Motion Exploration: Glitch Effect

I really like how glitch effects look and so for this motion exploration I wanted to learn how to apply a glitch effect to a project. I decided to apply this to my Static Dynamics project which you can find here. I started off by finding a tutorial, specifically this one. This tutorial applies the glitch effect by using adjustment layers over a glitching video, which the tutorial gives a link to. I downloaded that video and then uploaded it into my project where I continued to follow along with the tutorial—adding an adjustment layer and then applying the displacement effect to that layer. The trickiest part of the project was figuring out the order that the layers had to go in in order to make the effect work. Overall, this is an effect that I really enjoyed using and would use again. I was surprised that you had to use another video to make the effect work, but now that I have the video I can continue to utilize it. I also chose not to make the glitch in this particular project multi-colored because I felt like it didn’t fit the aesthetic of the project, but that is something that I know how to do for future use now.

The glitch video imported into the project before having the adjustment layer applied

I utilized the stopwatch to make the glitch increase in intensity as the end of the video approached

Figuring out the order of the layers was the hardest part, this is the final order which made the effect work. You may notice that I duplicated the glitch video and the adjustment layer so that I could apply the effect in two separate places.

The displacement map effect was used on the adjustment layer to make the effect work.