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Richmond International Film Festival 2017 Opener
Flow - An experimental art video
For the second year in a row Metro Productions’ sound designer Curtis Brown has been asked by the Richmond International Film Festival to head up the creation of a short opening video to kick off each RIFF screening. And I helped make it!
Most of the end product was actually shot in camera. There was a video projector on set with some abstract video playing that was then projected onto the dancer. My enhancements came in the form of liquid splashes and compositing work. Below are a few behind-the-scenes elements from post-production. Making the girl morph into a splash was done with pure brute force and the AE liquify tools.
2016 Film Festival Opener
The 2017 video was an expansion of the concept produced in 2016. Here is the original 2016 RIFF Opener:
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