Photoshop Backdrops for After effects.

With these images, i have been thinking about the video window in AfterEffects and how to achieve that 60's feel.
As Morrison was a film maker, poet and musician, i want the sequence to have a papery texture, hinting at the notion of writing and the skitty nature of Morrisons' artistic outlets as well as making specific reference to the social attitudes and political climate at the time. The Sepia tones help make the 60's images look dated. There are surrealist pieces of art, mythical charts and symbols, war demostrations and pictures of the march on the pentagon, psychedelic imagery and poems disguised within the images.









These images were created in illustrator using layers, opacity settings and filters, using vector functions to delete segments of information and disguise the seams between images, then taken into photoshop to add final filters and subtle effects.
Using AfterEffects i would like to animate effects such as blur, opacity, photo filters and then transforming certain attributes on different layers to make the features feel fluid and alive. I would also like to add a subtle oil and water feature to be layered over the top of it all, really cementing the psychedelic idea, yet having it subtly enough for it not to be too heavily emphasized. My initial thoughts on how to achieve this are to use grey scale instead of colour. Make sure it is lucid and opaque and keep its activity (mixing the oil and water together) to a minimum ratio. eg 3 parts water for one blobule of oil or ink.
Initial thoughts about the camera are to do with slow panning and subtle zooms to draw the eye into the piece.
Still undecided on text and character images so have excluded them from this set of images. Further experimentation is needed and will be documented shortly.