Documenting The Doing #10: Technicolour Yawn

Technicolour Yawn? Another word for vomit, basically. This weeks production was to film a member of the group pretending to be sick everywhere and we would have to Photoshop the contents of the vomit in for the final production. For once, this video was about the editing rather than the filming, which I was really looking forward to as I prefer to edit than film. We were shown an example of a Technicolour Yawn created by a few Japanese students and this was the inspiration behind the project. We had to use our own creative minds to decide what type of 'vomit' we'd do.

(Without blowing my own trumpet, I kind of know Photoshop like the back of my hand so this production and the editing concept was right up my street.)

We had to go into small groups as it was this video was more about the editing that the filming. We filmed with a Canon 600D and a tripod. It was quite a straight forward filming process as the footage was only about 10 seconds long.

Screen caps of 3 stages throughout our Technicolour Yawn

I was in a pair with Lauren, and we really wanted to be different and step out of our comfort zones and create the vomit to the best of our ability. We're both really in to the Marvel films, and seeing as this was just a quick project, we'd make the vomit different segments of Marvel. I began with importing the photos from Google Images into photoshop. I tried my best to find images that had either a transparent or white background so it would be easier to cut out the characters. I used the magic wand tool to delete the white background so it would be clearer and more professional in the final production. 

Editing the original images - 2 step background deleting

When we had deleted the backgrounds on the images that needed editing, we began creating the final animation. We had to individually insert the images one-by-one, and each frame we had to make them move slightly, so they would eventually end up off of the screen come the end of the production. The elements of the whole production were to spin in opposite directions to make it all look very random, and I think we achieved that in some respects.

OUR FINAL PRODUCTION: TECHNICOLOUR YAWN - MARVEL THEME

Although the production as a whole took about 3 hours in total to edit, to footage was only about 5 seconds long altogether. Looking back, I should have probably imported it into Adobe Premier Pro and slowed the whole thing down a tad to make it last longer. As it was so short we decided to add the Marvel soundtrack over the top for more effective noise, and add the traditional Marvel logo at the end of the film (always seen in the Marvel films). 

Overall, I really liked the concept of this production and I think if I had the chance to do it again, I would make the editing slightly less complicated so I could make the footage longer in the final production. I would also keep some of the background noise (the sound of Jade vomiting...) hearable, but fade it out a tad just so it isn't too hard.

Cheerio. :o)

- Olivia.