This project is designed to be played on a 15m x 2m media board. The theme is 'water and plastic'. The duration of this project has to be in between 2.5 mins-3.5 mins. I created a frame-by-frame animation as a mockup and transferred my ideas to my final project using videos.

Blinking monsters were then being transferred into paper cut-outs. By using blue light and cut-out, I managed to record videos of monster blinking. However, I didn't know how to do a smiling and licking monster by using cut-outs only. Therefore, I had to give up on that idea.

  The concept behind my rendered AV work is about a water pollution happening in the middle of the sea. When the pollution becomes serious, the sea monster grows in quantity. I recorded some videos by manipulating cut-outs in front of an intense light with a blue filter. This allowed me to create videos with shadow movement and blue light. I have recorded videos of my hand acting like a monster, and fish, plastic bag, bottle, and the blinking eye-monster cut-outs. I filmed two videos for the monster, one is a single monster blinking and the other is a few monsters blinking together. I managed to edit them in different parts of my work where different eyes were needed. The toughest part was to keep the quality of the video as I couldn’t adjust the camera while manipulating the cut-outs. To use these videos repeatedly, I rotoscoped the videos in Adobe After Effects. Also, I blurred out the hand video so that it looked more like a monster in the AV work.

  It was difficult to record videos at the beach without using a tripod when the wind was huge. But, I managed to stabilise some of them using the Warp Stabiliser Effect in Adobe Premiere Pro. The pattern of the sea waves was quite interesting and it has helped in creating an under-the-sea atmosphere in my work. I edited the beach video into black and white and used the bottom part of the video as a rubbish mountain in my work. The other two videos I recorded at the same site has inspired me in the brainstorming process, however, I didn’t get to use them in my final work. As the last video in my long video footage, I luckily recorded a video with snow-fall and managed to transform it into a rubbish-fall scene in the final work by using different blending mode.

   For the record, I created a water effect in Adobe After Effect to enhance the sea atmosphere and again recorded and edited my hum as a background music in the final work. Moreover, the sound library that I created beforehand has been used in this piece of work.