Twin Screen Project- The Human Body an the Digital World... Final Piece Attempt 2

Now that I was aware of what went wrong last time I could make sure that this second shoot was much more successful. I managed to book out a green screen of an evening when my actress/model was free and I also had another friend come with me to help out as well. I however did not realize that we weren't aloud to use the lighting in this studio because it belonged to the journalism course so I was concerned about lighting but had to make do with the house lights. I stretched out the green screen as tight as I could to avoid creases and shadows ruining the shot. I set my framing up for the shot and this time decided to be further back so that I could get more of the body in which is what I wanted now I had a bigger space to work in. I feel like I knew what worked well from last time such as the contemporary dancing so I just got her to do a few repeats of that. This is a screen shot of how the footage looked unedited:

Now that I have managed to film it well enough using the green screen I can begin editing it much more successfully this time. I began by importing the best video into After Effects by itself and keying out the background and changing the 'Screen Matte' settings to make it a plane black silohette on a white background like so:

As you can see this time the silohette is much clearer and bolder which is what I wanted and now it seems much more professional.

I next needed to create my twin screen composition by expanding the width of a standard composition to double. I can then insert this silohette video in twice making it mirror itself:

This looks a lot cleaner and I am happy with it so far. I have matched up the silhouettes so that they perfectly mirror each other. I now need to layer the binary computer code on the first silohette but in order to do this I needed to work out how to make a script on After Effects which means it will type out as the piece goes along. However after trying this effect multiple times I couldnt find a way to get it to work so I was unable to make it type out. Instead I went onto Photo Shop and created my own Binary Code using text in here and then saved it as an image like this:

I then inserted my image of the coding as a jpeg into my After Effects twin screen project. I layered it underneath one of the silhouettes using the screen matte options which means it only appears in the silohette. I have decided to stick with this for now and I will add effects to it later to make it look more realistic and if I cant have it being typed out I will find another way to make it appear. Here is a screen shot of it with the binary code on top in my After Effects Project:

Next I needed to find a way of representing DNA and human nature on the other side and decided that a helix may not look right compared to what is essentially text on the other side. I went back and looked further into DNA and found this which gives you an example of DNA coding:

This has led me to go back on to Photo Shop and create another text based image but this time on the DNA coding system like so:

I then on after effects layered this in the same way as before to put it inside the other silohette:

I am really happy with were I have managed to get to by myself on After Effects and its almost how I imagined it to be but in order to add more interest to it I am also going to experiment with editing the speeds of clips so they fall in and out of time from each other and also see if I can add some glitches.

I managed to get the two clips to fall in and out of time by using the time remapping setting effect in the time menu and applying key-frames to the sections where I wanted it to speed up. I then in turn do the the same to the other side just later in the sequence so that they can fall back in time as well:

I have the speeds slowly progress through the routine and I think it works well to make the piece more interesting and to also fit my meaning better about how one cant progress without the other the same with technology and humans.
I am happy with the speeds now but I have decided to add a glitch styled effect. I have done this by creating a different composition where I cut out my actresses silhouettes but leave her real body in the silohette like so:

I attempted this glitch effect by putting this new layer over my original composition one small second at a time so it flashes up almost like a glitch however I was really struggling with this on After Effects. Since I know how to do this kind of thing on Premiere Pro I decided to import both my After Effects compositions into premiere and create this effect on there like so:

Now that I am really happy with what I have achieved I worked on a sound track for my piece. I decided to go to B-Rec who is a music production company who has worked on sound projects with me before. I Sam Williams the brief of my project and summed up what I was trying to do and he said he would show me some ideas once he had come up with something. He sent some stuff over and we conversed about it and then he sent me a final over once we were both happy with it. He has used a human process of creating all the sounds by hand on his keyboards and synthesizers and then mixed it in a digital way on his computer which again fits the whole theme of this project. I then added this music to my piece trying to make it fit and that has led me to have my final piece completed. Here it is: