Background

A further essential subject in the project was material and texture. An important influence therefore was Brian O'Reilly. He is an artist and creator of many moving images, electronic music, mixes media and installations. Especially his work called Spectral Strands (Saariaho: Vent nocturne) inspired me a lot. The moving images are extreme clos up footage, which he shot of Garth performing on the viola.

The background of the graphic is black (standard). I considered the black background as boring and unsatisfying. To approach a more interesting and personal touch I decided to experiment with the material. I chose water as element, because of its fluent movements. Both, music and watcher has a smooth movement and can change from a calm and quiet situation to very wild, loud and “dangerous” condition.

The water sequence was created in after effects and final cut.

First I filmed seawater, which I then edited in after effects. I changed the colours, saturation, brightness and contrast. To achieve a more abstract result I used the bubble effect. The settings are changed to reflection type “liquid” and shading type “fade outwards”.
Later on the speed was slowed down in final cut to 40% to get a slower and calmer background motion.