Monday, 13 October 2014

Digital News Unit: Production - The Intro

Today we decided to make one of our ideas for the intro: a Jackson Pollock-style video by flicking different coloured paints onto a sheet of paper.

A Jackson Pollock work.

Mike brought over his tripod and Canon and set it up on two tables that we had pushed together.






We bought some paints, brushes, pens and a pad of A3 paper and tried out the Pollock style with pens. The plan was to set the Canon to take a photo every 2 seconds to make a time-lapse.




Mike removed the card and imported the photos into his Mac and ran it through Final Cut Pro (00:00 - 00:03). We then did the pen method a second time (00:04 - 00:09). Next we used paints (00:10 - 00:18):



We then tried with dabbing our fingers into the paint and pressing them onto the page (00:20 - 00:31). Finally we decided to do the paint one again as the first time we did it we missed a corner of the page and it looked slightly odd. Afterwards Mike went to remove the card and realised he hadn't actually put it back in after importing the last set of photos so we re-done the paint flicking method (00:33 - 00:43).

Overall I feel the final paint-flicking method was the best out of them all, not only did it look pretty but it also captured the most of our brand and fitted in with our Banksy story.

Below is the video combining all of the attempts.


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