We viewed a short film entitled “Neighbours” directed by Norman McClaran. The film was interesting, as even though this was live footage, in some sections they made it appear like stop motion.
In one particular scene, a character moved across the screen with his legs tucked up under them, not touching the floor at all, giving the effect he was floating.
The aim of the session was to replicate this effect in Premiere.
The footage we used showed a person in a studio environment moving round in a circle, jumping every couple of steps.
The first major thing we did was cut the frames of his legs on the ground and only kept the frames with his legs tucked under him. Then we removed the background. This was the most difficult step and by far took the longest to do. The reason for this was that we had to make sure that the focus area of the keying was around the man.
To do this we had to manually define the area we wanted to keep safe by drawing a “path” around the figure. Because the figure was in a different position every couple of frames, this required continuous amendment.
By the end of the day, I wasn't quite able to finish removing the background of every frame. Because of this I had to finish the rest of the video in my own time and add it to the Rembrandt Video we had worked on in the previous week.
Since the person in the jumping video was moving in a circle, I decided to make it into a looping sequence which would play over the Rembrandt video. I also tried to blend it in with everything else using the blend modes and opacity.
Maybe I could have been a bit more creative on how I implemented the jumping video into the Rembrandt video, but overall I am happy with how it turned out. I would have also preferred if the jumping video didn't look so choppy, but this unfortunately was something I couldn't really avoid due to the nature of the original clip.
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