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Production meeting #2 P2

In our second production meeting we tried to get our scene 1 shot 3 effect walking through a wall, We vaguely knew how we were going to achieve the effect but we did not know how it was going to pan out. Firstly we went to the corridor where we were going to shoot the shot, we filmed 3 shots of each of us running into a wall, We thought this would work. When we got to After Effects it turned out that due to people in the background we could not mask ourselves into the wall as our shot even without ourselves in the shot would have someone in the background. We ended up Re-filming the shot without any background people this worked and we were able to mask edwyn into the wall.
We could have improved how he masked into the wall as there was a line where you could see the layer had been cut, We could of updated this with a blur or a Stock Effects video which would disguise the line. So we decided we need to learn a bit more about the AE effects and more about masks then we will be able to perfect the effects and how good they look.

This is the shot as you can see the line makes the effect look tacky so if i was to add a feathering effect to the Line it would be more legit.

This is with a feathered/blur effect it looks a lot more legit.

visual effects test footage p1

I chose to make edwyn disappear through a wall, although this could be enhanced even more to make it  look more legit this was well for what we did.

Effect sheet

Vfx asset sheet-3 from Casper Brazier

shot list script

Team discussion/master shot list discussion P1

We have discussed all our shots, we have decided to each choose different shots of each of the group members ideas for each shot, and when we come to writing up the master shot list we will each decide on one of our ideas. we each have good ideas for each shots. we have also decided on a few script changes. we have only chosen to do visual effects on shot 3, as most of our first scene is dialog. Shot 3 can contain many students with different powers so we can use 3 visual effects in that shot. A few of our shots are pretty boring as it is just plain dialog, although it sets the rest of the story, and describes to the viewers what the college is.

180 Degrees Rule. P1

THE 180 DEGREE RULE 

The 180 degree rule (Axis of action) is a rule  which a camera man follows by when filming 2 person conversation, this is used so that the viewer does not get confused with whats going on during the scene. As shown in the picture, if filming head on at the actors the blonde actor will always be on the left and the brunette on the right, if switched round to the other side the blonde actor is now on the right and the brunette on the left.

      

                                          

Face Warp p1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNYcRmgS-s
Face warp, pretty weird.

point break sound P1

 The sound for the clip of pointbreak we had was pretty easy to create, was mostly looping the samples we had, although the samples were not very good our sound was still effective. We used a running sample to get the base sound as it also added ambients toward the sound, then for the explosion a loud explosion sound which worked well, although samples for explosions are often not very good quality, then a variety of glass breaking, falling over samples for the last bit of the clip.
We could've improved this by making our own foley sounds to create a more real sample to use for each sound then we could've imported more downloaded ambient sounds off the internet as they didnt matter as much as the sound effects.

p1 second draft

Tweetpitch

My Hero is John although he doesn't really help anyone but himself, he is also the main character. John has no Friends so he goes on a search for friends this is how the story starts and also how he gets into trouble. his new opportunity is the witch which is also his problem, as he thinks the witch can help him with his social difficulties but no she turns him into a slug. his goal is to turn himself back but he needs to find out how to. The conflict is with the witch as she turned him into a slug. #TWEETPITCH

Tweetpitch

My Hero is John although he doesn't really help anyone but himself, he is also the main character. John has no Friends so he goes on a search for friends this is how the story starts and also how he gets into trouble. his new opportunity is the witch which is also his problem, as he thinks the witch can help him with his social difficulties but no she turns him into a slug. his goal is to turn himself back but he needs to find out how to. The conflict is with the witch as she turned him into a slug. #TWEETPITCH

timeline of X-Men 1 Sound p1

The sound on This first clip of x-men 1 was pretty hard to put into a timeline as professor x kept on stopping so i had to keep making new blocks for his colour.

