Final Pieces

My thoughts, process, hopes and audience participation

Adding clips from other VHS tapes

These clips are from all kinds of VHS tapes i had lying round the house, I took segments of the tapes, cut them out and spliced them together, because i could watch the video and I had opened the top of the VCR I could pick out scenes from the tape and cut out those segments so i knew what footage i was getting. As well as films i also included home videos, just so it added a bit more realism and grounded the footage. I also had some of these where i have created them digitally, then converted to tape added the distortion, then converted them back to digital again.

Test title sequence

Creating my own animation digitally, converting it to tape, using the tweezers when played to add the distortion, then converting the VHS tape back to digital.

Development

VHS Tests

adding authentic distortion with a tweezer

This film was originally shot with a 100 mm macro lens on a canon 650D, the footage was then edited and recorded to VHS. The Tape was then played with the VCR's top cover taken off, I used tweezers to hold the tape at certain points to produce the glitches you see in the video.

The Film is influenced by Nostalgic memories that I have of the VHS cassette, it highlights the malfunctions and problems that the format is known for today.

Original footage

Effects added by using a tweezer

I feel this is a much better way of creating distortion than adding it in After Effects, at least this way i'm affecting the actual tape