grungy, grainy video effect

I wanted to degrade a video to black and white and give it a grainy effect. Here's what I started with:


I then used the following settings to extract the color from the image:


The image then looked like this:


I then applied a histogram effect, tweaking the red/blue/green channels only allowing the higher frequencies:



To give the image a grainy look:


However, the grains looked too sharp, so I applied a blur using a pixel width of 8:


To this result:


Here's a test video (4.7MB):
test video

The next experiment will tweak the audio for additional weirdness.

using the histogram function to turn on the light

Wow. I used the histogram function to lighten up a dark video. It really did wonders. I simply changed the Value parameter as in the graphic below:


Here are the results. Before applying histogram:

After applying histogram:


Test videos:
Before
(3Mb)
After
(4Mb)

Reference
Here are two articles on histograms and their purpose. The second taught me a great deal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_histogram
http://www.illustratedphotography.com/photography-tips/basic/contrast