As part of my film I am going to include a brief section about the history of the haunted Arkwright myth. To do this I am planning to use some 'old footage'. This footage is actually video recorded myself and edited to look older.
The first video (above) is an experiment at creating an aerial shot of Arkwright with a plane having crashed into it. The video is a screen recording of me zooming in on the building on a Maps application. I then used After Effects to motion track a plane, fire and smoke onto the building. This was followed by turning the video black and white and adding noise, then positioning some images of clouds and moving them across the image as the video zooms.
I do not think that the video has worked very well, the tracking in particular is very shaky, with the plane moving around a lot. The fact that the video zooms in is also not very fitting with the old film footage idea. The footage would not zoom so much as remain static, or flick between levels of zoom. This is more reflective of how an aerial shot would be. I have done this in the video below.
I do not think that the video has worked very well, the tracking in particular is very shaky, with the plane moving around a lot. The fact that the video zooms in is also not very fitting with the old film footage idea. The footage would not zoom so much as remain static, or flick between levels of zoom. This is more reflective of how an aerial shot would be. I have done this in the video below.
This is the revised approach to the aerial shot. It was made using high resolution screenshots of the map at 3 different levels of zoom, which has resulted in a much higher quality of video compared to the previous version. It was also much easier to keep the plane in the same position as I was able to place it onto the screenshot and then animate the whole composition together (instead of trying to track the video). I am much happier with the result of this experiment and think that the style of it actually works very well for the idea that it is trying to portray.
This panning shot of the city was filmed at the top of the Newton building, looking out across Nottingham. It was pieced together using Adobe softwares such as After Effects and Premiere Pro (as with many of my videos).
Like the experiments above, it was made black and white with added noise to give an old film appearance. I then used motion tracking to add in some blimps as a reference to war time and put in some smoke moving in front of the camera to link to potential fire and dust blowing in the wind from an attack.
I am very pleased with the outcome of this experiment, it definitely conveys what I wanted it to and it would be a great addition my film.
Like the experiments above, it was made black and white with added noise to give an old film appearance. I then used motion tracking to add in some blimps as a reference to war time and put in some smoke moving in front of the camera to link to potential fire and dust blowing in the wind from an attack.
I am very pleased with the outcome of this experiment, it definitely conveys what I wanted it to and it would be a great addition my film.
Finally, I wanted to experiment with trying to portray the idea of the crashed soldier becoming the haunted aspect of Arkwright, to do this I decided to do a montage of progressively changing images. It starts out with pictures of the city before the bombing, then images of the war, then moves into the destruction of the Arkwright building and city. Following that, things become very sinister very quickly.
I think that the montage is a success, it portrays the idea of the history very well and with the addition of other narrative aspects in the film, I feel this will combine to become a very powerful part of the film.
I think that the montage is a success, it portrays the idea of the history very well and with the addition of other narrative aspects in the film, I feel this will combine to become a very powerful part of the film.