Short story p1

John in a boy who never really had friends but then he moved to the city, the city is dangerous and he must be careful of not using his knife fingers to cut people in the street. John could also talk to Slugs, but he would always chop them in half with his knife fingers. when he starts college he meets a boy, Henry, who could transform into a slug or any other kind of gastropods, as John had trouble talking to people he would ask Henry to morph into a slug when he wanted to talk to him, Henry didn't like this and he quickly got fed up with having to use his humiliating power all the time just to talk to one of his mate. Henry did understand that John had no other friends but this was killing him from the inside out he couldn't do it any more. John had quickly lost his best friend and only friend, he had to do what he could to save his friendly relationship with Henry. John worked out that if he could start speaking to Henry in his normal human form he would not have to change into a slug all the time and get angry so John started on improving his social skills, but John was impatient he needed to do it quick so he went to the college witch to get spells placed upon himself. The college witch was evil towards John she didn't like his dangerously sharp knife fingers so she made John into a slug. John now as a slug he had to find Henry and show him what he had become, although now John was a slug he could not talk to humans but to other slugs. John knew if he caught Henry as a slug he would be able to get out of the whole problem but Henry did not like being a slug. For the next few days John stayed in Henry's backpack hoping that he would get found. John did get found but Henry didn't know what to do with a slug in his backpack what would any normal person do chuck him out, so Henry did he threw John into some dirt. John knew the only way to get back was through the college witch so he went a killed the witch and lifted the spell. Johns life had changed he now had lots of friends and didn't have to worry about being sad any more.

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drive sound effects P1

Drive Sounds.

Sound is very important in many different ways to create many different features to each scene of the movie.  Diegetic sound is just as important as non-diegetic sound to create tension, As the Watch ticks this gives us an idea of the time and how tight time is, and if the robbers run out of time they do not succeed in their robbery. The radio also adds a great deal of importance of diegetic sounds it tells us where the police are and how far away they are, which increases tension. Diegetic sound does not always increase tension it can also relieve tension. The basketball game on the radio shows that Ryan gosling as the get away driver at the same time is not too fussed about the robbery and that these get always are casual for him, but we find out later that he needed to be tuned into the game as he parks in the car park of the stadium and comes out as a basketball fan.

Sound Effects play a big part in adding tension and relieving tension in the scene.

The ticking of the watch sets almost like a tempo which alerts the time and that they’re running out of time due to the 5 minute rule, if the robbers aren’t back in the car with in the time limit Ryan gosling will drive off.  The Radio scanner allows us to know where and how far the Police are away from the Robbery, this increases tension but when Ryan Gosling turns the radio to the Basketball game it seems more casual so we don’t think that its that tense in the scene as Ryan Gosling isn’t bothering about the police.  All the time there is outside sounds like police sirens, car horns these all make us aware of the surrounding happenings, which in some cases can increase tension like the sirens as we are aware police are on their way.

misfits P1

Misfits- The purpose of dialog.

In the first couple of minutes of the 1st series of misfits we meet the characters, and immediately recognise there personality and characteristics of the characters, each character with different trait can give an effect on each person, personalities clash and that causes problems. Through the characters costume design

From the first couple of scenes we can see that Nathan is a cheeky personality, he mocks people and does not think about consequences or he will mock someone where he knows if they start aggression they will be stopped as in the scene with the probation officer he knows the officer will stop any aggression as he does.

 Gary is a character which plays the roll of the ‘badman’ lower class person. he quickly shows his aggressiveness in his first sentence ‘are you looking to get stabbed’ this automatically gives us as viewer the impression that he isn’t afraid of being in danger. Threatening Nathan without evening knowing him means Gary is a unfriendly person. His smug face shows confidence which reflects his rude behavior We can relate Gary and Kelly to both being your average low class people, with rude and immature behavior.

Simon is a very important role in misfits. Throughout the first scene Simon doesn't really talk but when he did he used a quite and soft voice which gives us the impression that he is shy. As we start to build up confusion to why he is here. Low and quite voice perhaps means Simon is scared and uncomfortable with his surroundings. Simons stands way away from everyone else, He clearly does not want to be there and his shyness has taken over control in how he acts.
 Curtis is not afraid to say anything as he knows no one would start on him, he thinks thats he's better than everyone in the group this comes across to us from what he says, Whilst we get a street/urban feel from his accent, and how he acts.

 Alisha likes herself, she clearly is a bit up herself. we could also say she is a "slag" She thinks too highly off herself, and will show off her assets to get attention from boys.

 Kerry is a stereotypical chav she is in a low class family and lives in a bad place. she will take offence most statements, Nathan just picks on her for her voice and she reacts very badly to this, Kerry is a very bad tempered character which is portrayed in her actions and her scripted speech.