The last couple of days have been tough, with lots of help from Kseniya I have managed to learn some AS3. My project now:

1. Pulls in a live web cam feed to the stage.

2. Detects motion.

3. If motion is detected it takes a snapshot.

4. It then applies BlendMode.HARDLIGHT to the captured bitmap. This is so the snapshots can be layered to create a time-based image.

5. An array determines how many are layered at one time. I have currently set it to three.

I now have different variables - tolerance, filters and number of bitmaps - to experiment with. The foundations seem to be in place but it’s not quite complete.