Silence
Creative Designer Statement
Light and color are two inseparable things. Light produces color, color makes the light more vivid, and the world we see and perceive becomes more vivid and vibrant because of the presence of light and color. Different colors and light intensity can affect our perception of the world, and rich colors can make us feel more inside.
However, a group of people in this world whose perception of color is limited is the colorblind population. Color blindness is the inability to perceive colors normally or to see differences between specific colors. Many people think that colorblind people cannot see any stains, but most colorblind people can perceive many particular colors, and very few people are genuinely entirely colorblind. Although most people with color blindness can see some specific colors, they are very different from what we see in the world.
For example, people with red-green color blindness, born with a lack of green or red cone cells, see the world predominantly in yellow and blue. These two colors are in contrast to each other. Because people with red-green color blindness cannot perceive different colors, these two colors stand out in their visual world, causing them to feel sick when they see certain foods because of their color. Some people may even think that some foods look like poo. In contrast, the visual world of blue color-blind people who lack blue cone cells is much softer than that of red-green color-blind people, whose visual world is dominated by pink and cyan.
I have created four videos to show the contrast between the three color-blind people's perspectives and our ordinary people's perspectives so that viewers can experience the color-blind world and the incredible sensation of visual differences and so that more people can better understand the color-blind people and feel the diversity of the visual world at the same time.
Production Design Process
In my project, I divided the production steps into three parts to experiment, explore, and complete the video.
Step1. Shooting the video footage.
I started by recording some ideas for my video design in my iPad notes and drawing some illustrations to expand on my thoughts. Afterwards, I spent the mid-term break shooting scenes with my iPhone 12 pro max for a day. I used the camera that came with the phone to capture some of the beautiful moments in my life as I saw them. I love the sea, and the sound of the sea breeze and waves brings peace to my soul, so I shot a lot of my video footage on the beach. The color of food can be uncomfortable for some color-blind people, so I also shoot close-ups of food and eating to put into my videos for comparison afterwards. The sky also changes color beautifully and is at its most colorful when the sun sets, so I also recorded some scenes of the atmosphere.
Step2. primary video production
My video is mainly divided into two parts, animation, and live action; I finished the live action in step1, and the second step was to draw the animation that needed to be integrated into the video. My animation is divided into two parts, a panorama and an eye close-up. For the panorama, I created a colored background, then used the paint bucket tool on the top layer to lay down a full side of black, then used the eraser to create lines to simulate a scratch painting style, and then used procreate animation to assist with the dynamic adjustments. The second part, the close-up of the eyes, was also created using procreate's animation aid. I then imported the two animations into videoleap and integrated them with the filmed live-action footage. To highlight the color changes, I added different filters to each US close-up. I used the colour adjustment tool to increase the saturation of the colors, selecting shots that I thought could be linked through the colour changes to achieve a coherent association. At the same time, I used the dynamics of the waves in the video to articulate the colour changes and to make them more natural.
Step3. Color blind visuals recording
Once the main video was finished, I uploaded it to YouTube. I then opened the color blindness expansion plugin for chrome to record different video versions with color blindness.
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