Today we went into the studio and created some light drawings for our BBC 2 Ident. Because the light drawings wouldn't work if we videoed them we took some photographs to see whether we could layer the images together to make a video.
These images worked quite well as all the colours can be seen and the background is pitch black, the only thing we found difficult was making sure all the colours could be seen and they didn't collide together to make a blur.
However, these images are quite weak and the colours are not as bold as the others we have done. We did change the aperture allowing more light to get in which made the images more bold and colourful.
We tried to add flash to the images but this made the background and the person holding the light show up which didn't look as effective as it was with the black background. Putting the flash on also took the vibrancy away from the coloured torches.
We tried to take the lightdrawings a step further by writing our letters which we were later going to edit together so the word BBC 2 showed up during the video.
Some colours worked better than others. The pink and blue showed up well and the colours were bright whereas the green above came out white in some images which we found difficult to change.
We changed the shape and colour of the number 2 quite a lot to see which worked better and the colours ended up showing up very well.
We finally decided that we were going to move away from the light drawing idea for our final piece purely because we would need to spend a lot of time editing the clips to make all the images run as one and make sure none of the drawings were missing.
In the end we decided to use the plastic 2 silhouette and put lights inside of it and create a short video.
We found this worked better because it ran through the whole video and we could do whatever we wanted with it, whereas with the light drawings we always had to keep in mind that we needed to edit the clips thoroughly to make a smooth ran clip.
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