last production meeting. VFX P1

We need to finish filming with Tim Whitaker as his timetable is tight we have not had that much time with him but time is getting tight so we need to get it filmed quick especially as Edwyn and Anni are going to NY. We also need to finish the editing with all three effects, complete a audio track within garage band as then we can avoid messing about with any copyrights as we'll be using our own soundtrack, we'll need to perfect the slow motion effects with more key frames to make sure it is as clean as possible and there are no lines where you can tell that the layers have been composited/masked.

Rough cut Peer Feedback P1

From my Rough cut feedback all i really got from it was that i need to finish the edit as it was not finished when uploaded.
I also should take some more time making my masks on my effects better so it doesn't look bad around the edges of the mask.

roughcut P1

Due to After effects to premiere problems, my rough cut was not finished. sounds not finished i just had to upload what i had.

Post production.

Post production houses are companies which do work for clients such as Video mastering, Graphics design and digital imaging. Clients range from musicians to film makers. And they work with their client to produce the perfect possible product to create great results. An example of a post production house.

ILM has been co-operating with film companies for 35 years, working and designing special effects for many famous films. ILM has achieved 23 Sci-tech awards, 15 oscars and 275 films using just their own company also working with film companies. The company design and create special effects for films (visual effects) Some of the work that they develop includes: digitalising cartoons, enhancing stage make-up for example: Star wars: VII the ILM team used the original costumes made and enhanced them to create more of a realistic and intense costume. ILM was founded in 1975 by a man called George Lucas who also owns Lucas film and is the creator of the well known film Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana jones films. By making special effects, the company designs special features for a movie which creates an out of this world/ futuristic for the audience to adapt and inspire new ideas as a general entertainment for viewers of the century.

Tim fliming

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Misfits analysis P1

Misfits analysis:
we are introduced to the characters in the first episode we can see that each character are either stereotypical types of people such as Chav or slag, although a couple of the characters are more quiet or just seem more normal compared to the other stereotypes. Special effects are used although they're a bit cheesy such as the storm and the characters falling over with the blank black background. other special effects were small such as the hail stones the size of tennis balls although they were done well.
The sound effects:
first of all it was everyday noises which where in the first episode apart from the stormy weather and the big hail coming down from the sky and hitting the ground these noises would've needed to be added in afterward as they were special effects, foley sound or computer generated sounds would've been needed to create this sound.

Today,

Today we recorded shot 1 and 2.
1 was easy to do as it was a still establishing shot of the college although by the time we had took the shot it was dark so i had to add colour correction.

We took the second shot although due to us being a "noise issue" we could not complete the shot.

Left window is unedited with no effects. right with curves colour correction.

Health and Safety P1

Today we had a chat with gary woolley the safety man at long road about how we should take health and safety in to consideration when filming around the college. we should not climb on unsteady objects such as the rotten bench. We were also told that we should be careful about slipping on many surface's such as moss on the floor and on the bricks. Although its common sense, he told us not to climb on top of the college to film, we could fall and break bones.. Same for trees.
Mud was another problem as it was slippery as Gary said he had slipped in his garden and broken his ligaments.

matte painting. P1

Matte painting is where a artist will paint a 2 dimensional picture, and the picture will be filmed behind several 3 dimensional elements to give it depth. Its a alternative to the green screen although this method does not need extra editing after filming the raw footage because the background is filmed and not put in at the editing stages.

How did matte painting develop?
Matte painting started off by artists using paints or pastels on a big glass screen so it could be put into live footage. Big scenes could not be created by props or scenery.
In 1907 Norman Dawn developed the technique so he could combine a photograph and painting to improve the environment taken by the camera. Films in the 1900's have been using Matte painting before green screening there was no Chroma keying software about, so being able to film a scene or shot with the background already painted in was the main option for many film producers.

3 examples.

A well known matte painted movie scene was the tractor beam sucking in the rebel ship into the empire's star destroyer in the first star wars.

in the mid 80's computer generating graphics allowed matte painters to work digitally on computers.
Chris Evans in 1985 for Sherlock Holmes made a painting for a scene featuring computer generated animation, it was a animation of a night jumping through a stained glass window.

In 1990 Die Hard: die harder was the first film to use digitally composed live-action footage with a traditional glass matte painting which had been photographed and scanned into a computer,
 it was the last scene which took place on a airport runway.

Xmentimeline

Safety sheet

V health _safety from Casper Brazier

QA

Disaster
Q2. Will the examiner read every sheet in our folder to make sure it makes sense. Yes they will.
Minor
Q8. Will we have enough lesson time to render our finished videos as edited videos can take days to render? Render early enough.
Q3. What if the actors don't do their jobs well? Make sure you employ someone who you know can do the job and won't mess about.
Q5. What if the overall sequence doesn't look good? Keep a Editable file to make sure after render you can edit.
Q7. Worried about not being good at filming the footage. Practise before hand or a simple fix is use a tripod.
inconvenient
Q1. Worried about no being able to do effects. Other members can do effects and help out.
Q4. What if work isn't finished on time? Work tight to the schedule do not go off track.
Q6. The amount of shot we have compared to the scenes(2). the photoanamatic will show the shots so look back at it before recording.
Q7. Worried about not being good at filming the footage. Practise before hand or a simple fix is use a tripod.

Casting notes

Characters:
Felix- Edwyn John
Felix is a innocent teen-age boy with a power but has no use of it he doesn't think anything of it although he is very ambitious in getting a use for his power.
Professor Albatross - ????
The professor is a happy guy although there is a dark side to him but also a dark side to the college we need someone old, who can play a enthusiastic old professor yet at the same time will be evil and has a all powerful power.
Dr. albitum- Anni sims
She's a happy enthusiastic teacher although she has another side to her and this needs to show in the actors personality although she has to be innocent at the same time like she knows although she doesn't.

Production meeting #1 P1

Roles/discrete roles.
We decided to put casting and discrete roles together as we will need to find people to do roles as well as discrete roles.
We are still in the process of finding people to play in our movie introduction, we do not have a clue in who we want to get to play although we have a vague idea of the personalities we need for our characters. We will need a Sly professor someone who you can see has a separate personality which we can tell that there is other side to his character. For Felix we need someone who seems innocent although is ambitious and can achieve a friendly personality easily. For Dr. Albitum we need a friendly woman who also seems a bit weird and has more to her than what she appears to be as the college has a different side to what is actually is we need to achieve this through the characters personalities.
For our discrete roles we need just random students/teachers just to fill the shots and in our second scene we will not need any extra roles as it'll be in the principals office and no outside.
Schedule: