Ingrained In video

Creating video in Final Cut Pro

 Using final cut to splice my footage together, to gradually reveal that what the viewer is looking at is hands. I added a sepia type filter to give it that aged look

I also included the audio, so the visual would fit in time with what was being said

Filming - hands engrained with memories

I really liked this idea of using hands. I want to film a close up of dirty hands, so close and a bit out of focus that at first you may not know what they are at first. The idea was to show all the lines in the hand full of dirt, the dirt is meant to represent memories.

Clenched fist - memories

Getting a grip — literally — by clenching your right fist before remembering information and your left when you want to remember it can boost your recall, according to the latest study.

This strange trick may work because clenching your hands activates the side of the brain that handles the function — in right-handed people, for instance, the left side of the brain is primarily responsible for encoding information and the right for recalling memory. (If you are left-handed, the opposite applies.)

To test this idea, researchers led by Ruth Propper of Montclair State University in New Jersey studied 50 right-handed college students, mainly women. They were given a list of 36 words to remember and a small pink ball to clench.

One group clenched the ball twice for 45 seconds, each with their right hands before memorizing the words, then did the same with their left hands before writing down as many words as they could recall; another group performed the same task but reversed the order of the fists they made. Two other groups used the same hand each time, one group using the left and the other the right. A final group didn’t clench the ball at all but held it gently in both hands each time.

The group that started with the right hand — and activated the left side of their brains, which helps encode memory, and then clenched their left hand, activating the right side of the brain during recall — performed the best on the memory test.

“The findings suggest that some simple body movements — by temporarily changing the way the brain functions — can improve memory,” Propper said in a statement describing the results, which were published in the journal PLoS One.

Participants recalled an average of 10 words if they clenched their right hand for encoding and left for recall, which was four more than those who used the opposite clenching pattern.

Ideas - 'engrained'

Looking and listening to the clip the thing that stuck with me was this idea of something engrained in, it works on one level, literally; Dennis talks about the muck being engrained in someone hands, but i like the idea of thinking of it as a memory that is 'engrained in' the brain, its something that he remembers.

My Audio

http://mikesnostalgiaproject.tumblr.com/post/50997298099/dennis-audio

the audio clip i chose.

The Transcript:

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'They are grafters. They used to work their arms out and feet and for about £5 or £6 more than what some of office staff were getting…Look at muck, that were a white apron!...Ye couldn’t get it out (the muck). You could always tell a buffer, it were engrained in'

Allocated Audio

After our session at the care home, we had a meeting where we each choose an audio clip that had been recorded and given a transcript so we knew what was being said.

Dementia Research Project

I was emailed to see if i was interested in being part of a research team that were interviewing elderly people in a care home. The aims was to record conversations with them and then create motion pieces that might help dementia sufferers.

Final LEGO Tilt Shift Video

Manchester moving time lapse

This scene was creating by putting my tripod on rollers and slowly moving it along as i filmed to create a smooth fluid motion when the footage was sped up.

Narrative screenshots

 narrative structure of my video, going from a rural setting to a developing urban city

Development: adding a 'camera'

To some of the clips i added a camera layer, which would pan across the footage. I wanted to do this so not all my videos weren't static and to keep it interesting for the viewer.

Development: Adding Filter

Using curves and tint effects to add a filter to the footage. It adds more contrast, more definition  and more hyper real which helps sell the idea that this is a miniature city.

Development: blur effect

I then created an adjustment layer and a shape layer so i could add a blur effect. Masking it off to certain areas is the key to achieving the tilt shift look. i was a case of trial and error, seeing where to blur and where to leave in focus.

Development: speeding up footage

Putting my original video footage in After Effects, i then sped up the footage by change the time stretch to 15% which seemed to speed up the footage just right to achieve the desired effect. 

How to create the tilt shift effect

A great video that show how to recreate the tilt shift effect to an ordinary video. I can then use this as a step by step guide to add the effect to my videos 

Filming locations

One of the videos i capture, i would stand atop a high vantage  point, put my camera on a tripod a filmed the scene for a number of minutes

Heres are screenshots of other location in Sheffield I filmed at