Pixilation Project: The Final Version

This is the final version of the video we had to make as part of our Pixilation project for the Narratives module.

To make this video, first I had to apply a series of effects to all the original pictures to create a consistent look through out the video. Thankfully, the program we used to do it (Adobe Photoshop CS3), has a feature which takes a series of custom set settings and applies them to every image in the folder one at a time. Once the pictures had been customised with the effects I had chosen, I had to put them into Adobe Premiere. And from there, the pictures became the video in Premiere and I was free to edit the new video how I liked with all sorts of tools and effects.

I tried to recreate as much as possible, the original video that I made at home. This included repeating the part where our coats appeared to be 'sliding across' but I fear due to have speed up the video to help minimise the size, it's a ltitle too fast for it's own good. I've spent a lot of time tweaking the video though, especially with speeding up and slowing down chosen segments so I could minimise the size but sitll keep the video running at a reasonable speed. The size limit for the video is 100MB, but with a fair bit of tweaking here and there as well as changing some export settings to help minimise the size, I managed to get the final version of the video to around 40MB. I had already saved the video a few times before, but there was always something wrong with it so it became a trial and error process for me.

I'm really happy with the audio I've chosen for the video though. It's a song I haven't heard in years and it just happened to be playing at the Glo Bar yesterday. And for some odd reason, I felt that the song would be perfect for this video and I believe I was right to now. The seems to compliment the video quite well because they both seem to emit the same sort of 'kooky', upbeat and amusing impression.

I've been having a look at other pixilation videos by other students and on the web, and I've noticed how easy to see how rough my attempt is in comparison, but I know what I need to do now in order to create a more simpler but far more effective video. I think I'm actually better at coming up with ideas rather than executing them, as shown by this video. To be honest, I am fairly disappointed with the way this final video has turned out, it definitely needs improvement especially with the brightness of it. If I had a chance to make another pixilation video at NTU, I would definitely jump at the chance and also do my best to make it a lot better than its predecessor.