Insect Repellent Advert - Finished version

Right click and open in new tab on the still above to see a low quality version of the film.

Production thanks to:

Edward Allan - actor
Matt Choules - acting and crewing
Russell Tanham - Voice acting and foley
Adrian Snodgrass - use of flat at an inconvenient time

What I need to find out is how to convert video clips into web friendly versions without loosing so much quality. The horizontal lines that appear during movement seem to be a familiar characteristic that occur after file converting.
I tried using an AVI to SWF converter which was a bit more dynamic than Flash itself but still did not achieve the required level of quality.
See any depict shortlist (http://www.depict.org/shortlists/206) for a good bench mark of what the level of quality should be.

Client short follow up - Static & Noise example

Moon Shot UK by James Harris

A good example of the use of static and noise to depict time elapse of an undetermined length:

http://www.depict.org/shortlists/206/


It's actually very convincing transmission break up with varying degrees of static, flicker, buzz and white noise.
Will try to find out from the makers how it was achieved.

I got my static burst in Insect Repellent from an old VHS tape which has break up between programs. I recorded it from VHS to Mini DV and then captured into Premier. Problems arose during the transfer because the player seemed to automatically cut out static break up in order to keep quality high. Luckily for me this cleaning process is not perfect and a short burst - maybe 1 second - was recorded onto the DV tape. This was enough to use in the advert.
A more controlled and deliberate creation of the affect (as I presume was done in the above "Moon Shot" video) would be what I would want if I were to use the affect again.