Media Manipulation with Leon @ Room 824
Video:
Process:
The workshop I attended was about media manipulation. In the end, I came up with a video featuring political celebrities and animation characters. There were not too many difficult tactics involved but it is actually very funny, at least from my perspective. The first thing I did was to cut the originally 2m08s long video into 30s and make it play again and again. To realize this effect, I simply used a ”if” function, together with the ”myMovie.jump” statement. I was afraid that running such a video over and over again will cause Processing to crash but actually, it did not. This made me realize that Processing can somehow replace some of the functions within other video-editing software, which is quite convenient. After that, I imported some images and make them appear at proper timing. Leon told us that we should import the pictures into Processing during the setup stage and then retrieve them in the drawing stage. This technique can make the project run more smoothly as the images do not have to load over and over again. The last functions I tried was tint and filters. They generally worked well but I was wondering whether I should consider using different colors in the tint function to make the frame clearer. Also, I may adjust the size of the stickers beforehand so it can fit into the entire frame better.
Sources:
We are Happy on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/333893523
Kim Jong-Un Clapping: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/444771-kim-jong-un
Donald Trump Clapping: https://gifer.com/en/72XG
Putin Dancing: https://tenor.com/search/putin-gifs
Xi Jinping Clapping: https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Xi-s-new-era-marred-by-old-problem-of-a-slowing-China2