The video that I chose is “Three Transitions” by Peter Campus. In the first scene of this video, a Campus walks on screen with his back facing the camera. He then begins cutting into the background but when he’s cutting, it’s an illusion and it appears as if he’s cutting into his back. A hand, presumably the Campus’ hand, protrudes from the cut and as the he sticks his head in his head is also coming out facing the camera. Campus then tapes up the background and walks off. This scene was very well done. When I first watched this, I was very confused and didn’t understand the purpose of this. After watching it a few times, I began to appreciate it a bit. Campus’ technique and ability to create this illusion is very clever. I’ve never seen this done in any tv show or movie that I’ve before.
In the second scene, it appears as if Campus is applying cream onto his face. But, each portion of his face that he’s applying this “cream” disappears and underneath is his face again. This particular scene was a little unsettling for me at first because I didn’t know what was going to be underneath that first layer. Also, I feel this scene in a way shows how in society we often have this mask that we wear to cover our true selves and true intentions. Sometimes we can’t be who we want to because of fear of being judged.
The third and final scene shows Campus holding a piece of paper that has his “reflection” on it. He then takes a match and burns the paper and you just see the paper rapidly burning and his reflection disappearing as it burns. The illusions in all three scenes were all very well done. They leave you scratching your head a bit trying to figure out how the artist is able to do it.
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