Twin Screen Project- The Human Body and the Digital World... Planning the Piece

I decided after taking part in all the After Effects tutorials on offer to me that I needed to begin making a plan on how I could make my final piece for this project. I knew I was going to go with the idea of having human silhouettes on screen and comparing DNA to Computer coding with in those silhouettes through obvious symbolism however now I need to plan how I am going to technically execute it:

1) Firstly I will need to record a well lit model moving in front of a plain background. I preferably need the background to be an bold colour so that I can use the process learnt in one of the workshops/lessons to key out the background leaving me with the silhouette. Ideally I want to have a green screen for this but because I am not able to get a green screen studio space soon and my model/actress is only going to be free on certain days at certain times I have planned to film this at my house instead and see if I can make the process work without a green screen first just to practice the process. I will do it in front of a plain cream wall  as I had no other plain background to use. I will light the background wall so that this can been seen properly and so that the model is already nearly a silhouette and then hopefully when I key this background out I can just enhance the shape of the silhouette and make it bolder. I will have the model/actress performing some general everyday movements and also some contemporary dance movements just to see which looks more ascetically pleasing when editing.

2) Secondly I will import the footage once recorded into after effects and start experimenting with the effects when keying the model out and making her into a silhouette. I will then create a twin screen on After Effects by expanding the width of the composition area to make it double but keeping the height the same. On my twin screen composition I will put the same video on there twice, one on either side, but then I will flip it so the two mirror each other.

3) Now that I have my twin screen composition set up I will plan to play with the symbolism by finding a way to make the binary code appear on one silhouette and DNA symbolism appear on the other. This will probably be done in the same way I learnt to layer images up on silhouettes in our green screen keying tutorial however it depends how effective this looks as to weather I will further this and find other ways to do it.

4) One of the last things I want to do is to try and have the silhouettes on each half slip out of time occasionally and speed up but then they will fall back in time. This is because I feel it adds more of a meaning to my piece by expressing that in modern society computers cant progress without humans because we make them but then a lot of humans become dependent on computers and feel they cant progress without them. This shows how they both need each other and that is the way our society has become. I want to also try and get a original soundtrack made for this piece to add to the meaning even further with out distracting people from the visuals.

Hopefully if this all goes to plan and I can pull it off successfully I will have at the end of this process a very visually pleasing twin screen piece which will also have a very strong message to share.