Artist Response
In order to respond to Julien Douviers work, I have used a fairly generic scene to merge two serperate cinemagraphs on top of one another. This makes the repetitions be in time with each other, as well as creating a slightly surreal effect. I use natural light, in order to create faint shadows on each of the pool balls, to show that the movement is not animated and definatly a video.
In order to create this, I had to make two individual cinemagraphs, and then mask them so that they do not overlap wiht each other. The backlayer with the person in was exactly twice the lenth of the time it took for the two pool balls in the foreground to complete a loop, so I individually copied each layer of animation twice, in order for both videos to work in sync wihtout pauses. I then went on to adjust the lighting and composition of the video, by brightening it, adding a black and white filter, adn cropping it in order to improve the quality of the general photograph and the composition.
In order to create this, I had to make two individual cinemagraphs, and then mask them so that they do not overlap wiht each other. The backlayer with the person in was exactly twice the lenth of the time it took for the two pool balls in the foreground to complete a loop, so I individually copied each layer of animation twice, in order for both videos to work in sync wihtout pauses. I then went on to adjust the lighting and composition of the video, by brightening it, adding a black and white filter, adn cropping it in order to improve the quality of the general photograph and the composition.
My second response to Julien Douvier's work, uses both the cinemagraph, and the main video of the fire flickering. In order to do this, I had to ensure the loop of the fire did not jump, so carfully chose a clip of the video in which the fire was at it's calmest. I went on to split the video's in two, in order to create a cinemagraph out of animation of the spade going back and foreth. This image is suposed to represent the calmness and tranquiity of the fire, and how it is easy to merely gaze into it and loose yourself within it.
