Delicious (2004) - was produced a week after Air for the same class. This time the restictions were lifted slightly. The camera still had to be locked down but we were allowed approximately 45 or so seconds for the duration. This time we were given the subject matter of food on which to make a video.

I decided to expand my horizons, and use the assignment as a platform to see if I could make color adjustments to the video. I had heard that Adobe After Effects filters opperated in a similar way to Adobe Photoshop, but for video instead of still images.

I had a general idea of what I wanted for the video, and asked a friend, the lovely Tamara Hill-Tanquist, if she would model for the short. I asked her to bring some food to eat on camera, and I would take care of the rest.

The original tone of the video was very blue, and I made several adjustments to give the video a much warmer tone, filled with oranges and reds. For the shot of the apple, I used some key effects to isolate the apple and only push those colors brighter, forming a contrast between it and the background.

However I wanted to push some of the colors even further, particularly Tamara's lips. I used a similar process as with the apple (though the colors of her lips ranges across a broad spectrum of colors, so I had to repeat the process fourteen or fifteen times) keying out those specific colors for a warmer palet placed behind, giving her lips a more reddish color. The timing of the filters actually got out of sync for a few frames, and you can see this warmer palet for about a third to a half a second at the end of the last shot that Tamara appears in.

Then I asked my friend Matt Chorpenning, for whom I had drawn several illustrations for playbills for plays he had written, if he would play some music for the video. He happily agreed. Matt and I later collaborated on quite a few other projects, and he appears in the documentary spoof, Atlantis.

Of the video itself, during the in-class critique, a friend of mine, and a fine illustrator, Chris Flanagan said of it that, "it's like a commercial for eating, it makes you want to eat."

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