At last here’s a clip from the final pair of videos. Compared to the draft videos in my earlier posts, here you can see the saturation and contrast are pulled low: I found it shows greater tonality in the ink, and it acknowledges the moving surface of the paper quite evenly without a shadow that distracts. The main thing is that it means the video looks much more similar to the real paper and the original marks of the pen.
Putting up the projectors yesterday and keystoning them against the screens was not fun, and nor was the slowness of editing software before that. I’m inexpert and I don’t enjoy the challenge. What I really want is a way to do this kind of work without the detachment and distraction of putting it on video then getting the video back out onto a flat surface. Maybe I’ll find myself painting, or etching. In the meantime – perhaps an interim measure – I’ve spotted a celluloid film workshop in a couple of weeks and I think I might go along with Stan Brackage in mind.
