MADE WITH &
ON THE PHONE

These are some moments I recorded while I was on the Niesen mountain to record a timelapse of the sunset from the peak.

In this video I just experimented around with random footage I took while walking around at dawn/night in Sigriswil.

After I rode the new coaster at Europa-Park on its opening weekend, I was baffled by how amazing a coaster can be. I instantly fell in love with it and fell down a rabbit hole of coaster science the following days. I've watched all the existing documentaries about it to then proceed to watch all other documentaries about rollercoasters and how they are made. I think it should be clear by now how amazed I was by this coaster, and it's in my nature to make a video about things like this. Unfortunately, I only had my phone as a camera with me, but I tried to make the best of it.

The title of this video are the coordinates of Basel where I recorded the footage for this video on my phone as I walked home to the train station at 8 a.m. after a night out raving with my friends. Back at home I've imported the footage into Adobe After Effects and changed some settings to achieve a nice contrasty black and white color correction. Then I've made an alternative version with the blacks and whites switched and some other minor changes. Next, I needed to determine the BPM of the song I chose for this project, then write a small JavaScript code to switch between the two alternative versions of my color corrections at every beat. After having everything working in sync, I started to manipulate individual pixels based on their color values with the Omino Diffusion Plugin. I've made this for every clip individually and worked a lot with keyframes to have dynamic distortions which I could control. The control was needed to manually sync up my footage even further to more complex parts than just the 4 on the floor beat which I've automated already. I wanted to make a video for this song for a long time as it was one of my favorite techno songs since it came out in 2016. All of my videos really only make sense with music on, but this one really only makes sense when watched with music on. So feel free to click on the video above to get to the video with sound and have fun.