INTRO
The shortest of the 3 parts seemed the sexiest out of the bunch naturally, making this video feel like it should be the intro of the 3 parts, yet we decided it should come last in the presentation of the series during the event as the audience of an event is completely different compared to the audience of a visitor of a website. During an event you are forced through a narrative, as you visit a website, you are guided by your ever changing attention span. And now I’ve lost your attention…
Part 1
A beautiful collection of individuals from the GTA speaking their mind on the current situation of their fields.
Part 2
A continuation of experiences through the eyes of talented people of toronto represented in a series of interviews.
Experimenting
Whenever you get a project where you get creative freedom to do as you wish, it’s always a good time to flex those experimental muscles and try things you wouldn’t usually try. This eclectic effect came through such a process where I had been thinking about this effect for a couple months but never got around to testing it out. We were happy to realize that the effect looked great and worked perfectly for the ending of the Intro video.
There doesn’t always have to be a reason for an effect when it comes to expressing art but I tend to try and ask myself “why” am I using this effect anyways to see if I can come up with a reason. When it came to this effect I realized what I was doing was creating a new style frame from it’s “original” self and doing this for every frame for about 7 frames. With this series we are tackling the multiple perspectives of Toronto through immigrated Canadians and how they differ from each other as well as have an overlaying relation. This effect can relate to this very concept where we are seeing multiple renditions of the same frame play out, allowing us to see multiple “views” simultaneously. And BAM, you’ve now BS’d your reasoning for such an effect.
First test
This was the first shot sequence that we tested this effect on. If you want to try this out yourself, download the application “TOPAZ Studio”, export a small scene into a png or tiff sequence, choose your stylistic filter from TOPAZ and batch export that effect. Do this with 5 or 6 more effects then blend them together and see the magic happen. I tended to stay close to brush stroke effects that were slightly different so that it was a bit more comprehensible but really the experimental possibilities are endless with this effect.
