Sprit of Soho

  • Troy Dias
Sprit of Soho

This project is all about ‘soho’ the project requires us to make a promotional video about Soho; it should contain aspects about soho and what make soho? Basically. This project took us 9 weeks to complete and a tone of photography work. The project is a competition were the winner of the competition will get to show there work on a screen is divided into 27 rectangles, so we had to make the video so it fits the screen.
This project was a grouped basic project. My group contained 3 people including me. Our objectives were to ‘make a promotional video for the competition’. First we discussed what the videos format was going to be; what I mean by this is was it going to be a slid show type of video or was is going to be a walking simulation type of video. We ended up picking the walking concept, as it felt like it was an out of the box idea. What do we need to make it out standing? That was the question that we asked our self, so we decided to use photos instead on film as we thought it would be out of the box concept. After I got the images I stared making them into layer in Photoshop and put them in after effects to make a video out of them; it took a long time.
The finished video is very complex and took me a lot of time to make and I am quit pleased with the finished product, I wish that I had a better grasp of after effects, and Photoshop as I felt that I could have made the video a bit more interesting that it is now, but I am still happy with the video I produced.
I really liked the way that I used the images to make the waking illusion with layer, it gives it that augmented reality feel to it. The video is very bright and vibrant in color, it has a lot of moving parts that gives the video life and makes it looks one of a kind. I love the end part of the video where the soho text is shown in a neon text; this makes it look very eye catching and interesting, it leaves you with a ‘wow’ text around your eyes.
I thought that the execution of this video could have been a bit better in a sense that it could have been more professional looking and more realistic feeling; it felt like it was a slide show shown side ways. I really wanted to make the neon text a bit more realistic and interesting. I could have made the sky and the ground looks more interesting and not slapped on like a really crappy slide show.
All in all I am happy and pleased with my self in creating such a good-looking video. I felt like I completed it in the time I was given and made an outstanding video.