutting the film i was keen to see what effect adding audio could have – based on the effectiveness of the audio in the last one i made. so i went for something a little funny – funny ha ha not funny odd.
on watching this i then thought about inserting blank frames again. this time i added them into every second frame. it creates a flicker that gives the impression of a celluloid flicker – ar at least hints at it. so the effect seems to make the still frames even more like a dance, more continuous even in their abruption. for me it also shifts the way the audio works – it’s much less funny. or maybe that’s because it was a one time gag – the subsequent viewings perhaps don’t sustain the joke.
have a look and see what you think. the first is the original and the second is the flicker version.
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July 19th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
yes – strange wee phenomenon that one isn’t it? The “celluloid” version definitely loses the continuity of the first… which, perhaps, in turn affects how the audio impacts on the experience of viewing. I’d still be keen for us to try variations on the flicker effect. playing with opacity of that layer for example.