Christian's Strange and Nonsensical Thought Process

 As our first assignment for our second semester we were instructed to create a short visual piece in Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 of several squares and rectangles moving across the screen to demonstrate our skills in position and scale manipulation within the programme, in a short 5 - 10 second sequence. Personally as someone who had decent experience with Premiere beforehand, this wasn't particularly difficult to do, though we were shown easier methods for how to create our piece. The first step was to import a black video into the sequence to serve as the base. Second, we added in a while colour matte to serve as our rectangle. After manipulating the shape of the rectangle by disabling uniform scale in the shape's effect controls , our next task was to have the rectangle slide from the left of the shot to the right, which we did by using Premiere's keyframing feature on the rectangle's position. After this we experimented with various other movements and shapes within th...

  For my second idea for a collage experiment I decided to have it focus around the way we as humans tend to separate ourselves from nature despite being a part of it. The main focus of the image is a person that I generated from the website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, which I used to avoid concerns regarding consent. The person has parts of themselves that have been replaced with others, such as their body depicted exposed bones and muscles, meant to represent our core components that of which can be found in nearly every other animal on the planet. The persons head is notably mixed with various parts of plant life, such as tree bark, broccoli making up the hair, and pea pods and a grape making up the eye, with an apple as an iris. I chose an apple due to it's association with the biblical creation story, which itself has a habit of distinctly separating humans from the other animals god created. The apple being the iris represents how we see ourselves as unique or above the rest ...

 As our first practical back after the winter break, we were tasked with using the green screens set up in the room next to our homeroom to create a stop motion animation which we would then chroma-key onto a separate video backdrop. Do do this we were instructed on how to and subsequently set up several lights around the room to properly light the green screen for filming, with three lights set on the left, right, and in the centre of the room. We then set up two cameras similarly to how we did for our video projects in December, which we then connected via HDMI cable into an audio mixer, which for this practical was a Blackmagic: Atem mini pro. This audiomixer would not only allow for us to chroma-key the footage live, but also control which camera was being recorded at a given time, which helped us to get a feel for how working on a television set with similar green screening would operate. Below is a couple pictures showing off the setup we used for the practical as well as the...