Thursday 14 October 2010

Cutting Up Archive footage

Using archive.org and prelinger archives, as well as finding rare Doors footage, the first real part of editing started.



This is the 'oil and water' effect that will be added as an opaque layer over the whole sequence to emphasise the feeling of psychadelia, without it being to blatent. The vid caps were taken from a UFO light show 1967, and the joshua light show - liquid loods 1969
Layered in final cut to add an extra texture, it was edited down into a 45sec loop as 45secs is the maximum time allowed.



A similar process was applied to the war protest material. Short clips of demonstrations and gatherings, edited down to about a minute. Too much material but i couldn't decide what to cut out or leave so to keep options open, it all stayed. Basic effects ad filters such as Bad TV and blur were used mainly to synch the original colour, making it neutral and easy to add the sepia filter at the end without clashing colours. I feel this will add to the dated, papery aesthetic im after.

Archive doors footage was hard to find. Youtube has some live video and tv appearences but i had to browse dozen of doors fan sites to find any good material, shot on film, some of these images are stunning.
The way i am seeing it at the minute, these live action sequences will be placed into an already fluid backdrop that will house them discreetly and enable space and room for the text to be animated around it.
After looking at other documentary title sequences, i would like it to look clean and simple, with the information concise, clear and bold.

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