Etcetera - Nexus (Final Project)

Etcetera - Nexus (Final Project)

For my final project, I took the theme of transformation and applied it more to the way that I edited and presented my concept. Both my mom and I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and I wanted to make my final video an abstract and tangible version of what it feels like to go from manic to depressive. I incorporated transformation as a mix of animation or drawn frames to represent mania and pure live-action for depression. I assigned depression to live-action and mania to drawn frames. Throughout the video, I switch between the two mediums.

 

I used my camera, tripod, and premier pro to do all the base work, filming, and editing. I used the voice memo app on my phone for a few sound effects and I recorded the music I used through that so it had a purposely grainy quality. All of the drawn frames I did myself on the Procreate app on my iPad, I took screenshots of my video and used them as a guideline for what I drew. I edited the live video together first and added the drawn frames and filters after so I knew where they would go and didn’t overdraw. 

I really like the way that this came out and it feels very cinematic to me. The emotions that it evokes are exactly what I was shooting for when I was planing it out. I wish I could have done a bit more with the drawings but I do like them nonetheless. The sketchy, bright, and blotchy style compliments the live-action and it feels like mania does. Too bright, too much, and overflowing out of the lines. I struggled a bit with filming this because every time I started it didn’t look the way I wanted it to but after a while, I figured out what I wanted to do and shot it from all angles so that I had many to choose from. I glad that I was able to work through it because the end product is well worth it.