persuasion by throbbing gristle

The following video was made on a Nikon D7000 with a sigma dc ex macro hsm lens in a single 5 minute long recording of dust flying around a lamp in the studio and fluctating between aperture settings and focal points.

The first thing I did was convert the footage to ProRes 422 for importing into FCP 7 then desaturate 100%, adjust the Brightness to 38 and the contrast to 18 before inverting the RGB channels. The speed was slowed down to lengthen the duration to 6 minutes 36 seconds. The video track got copied and put over itself upside down. The desaturation was taken away and the V2 track was then composited with the screen setting and took down the opacity to 44% then rendered.

I wanted to bring the flying of dust particles into a more watery place to see how the movements could possibly mimic schools of fish.