I re-watched the videos a few times, and once I finally understood how to use Nuke efficiently, I got to work on making the cinemagraphs. In the end, I turned 5 out of my 6 videos into cinemagraphs: the fifth video was too shaky, and wouldn’t have come out well, so I just used a still image for it.
I compiled all of them into a single video.
I had to film all the shots by hand, as I have no tripod, so they’re all a bit shaky: you can notice irregular movement in all of them. Also, I accidentally filmed them all at a wrong image ratio, which meant I had to crop them all on the sides, which cut out some content. Still, it wasn’t a great loss, and I’m happy of the concept of the video itself; with a bit more practice I’m sure I could do better.
Overall, Visual Effects was very challenging for me: I’m not at all used to video editing, and it’s certainly not what I was expecting to do in the course. But once I got over the frustration of learning how to use Nuke, it proved to be quite fun. In the end, I’m glad I got to try it out through this rotation.