Assignment #4: Masks and Stencils

     I have two mini projects this week because I wanted to try both - masking split screen and stenciling.  The short popcorn piece is a mini-stop motion that I made with a motion text layer on the stencil luma mode, sound included.  

     The split screen piece of Fatima and I in our classroom was filmed by the handy dandy iSight camera in my Mac right after Ben taught us how to do masking. The two movies used had different lighting and made it difficult to match convincingly, so I desaturated both of the layers to smooth the divide even more.  So far I am a big fan of the masking technique and aspire to do a more substantial project in the future (no that I am aware of lighting, framing, and placement issues), like this time freeze mask.

Pahp - Kawhn from Candace Lau on Vimeo.

Rookie Split Screen from Candace Lau on Vimeo.