Bad shots replaced with good P1

2-1 Before

   

This shot is not an idea, good shot as you can't see the characters clearly and is not in focus.

                                                                           2-1 After

        

This shot is much better as their is nothing in the way of the characters and you can see them clearly. 

4-2 Before

      This is a bad shot due to the lighting on the characters is to much and doesn't look like the frame is more focused on the them rather then the whole shot.

4-2 After

 

This shot is better than previous due to the character being the parent of the shot. But you then could argue and say that the poster on the left make the shot bad as you don't need it in frame but then it works because it is in like with the other poster on the right and looks linear and does not descract you from what you are really looking at.

5-2 Before

This shot is unclear to what you are suppose to be looking at and also what it is frame as you have irrelevent things in frame like the computer screen don't need to be there, which they are distracting you from what you are really meant to be focusing on. 

5-2 After

This is a much better shot as the lens is focused on the parent of the shot and their is nothing distracting you from what you they want you to look at, which is the character.

5-3 Before

 

This is a terrible shot as you can see the camara flash which makes it look amature and there is alot more going on in from which discracts you from what you want the audience to looka at.

5-3 After

This is a much improved shot as you only see what the cinematographier wants you to see.

6-8 Before

The haracter are not clear at all and their are alot of irrelevent things in frame that descracts you from the main, their is alot of space in the frame aswell. 

6-8 After

   

     This is a much better shot as you can see more clearly what is going on. The charcter are much clearer here aswell. Although the tree is in shot and the bulding is wonky the character could of filled the frame more, the shot is much better than previous.

8-3 Before

   

This shots lighting is not very good due not not see the characters properly as the background light is alot more vibrant than  foreground.

8-3 after

 

The character stand out alot more in this shot and their is nothing to descract you from what you are meant to be looking at. 

I have replace the bad shots with better and improved shots to improve the quality of the over all film and the shots themselves.

6 images that are Bad P1

the subject is in the middle of the frame and the framing is abit out as you can see the side parts of the wall which distracts u from the subject.

Their are too many things in the frame that distracts you from what you are actually looking at like the posters, lockers and frames pictures.

The framing isn't straight, you can tell my the lines of the window if the picture was tilted a little bit it might of made it look better. 

Subject is in the centre of the frame which auto balances the picture but doesn't look interesting or good.

The background of the image take your attention away from what you're meant to be looking at. 

The subject in the images is blurred and isn't very clear at all.

6 images that are Good P1

The frame is completely filled and the diagonal lines from the photo frames lead your eye line to the subjects.

Nothing in the back ground to distract you from the subject.

Blurred background gives you more of an effect as you focus more on the subject in the photo because that is the only thing in focus. 

The back ground in blurred and the for ground in focused which doen't distract you fromt he subject and the frame is completely filled.

The frame had been filled and the rule of 3rd apply as all 3 sections has all been filled in the frame. 

The background is the same, could be called plain as it all the same and nothing distract you from the subject.

P1. ANALYSING YOUR CINEMATOGRAPHY

RESEARCH ROTOSCOPING P2

A true pioneer of animation, Max Fleischer produced the Popeye and Betty Boop animated series, as well as the animated features “Gulliver’s Travels” and "Mr. Bug Goes to Town."

With his brother Dave, he founded the Fleischer Studios in the early 1920’s, which offered a less sentimental animated vision of the world than the rival Disney studio. Perhaps most importantly, Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that changed the look of animation forever.

During the 1930s, the Fleischers found themselves in an on-going competition with another animator -- Walt Disney. The Fleischers and Disney constantly raced one another to each new milestone in animation -- first sound cartoon, first color cartoon, and first feature. But according to Max Fleischer’s son, Richard Fleischer, Max and Dave often came in second, largely because the studio behind them, Paramount, didn't offer the support they needed.

While the technique is useful for animation, rotoscoping eventually became an important tool for visual effects in general. From the 1940s through the 1960s, U.B. Iwerks, a well-known animator, turned to effects work, where he pioneered the use of the rotoscope on films such as Alfred Hitchcock's “The Birds” (1963).


Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. When trying to rotoscope an image you can use After Effects.


For this effect you will need three different shots, you will need the shot when the character first walks into the scene (1), then you will need when he is acting as if he is invisible (2) and also a background shot without the character in it.

