Kevin Tucker1
Text in Motion - Final Submission
Song: "Technologic" (Instrumental) by Daft Punk. For educational purposes only.
The idea behind this project was to use a highly advance holographic digital keyboard and monitor (or "Heads Up Display"/HUD) to talk about how we, in the year 2010, still don't have all the really futuristic stuff that we thought we would a few decades ago. It's supposed to be a bit of irony that I'm using something super futuristic to say this.
As far as technical issues are concerned, I had a lot of trouble finding someone with a good enough camera to shoot this as it required a green screen. I used my own digital camera which was too grainy and didn't produce good enough results. Most people I knew also had sub par cameras. Finally I found someone with a good enough camera to produce a decent result. It's still not perfect and could be cleaned up a lot if the footage was reshot using a much better camera.
The video is cut into three short segments, each after the person types out his message on the monitor. The animations are simplified and cartoony visuals that describe the text just written, like a hover car that looks like it came from the Jetsons, or a laser gun that looks like it was taken from an old 60s cartoon, or the "space battle" represented by an animation that looks like it came from the old "Asteroids" arcade game.
Text in Motion - Final Submission
Song: "Technologic" (Instrumental) by Daft Punk. For educational purposes only.
The idea behind this project was to use a highly advance holographic digital keyboard and monitor (or "Heads Up Display"/HUD) to talk about how we, in the year 2010, still don't have all the really futuristic stuff that we thought we would a few decades ago. It's supposed to be a bit of irony that I'm using something super futuristic to say this.
As far as technical issues are concerned, I had a lot of trouble finding someone with a good enough camera to shoot this as it required a green screen. I used my own digital camera which was too grainy and didn't produce good enough results. Most people I knew also had sub par cameras. Finally I found someone with a good enough camera to produce a decent result. It's still not perfect and could be cleaned up a lot if the footage was reshot using a much better camera.
The video is cut into three short segments, each after the person types out his message on the monitor. The animations are simplified and cartoony visuals that describe the text just written, like a hover car that looks like it came from the Jetsons, or a laser gun that looks like it was taken from an old 60s cartoon, or the "space battle" represented by an animation that looks like it came from the old "Asteroids" arcade game.