LO3: Applying appropriate visual effets and transitions

The most difficult visual effect to create in this project is the last scene which shows the different dimensions of the office workers possible realities, including the one where he gets murdered. The visual effet shows many different versions of the same shot, surrounding the origonial shot and then panning out slowly, including the shot from his murder scene. To achieve this effect, first I layered all the shots over each other on the time line:

In the screen shot above, you can see that these pieces of footage have been layered over the top of each other, to achieve the effect that the camera is taking a step back from reality, and is seeing all the possible ones, I had to first of all work out the position f the final stage, by editing the position and scale effects under Video Effects and motion.

These were manipulated for each individual shot that was layered over each other. The value of the scape gets lower further along the scene, however there is no way to explain how the positon values correlate to the progress of the video.

The effect took a long time to create, and still isn't perfect in the final cut because it was so difficult to create, however it made a very visually pleasing shot, which links to the the genre of satire/sci-fi since it is portraying an existential nightmare at the end of a film, instead of a re-establishment of an equilibrium.

Another effect I created on Adobe Premiere, was scene which transitions between the office worker taking the pill and waking up in the dimension where he gets murdered. This effect was a very simple process to make, I simply layered the candle footage over the footage of the cat clock, which you can see in a screenshot below:

I then lowered the opacity of the candle footage, in order for both of the pieces of footage to blend together in an eerie and artistic way. You can see how I lowered the opacity in a screenshot below:

The candles give the visual a psychedelic aeststetic which links into they type of visual style I am trying to mimic from Black Mirror, since they focus on creatin spectacle, and it is also a clear meaningful representation of both a change in time and a change in dimension. I clearly connoted this by speeding up the movement of the eyes, to show that time is shifting. This was competed by changing the speed and duration setting, which can be seen in a screen shot below: