Colour Correction and Building Destruction

Destruction from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Damage File

This is the damage image I used within my destruction video to create a destruction within the scene. I thought it would be interesting to learn how to track a video that I have taken and add a destruction that looks 3d in the space it has. I found this really fun to do but it was also really hard. Tracking a scene perfectly is odd to do because it is actually quite hard to have a scene where using the tracking mode in after effects works properly. Even though the tracking didn't figure out its space within the scene I've still managed to add the destruction over the building and it stays attached to the building successfully. 

Darker Day With Orange Light

Road 4 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Bright Sunny Day

Road 3 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Building

Road 2 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Colour In A Scenery

Road from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Alternatives

After looking at the last video I did where I wanted to express the emotion through colours, I then decided to make an opposite just so I could see the contrast between the two videos. I wanted to see what emotions could be expressed through the change in colours within a single video. I wanted to experiment with the reason why people perceive things different when they have been altered differently. This allows me to understand what colours mean to people and when used together can create a whole different emotion. 


Archery 4 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Emotions Through Colours

This is very slight changes from the original video. What I've done is brighten everything up making the colours more intense and saturated. I thought that by showing emotion this time I would try to brighten everything up, I felt that this reflects the intensity when shooting at a competition. I've also overlaid a solid colour which I feel makes the entire video slightly better. It was a bright yellow/orange colour which I feel really adds to the whole emotion sense to the video.



Archery 3 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Archery And Emotions

I used the same footage but decided to make it darker in colour. I felt that by doing this it helped show a different emotion through it. If you watch the footage hard enough you see the archers getting frustrated with themselves then just getting on with the next arrow. I wanted to create a video that represents that again through the use of colours. I feel that this particular video looks better than the previous one, this is because I feel it expresses the emotion through the use of colour better. 


Archery 2 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Colour On Video

Another way to showing emotion is through the use of a moving image. I wanted to capture the intensity of what its like to shoot at a competition, so after getting the permission of the archers I filmed them while shooting so that I could grasp the sense of emotions people go through. Between each shot you see the archer express their distress with an arrow that has gone wrong, or if they know their technique is not quite on spot. I wanted to emphasis this further through the use of colours and relate that back to the emotions they go through. 

I decided to keep the colours fairly soft because it connects well with the concentration you have within a competition. 


Archery from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Film Photography

This is another of my film photos. I like the layout of the image because it was quite a deserted place and I feel the added touch of the two people walking in the middle makes it that more interesting. I subtly altered the levels within the photo using Photoshop, I feel that by using this simple changes it really livens up the image and adds more depth to the photo. 

Editing The Photo

After looking at the original photo for this I decided later that I would try to edit it. This was just to darken things up and to make it all more refined. I feel that by doing this it has made the image feel less calming than the original because the black is coming through more than before. 

Film Photography And Showing Emotion

This particular exposure I took with my film camera I thought was very subtle with showing its emotion. It was taken with the Pentax MV1 and shot with Ilford 400 black and white film. 

I thought about editing this photo but I liked how subtle the effect has. I would say it was quite a calming image where you can see the woman reading on the bench with the birds lingering behind even quite playfully. I like how the black and white photo isn't completely shown as black and white. It has a hint of red within it which gives it quite a warming feeling. I feel like if darkened it could easily be altered to look very dark as the birds and how its so deserted could effect the mood of this still image. 

Film Photography

A form of media that I really enjoy is film photography. I feel that the colours are more definitive than if you were to use a normal digital camera and you have a sense of old fashioned photography. This particular photo was taken on a Pentax MV1 using AGFA photo. I found through my experience with using this particular film that it works at its best inside so when I take photos outside they seem a little more washy than usual. Saying this however, it still does not stop me from loving film photography and the way the photos come out when developed are inspiring. 

This first photo was taken in Brussels in Belgium. I was in a park where I saw some interesting statues that looked weathered. This inspired me because also their positioning looked quite sad. I wanted to edit the photo to emphasis the sadness and despair within the exposure. 

I have placed the original exposure so I can compare the difference between the original and the edited photo. 

Culture and the media

Culture around us is changing drastically and this then changes the way we perceive things through art and graphic design. Technology is becoming more advanced so that everything is starting to be more accessible. 

Artist Media Ltd

A City In Colour from Artist Media Ltd on Vimeo.

Tom Henshaw

Going Against the Grain - Colour Grading Test from Tom Henshaw on Vimeo.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali has done the exact same thing in the way of his use of colours to create an unsettling feel within his artwork. The dark tones create a sense of mystery, even some of the brighter colours that are usually presented as nicer colours have been used in a way that still gives quite an unsettling sense within the paintings. The emotions that are conveyed through all of these paintings leave the audience as an unease. 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat has such an interesting take on showing emotion through his work. I like how the colours and the textures within the painting really grasps an understanding of how your meant to be feeling. These painting are quite unsettling, and I feel this is done by the thick dark lines shown in all three of these paintings. Bright blues and reds really come through these paintings but again its not very calming but adds to the unsettling feeling you get when you look at them. 

I find these paintings very inspiring when looking at how to use colours to express emotion through my own work. Because even using bright colours but done in a certain way can see make the audience at an unease. 

Jackson Pollock

I wanted to research into other artists ideas and ways of how they show emotion within their art. I thought of Jackson Pollock because I feel that there is so much depth in these paintings and I feel that so much emotion is shown through them too. I like how it feels just so messy and the colours he uses too to create the painting adds to this effect. 

This first painting Pollock has only used blacks whites and browns. This gives me the impression that its quite an angry painting and dark. I like how the white contrasts well with the black. Showing that black doesn't always get the high end, that white and purity can shine through all the dark times. 

This next painting Pollock has created is very colourful. I like the use of yellow and red in there. It feels to be quite a mixed feeling. The touch of blue shows the sadness and the red shows anger and warning, whereas the yellow and white and pink make the painting to seem happier. However, you have to take into consideration the act of movement within the painting. There's so much going on you can really concentrate on one part for too long without looking at the next. I feel that this has something to do with the use of colours and how they all interlink together with certain emotions. 

This particular painting represents fire. I like how the chaos really comes through in this painting. You have the red and white which represents the fire and the black which represents darkness. This portrays well at how terrible a fire can be and can cause so many problems within the situation. I feel that Pollock has used colours in a professional and mature was, understanding what the tension of the situation really is in reality.