Saturday 17 January 2009

BACKGROUNDS - CHANGE OF PLANS

From black and white, to colour, to black and white, to colour - it looks bad, and confuses the viewer!
When reviewing my animatic, the main thing I felt needed reviewing was how the colour of the backgrounds would effect the viewer. In the sequence where the film looks at Gods rise to stardom, which is meant to have happened a long time ago, the scenes cut from black and white, then back to colour, and then back to black and white. Not only would the switches from black and white to colour confuse the audience as to when what they are viewing is meant to have happened, but it also does'nt not look good on screen and does not translate what I want it to.








My plan was to have the sequence after we see God at university and see him at the height of his fame in colour, however after viewing the animatic, I feel it is neccesary to have the entire sequence in black and white to potray that this all happened a long time ago. The influence for the sequence came from footage of The Beatles when they were at the height of their fame, and I want the sequence to be a skit on those old tired grainy images. I have played around with the noise and gain effects in photoshop and after fx to give it an old look. I will look into other effects to apply to give the look of old film. Any suggestions anyone, that would be great! Im going to do some tests, adding some white and black speckles to the images in after fx and animating white lines across the screen.





1 comment:

Jack 'now then' Brown said...

Looking at the US Beatlemania stuff it remids me of when John made his faux pas about 'being bigger than jesus'...
Could you have God being lambasted for suggesting that he is bigger than the beatles?! Nowt like a cheeky 'in joke' now and then!