deathsucker

In the words of Andy:

"I think that the most fun aspect of it was trying to make a visually arresting piece using only footage filmed in a bath using simple natural lighting effects such as from an oil lamp and candles. A recipe for much fun and a lot of mess. Some of the original footage had almost no dynamic range whatsoever, but using After Effect I was effectively able to 'push process' most of the footage to give a gritty and grainy effect that I think complements the music. Overlaid with the footage of the heads, hands and toys under water there are continuously playing tracks of caustic lighting effects and bubbles, hopefully acting as a unifying watery theme. On a technical level it was filmed on PAL DV using a Sony TRV-900E and a Sports housing to film underwater, and all post-production was done on a Dell laptop with a nice fast Maxtor DV hard drive. The footage was re-timed, filtered and heavily regraded using After Effects 4, then layered and edited using Premiere 6. It really is a dream being able reprocess and edit DV quality footage on such a simple system!"