1. Rotoscope the character out of the shot number 2 using the rotoscope brush. 
2. Turn the background layer into a composition layer. 
3. Then right-click the composition layer and select composition settings.
4. Select the preset – 1080p HD Film settings. 
5. Make sure that Lock Aspect Ratio is ticked. 
6. Change width to 1920*1.25. Then select okay. 
7. Go to the Effects & Presets search bar and type in Displacement, drag Displacement Map onto the background layer. 
8. Go to the Effect Controls and change Displacement Map to '2. Effect'. 
9. Then Ctl Shft C to pre comp the layer. Call it actor and untick the box. 
10. Go back to Effect Controls and see that the '2. Effect' has been changed to '2. Actor', change the colour to Luminance. 
11. Set the Max Horizontal box to 55. 
12. Set the next colour box underneath also to Luminance. Set the Max Vertical to 55. 
13. Shut off the Effect layer (2) and you can now see that the character is gone but has left behind its shape. 
14. In effects and presets search bar type contrast. Padlock composition layer, do this with padlock at the top & switch box below to actor. 
15. Click on the actor composition tab, drag the brightness and contrast the to effect layer. 
16. Put the contrast level to 55, close the actor composition tab.

Shot location Reece P1

file structure P1

Finished Animatic P1

Working between Premier and After Effects P1

There are a few ways in which you can do this, toy an put your Premiere Peo footage into After Effect by simple highlighting the images and clicking 'File' - 'Export' - 'Media' then select the right format that you need and then simply click export. 

When you want to put the clips into After effects you have to highlight all the clips then right click and click replace with 'After effects composition'

The final way in which you can transfer the footage from Premier to After Effects is to select all of the clips by selecting first one, holding down Shift and then selecting the last one. You then need to hold and drag the clips holding down alt which will then duplicate the footage to wherever you are taking it to. This will then duplicate the full sequence into After Effects.

Breakdown sheets P1

Production design - part one P1

Matte painting research P1

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows film-makers to create the illusion of an environment that is non-existent in real life or would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or visit. 

Here is a Matte painting of Iron Man of the stark industries.

Here is an example of a use of matte painting, it is used to create a scene or location that isn't real. This matte painting is a good example as its a good picture and could be quite a famous matte painting, the effect works really well and you don't notice it being a painting in the actually film but yet still give you an effect or realism. 

The first know matte painting shot was made in 1907 by Norman Dawn, who improvised the crumbling California Missions by painting them on glass for the movie Missions of California. He developed a technique that joined together a Photographer and a painting to enhance the environment that is being shot by the camera.

In the 1980's Matte painting was a from of CGI and was used on computers which highly developed to allow film makers to interact with the digital world.
By the 1990s the digitally composited live-action footage was used, the first film to used it was the well known Die hard 2. It worked well in this film and was brilliant for its time,
you don't notice that the scenery are paintings when you're watching it, unlike old films with the amateur matte paintings like western film

 when you can always see the effect happening on screen.

Green screen research P1

A green or blue background in front of which moving subjects are filmed and which allows a separately filmed background to be added to the final image.

Here is an example of green screen being used, this photo was from the film Avengers Assemble.

In 1898 'Four Head Are Bette Than One' film created by Georges Méliès performed the first visual effect which we now call green screen

The matte technique was used again on Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 The Great Train Robbery but this time not as magic trick but to create the effect of being on a train and realism which would of probable been a very successful film in its time as there wasn't anything like it, it was like magic in those times.
 

In the modern world Green screen is used nearly all the way through films, films these days could not develop or be near as good as they are without this technique, it is used all over the world and for nearly everything you see in films.

The blue screen method was developed in the 1930s at RKO Radio Pictures.

In 1950, Warner Brothers employee and ex-Kodak researcher Arthur Widmer began working on an ultraviolet travelling matte process. He also began developing bluescreen techniques: one of the first films to use them was the 1958 The Old Man and the Sea.
 


In this clip green screen would of be used through the whole clip as it creates a real feel of danger and excitement. Using this green/blue screen there were able to do make the suit change from a suitcase to the full body suit and this effect work really well and you don't even notice is a special visual effect.

They demonstrate in this clip how much green and blue screen is used, once you see this clip you'll never look at TV the same again. The use of Chroma key, which is the process of elimnating the green/blue and replacing it with something that you wish is a very good and effective technique to used as you can't tell the difference between what is real and what isn't. Their isn't a specific example to refer to in the film as all of it, it just amazing to watch and to observe, it opens your mind up to wonder to what extent to what you really see and hear on TV and film are real?

Green is currently used as a backdrop more than any other color because image sensors in digital video cameras are most sensitive to green, mimicking the human eye's increased sensitivity to green light. Therefore, the green camera channel contains the least "noise" and can produce the cleanest key/matte/mask. Bright green has also become favored since a blue background may match a subject's eye color or common items of clothing such as jeans.

Blue was preferred as a backdrop before digital keying became commonplace because of the existence of high contrast film that was sensitive only to the blue color.

