CREATION EFFECTS: DIGITAL SIMULATION OF ANALOGUE PROCESSES This essay is an animated exploration of Creation Effects templates for After Effects produced by Noel Powell. It follows my work on Project 4.2 ‘Teeto Times 2’ and the moving image experimentation for my SYP project ‘Quick Time Tales’. I started by editing a series of further short…

This project continues the theme of Lockdown in Aldeburgh. I wanted to capture the simultaneous bombardment of news information on the TV, becoming ever more alarming, but also very repetitive. And the mental disturbance this produced. Glitches are uncontrolled or unexpected happenings in time. They are a feature of contemporary culture eg music movies. Technically…

For this project I selected an iPad clip of a woman and dog dancing at Aldeburgh carnival. I was interested in the interaction between the woman and dog, and how things might look if I showed just the dog writhing in space to music. The erasure process in After Effects was very difficult. Again because…

This 1 minute video is a compilation of clips from a holiday room in Aldeburgh Suffolk during Lockdown in December 2020. The original footage of boilers at night and close-ups of items in kitchen and backroom were already very noisy and degraded because of low light levels. I layer these together with shots outside my…

The video footage I chose was a short clip of ‘Teeto’, the cat next door. This is short clip is a preliminary part of a project ‘Quicktime Tales’ – a series of narrative vignettes for VisCom Sustaining Your Practice SYP work using sketchbook, experimental animation/video and creative writing about animals – wild and tame –…

This apocalyptic cinemagraph creates an imaginary scene from Aldeburgh on the Suffolk Coast. It was made in Photoshop through compositing a short video of waves and a much enlarged image of the ghostly dome of Sizewell B nuclear power station. I overlaid both layers with adjustment colours to enhance the sense of menace from a…