Projection Testing

Within our music video we have decided that we would like to feature some projections. We are undecided as to wether we would like to project still images or videos as of yet and so we thought we should test both in order to get a sense of what both options would look like. 

We tested a range of images varying from sunsets to flowers and even water. All of the images we found were from google which we then opened within a photoshop document and changed the brightness. After we were happy with the final images we printed them on clear paper. The use of clear paper will enable us to use them in partner with the projector with no issues. 

After playing around with a variety of projected images we concluded that we liked the overall look of them. However, we felt that when the images were projected up against Millie's clothing, it was a little distracting. As a result of this we discussed wether the projections would look better if cast against a simple, bare back. By using a bare back we are almost giving the projector a blank canvas to work with, whereas with a T-shirt the colours did not always show up as well as we would have liked. Obviously, however, if we were to film a front facing projected scene we would use a white T-shirt as this tends to not take away from the colour as much as a black T-shirt does.

This exercise solidified our plans of using projection within our video and so we are going to continue searching for other images and videos that we can use within the video.