A detailed history of Green screen:
http://zephyrphotoworks.com/greenscreenDetail/136

Scott's character bio, mood board and model P1

Location shot recce p1

Anamatic Review P1

Amy Brown's review of my Anamatic.

The Narrative doesn't really make sense as the voice for the characters changes through out the sequence making it to confusing to understand. It is not easy to see where the SFX fits in, from watching the sequence i am not completely sure where about the special FX takes place and also what they are. The dialogue is not very engaging and quite dry and is isn't very enthusiastic and need more enthusiasm added it to the speech of the actors. Many of he shots at the begging of the clips are quite long and boring to follow. I think there need to be more shots added into the beginning to make it more interesting. There sequence could be improved by adding more shots and make sure that the characters keep the same voices through out the sequence. By using more movement in to Anamatic it would much improve the the technical quality of whole Anamtic sequence.

Anamatic P1

File structure P1

After Effect Tennis ball Youtube P1

How to use the image after filming it on green screen.

1. Open After Effects and find the footage that you want to work with. (You need to make sure that the work is in the 'timeline'.)
2.  Click on the video in the timeline panel to work with it in the composition panel. This way, the rotoscoping you perform will only affect this one layer.
3. You also need to make sure that the marker is positioned at the first frame of the clip. The magic wand is located on the top tool bar. It works very similarly to the quick selection tool in photoshop.
4. Use the mouse and move the magic wand around the object that you want to select. You should notice a pink outline forming around the object that you are trying to select. This means that you image is being automatically grabbed. 
5. You need to make sure that you look over the frame very carefully to ensure that the entire subject is being grabbed, making sure that no pieces are being missed as this would make the footage look very ineffective. 
6. You then need to tell magic wand  what you don't want to cut out of the frame. To do this you hold down alt and paint across the background with the mouse.

Storyboard P1

Production meeting 2 P1

Today we had a team production meeting, me, Amy and Steven discussed what went wrong with the shots and editing. We come to a conclusion that we should change that was that we do the tennis ball effect like with the shots types that we used. When we re do the tennis ball effect we will do two over the shoulder shots, one from the ball throwers side and the other from the person who stops the ball, there side. We are going to do it this was as i think it would be easier to edit the tennis ball in and would have a greater effect.

When is come to After effect we did struggle a bit as we couldn't get the tennis ball the same color that it would of been and also we needed to blur it more than we did as in the shot that the tennis ball appears it a panning shot so the background is quite blurry and the ball stood out to the blur and looked un natural and you could nearly make out that it was animated. We will still still use the same equipment that such as the blue screen but we wil just change the shots that we used.

We have decided on who is doing each effect, Stephen is going to learn how to do the visual effect were in the opening scene Sam is floating so Stephen is going to learn how to make someone float. Amy is going to do the invisible person visual effect, she will have to learn how to do that, but that is probably the easiest effect to do because you will need use mostly colour correction. Then I am doing the tennis ball effect, i'll just have to change some of the shoots i used and hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to edit in after effects.

The only props that we need is a tennis ball, blue screen and green screen.

Script location & shot location P1

VFX assets sheets. P1

Visual effects research P1

6:6 The tennis ball slows down in mid air and hits the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeolQAgVG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdlLYqKFrw



6:11 Max goes invisible so that the ball just goes right through him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeolQAgVG4

6:12 Max reappears laugh at Scott because he hit him when he was invisible.

Finished script P1

Master shot list discussion P1

1:1 Mid shot (Luke)
2:1 POV Walking along corridor (Luke)
3:1 POV long shot (Amy)
3:2 Mid shot of girls (Amy)
3:3 Over the shoulder shot (Stephen)
4:1 Tracking shot (Luke)
5:1 Long panning shot (Stephen)
5:2 Close up
5:3 Mid shot
6:1 Long shot (zoom)
6:2 mid shot (Stephen)
6:3 close up(Stephen)
6:4 mid shot(Stephen)
6:5 close up(Stephen)
6:6 mid shot(Stephen)
6:7 long shot
6:8 mid shot
6:9 mid shot
6:10 over the shoulder
6:11 long shot
6:12 long shot
6:13 mid shot
6:14 long shot mid shot
6:15 over the shoulder

Team production meeting P1

Me, Amy and Steve attended out team meeting and we discussed who's script we was going to use and decide if we was just going to use one script or merge two script together. In the end we decided to use Amy script but with parts of Steven script added in to it.

180 degree rule P1

180 degree rule is the rule were if filming or using  a camera you stay on one side of an invisible line, if this rule is broken and you cross over the line, it could create confusing for the audience watching the video as it looks like the people in the shot has switch sides and does not look right.

