Story (2018)

This is a story of boy meets girl.

Something interesting about me is that I have loved, if that even counts, a girl I met at 2 for 17 years. Maybe it was meant to be, that we never got together. A recollection of old footage from the year 2000 mixed in with a more optimistic epilogue, stolen and skewed from 500 Days of Summer gives a perspective of love, when love was young, naive and rash.

Narrator: Benjamin Alexander Slater

Man With A Movie Camera Movie

Sought to bring out a technique about perspective of audiences that I took away from Man With A Movie Camera. So while brainstorming what to do, I came up with the concept of people watching people watching people….

I felt restricted by the flat 2D screens and wanted a different perspective of what perspective meant. I remembered my professor Yue Han talked about Live video and thought it would be interesting to explore that form.

I then remembered I took an instastory of this exact scene where the audiences of the 1920s were watching a movie and we were watching a movie about them watching a movie. And now my instagram followers would be viewing my story whilst I was viewing them viewing a movie. I thought that was interesting and wanted to find out how I could do it.

It was probably a coincidence that I was working on a webcam project involving manipulation of pixels of a screen using facial recognition. So using what I learnt, I went to explore luma keying and even though it took awhile, I finally figured it out after class.Was using a very complicated method to split colour to simulate colour keying before I found a much simpler method to it.This is the working and improved patcher. By routing a new object I learnt called suckah, I was able to pinpoint the exact RGB I wanted to pick out and by unpacking the list of rgb color codes, I was able to find the exact colours to key. I adjusted to tolerance to a suitable rate and applied a fullscreen patcher that enables full screen mode.

The result is as above and as presented in class. There are no alterations made on the screen captures.