week 5

What i’m going to present next week for class crit: i’m going to show, the clips i recorded over the weekend and edited in after effects; maybe one short clip, showing the silhouettes with my products, a basic idea of my product, Depending on how quick i can edit in After-Effects, due to the fact i can only do it at college. However on wednesday i have two vocational lessons which should give me enough time to complete at least one scene to present to the class.

This video shows me experimenting with silhouette, trying to decide whether i should make it a silhouette like i did for the James Bond project or leave it the way i filmed it. I also had to decide what my background should look like, so i started with different colours and finally decided to go with a 3D dimension as my background.

This video shows me experimenting with the different ways that the character could interact with the object. This scene shows the enemy demonstrating how much the shield could withstand with any attack; at the time of me filming, I was only halfway when i realised that i had forgotten my green screen i the background.

On the fifth week I began experimenting on the different camera angles I could use and the different ways I could get my model to interact with the objects. The first time i began shooting, i didn’t use a green screen; so when i began test the scenes in After Effects, i had to use the rotobrush tool for every frame, which did consume most of my time but it did what i needed, which was to mask the background, so i only had the model. Taking what I learned from the first shoot, i brought the green screen with me when i did another shoot; and this time when i was editing in after effect, it was quick and easy to do because i only had to use key-light, which removes the colour green with in the scene, hence the use of a green screen.

This scene, shows my dad stomping his foot, i asked him to do this because i believed i needed a way to activate the bag, but in the end i didn’t use this scene, because it was at the wrong angle and i couldn’t find a way to bind this scene with the others and find a effect that would make the shield appear.

This is a scene that i might consider using; it took me awhile to use the rotobrush for each frame in this video. I wished i had thought of using my green screen for this to make it look more effective which is why i am reluctant to use this shot.

I liked the camera angle in this scene, however i couldn’t make it fit naturally with the 3d background because it was stationary, so the shot would be cut off and glide across the screen; i had this same problem when i did a 360 around the model, the camera would shake and the tracking would effect it because the scene would float into the air.