Glitch Effects

Using a tutorial that I found online, I tested a simple glitch effect using after effects that I could use at the end of my draft video as a spectacle. This was influenced on Liane's glitch experimentation and Kate's 3D emboss effect. 

I added a wiggle effect to the displacement map and a random seed for the noise to get the glitch effect to work. 

I then also made separate layers for changing the red green and blue values separately using the shift channels modifier. These were then all connected to the controller empty layer to make it easier when changing the glitch parameters.

Once I was happy changing the parameters, I then added the glitch effect three times to the footage that I chose. I was really happy with the end result and I think it ended up looking very cool.

For the final video, I ended up using this effect two more times as quick glitches. Once in the b-roll footage at the start of the video to hint at what was to come later in the video. 

The second time was when we reveal Dylan's face under the mask. To represent the inner struggles that he is dealing with himself and what that means to him and how he relates to it but also the problems ie. errors that it causes.

When we were making the final video, we chose to use Liane's glitch transition effect for the first close up of the masked character. We thought the distort effect on it went really well with the timing as Dylan is looking up at him from the ground and is disorientated already. We tried using blurs too but this took from the scene and didn't look cohesive with the glitch effect.