You often watch a video and marvel at its beauty. Other times, when you watch a video or see a very shocking image, you are probably wondering how it was done. And there are also times when you frown as if to say, “What is this I see? Well, this video will have you doing all three at the same time.
Kevin McGloughlin is a video artist known for his experimental and author works. It’s not very strange or unusual to see fragments of yours that cause and cause rarity at the same time. Nor is it very strange that creating wonderfully strange pieces using complicated effects has an interested audience, after all, this world tastes like everything.
- That is precisely why he has created fascinating videos for musicians.
- Such as Tucan and Somadrone.
- But it is the video he made in honor of his father.
- The “Architect”.
- That really draws attention.
- Mainly because of the complicated techniques he used.
- Do it.
- McGloughlin shared a little more about these techniques in the video description.
- But he described his whole process to us in more depth.
- Step by step.
- But above all.
- Here is the video.
According to the video description, Architect? It has been realized? entirely from photographs and video images? using “various techniques of interval photography and long exposure photography” as well as real-time shooting. It’s very interesting, but we wanted to know exactly how McGloughlin approached his work on this wonderful job. He explains:
There has been a long process of making this portrait. The first process was camera work. This involved long-lasting photographs of a variety of sources, be they streetlights, clouds, liquids and textures, among others. With these sequences, the individual images were placed in 3D space and a virtual camera was placed through them. I also recorded real-time video that was treated in the same way, although in the case of filming the virtual camera was not placed going through the footage. Instead, I duplicated the video and changed the time in a frame for each video layer to create the illusion of a forward motion. Then I edited the different strings together in a transparent clip.
Once the first process was complete, I returned the sequence of images so that all the images were as a single video, then incorporated scans of architectural drawings, as well as photographs and video images of the human face (Paraic Sr. ) using different modes, masks and bright keys that mix the layers of the video. These images were then returned again in a single video. With this clip, I duplicated it several times and again placed several layers in 3D space. Again, I changed the time in one image for each video layer. So I used effects?to extract data from each layer at progressively higher values from the back to the front of the layer stack, creating what is essentially an EdStrata technique with digital media.
This may seem a little tricky for those who don’t know much about editing software or other tools, but it’s a great lesson on how to creatively use the tools we have anyway. Thank you very much, Kevin!
You may want to see more of Kevin McGloughlin’s work on his Vimeo page, and believe me, you’ll want to do it. On this page you can find some of his works with music videos and also other very creative works that use all the tools and techniques of filming and post-production to the limit. Don’t hesitate to marvel and learn a little.