The first task was to create something to cut out - I chose to use myself and to jump, something that would challenge me further than one second of walking around, as I thought this would be too easy to do - I wanted to push myself a bit further so tried to make something that would require a bit more skill to cut out. The first thing would be to trim it down to a second - although this took a long time, I enjoyed doing it because of how relaxing it was - instead of using a mask tool, I used the rotoscoping brush, sort of like the eraser; to gather a style that wasn't as "perfectly" cut out. The slight movement of the brush and editing gives off something that is quite rustic and un-perfect, which is the style I was intending to go for.
I found the most challenging thing out of the concept was to make sure my arm was cut out properly - because of the quality and the angle the film was shot at, it was quite hard to cut out the hands based on how small they were in the video. Similarly, my scarf which at first I thought would look good in the video, was difficult to cut out because of the way it flailed about and made my body look bigger than it was. This is why I then chose to change from a silhouette of the cut out to the contrasting one - removing the background and keeping the detail of my body in.
Overall adding the background and detail was actually the most challenging part of the project. I found that it was hard to come up with a style I wasn't familiar with, particularly textures/colours I'd never used before. Whilst it was challenging to design and do, I do like the piece overall and found the session quite interesting, to learn something I'd never done before.