If you look on the diagram and look at the bottom right picture of the over the shoulder shot of the blue person, the blue person is on the right and then if you look at the top right picture, because the camera has broken the rule and gone over the 180 degree line it looks like the two characters has switched sides and this will most of the time cause confusing with the audience. In some films they do break the rule but make it work well as it is hard to pull of.

Revision script P1

Character Bio P1

Tom

Born 1st March 1996

Born and grown up in Cambridgeshire.

He i 5ft10" brown hair and green eyes, he isn't very built as he is quit short and weak and has a ectomorphic body build.

Like drum and bass music and like fantasy books.

Friends are James and Leo and James is a big built popular student, who exceeds in school and who live and home with him brother and married parents. Leo lives with his Dad and goes to his Mum's every weekend to see her and his little sister.

Tom was involved in a car accident 5 years ago he was not injured but his older brother was killed in it.

His parent have split up and he has lost touch with his Dad which is his male role model.

This characters story goal is to discover the blue crystal and is the first character to discover that they all have powers. He stays in the story because his discovers that he has powers and expands on that during the rest of the story. Tom is quite a low confident, quiet character who doesn't hve much friends or popularity except the friends he has is the story which is James and Leo.

James

Born 16th January 1996

He grew up in Oxfordshire and moved down the Cambridge 7 years ago.

James has blonde hair and blue eyes he is 6ft 1" and has a mesomorphic body build and is very athletic and plays alot of sport.

Parents are married and he lives at home with them and his younger brother.

James is an athletic person who watches alot of sport and listens to drum and bass music.

James has a lot of friends because he is popular but his best friends that he is always with are Tom and Leo.

James story goal is to be the leader of there group and to take responsibilty for his friends and the other characters.

He stays in the story because he then develops powers and has to help Leo to contain Tom as he turns out to use his powers for evil. He tries to get his friends in with the popular crowd but they keep getting rejected as they are not accepted in the world that he is from. He is the one who keeps the group together. 

Leo

Born 30 August 1996

He grew up in Cambridgeshire 

He has brown hair and brown eyes 6ft has a mesamorphic athletic build he also plays alot of sports and has alot of friends aswell. 

The character I sort of like James's right hang man as James is the one that keeps the group together. Leo is the one that helps James to reach his goal. 

He comes from a poor background compared to James and lives at home with him Mum but still has a close relationship with him Dad. 

Leo is into sport and reads a lot of sports and is an active person but doesn't have a lot of other friends outside of his sports. 

Luke Bennett Script first draft P1

Face Warp P1

X-Men Sound time line P1

X-Men sound analysis P1

Constant background music 0:00-1:32
Wolverine speak 0:04-0:05
Ball bouncing 0:05-0:09
Kids shouting and playing basketball 0:05-0:15
Professor X voice over 0:08-0:12
Little boy speaks 0:12
Professor X Voice over 0:15-0:18
Professor X Voice over 0:19:0:22
Sounds clay pigeons and lazer beems 0:22-0:29
Professor X voice over 0:29- 0:30
Professor X voice over 0:32-0:54
Sound of a lighter 0:48
Sound of flames 0:51
Sound of frost and ice 0:58-1:02
Sound of ice smashing 1:03
Storm speaks "John" 1:06
Students speaks back 1:07 "Sorry"
Bobby speaks 1:12-1:15
Rogue speaks "Rogue" 1:16
Bobby speaks 1:28-1:29
Professor X voice over 1:17-1:28

At the beginning of the clip the music fades in which helps to create tension and a bit of a build up to what is about to happen. Wolverine says "What is this place" then is cuts to kids playing basket ball and the sounds of kids playing and bouncing a basketball, when you hear the sound of children playing it sounds like an ordinary school, but then there is a bit of dialogue  which is a young kid saying "hey you're not aloud to use your powers" that is good as when they say it, it sounds as if they are saying it casually as if the powers is not a big deal. the clip then cuts to a boy using his powers to run across water and the voice over says at the same time "this is a school for gifted youngsters" this is good as it shows that you are meant to be fully aware of there powers and look it as a common thing. Cyclopes and Gene come onto the screen as the voice over says "Cyclopes, storm and Gene were the first of my gifted students" with the sound of Gene using her telekinesis to move the clay pigeons so that Cyclopes can shoot it with his laser beam. you can hear the beams in the clips, which is theory could be a different range of sounds as no one actually knows what they sound like. It then cuts to a class of students with ability and with professor x's voice over it seems like calm environment as the music changes as well to more of a slow chilled sound. You hear the sound of the lighter and the flame as the boy uses his powers which makes it seem more real. As it come to the end of the clip the music quites down to it finally stopping when Bobby says "Welcome to mutant high" this give off a good affect as the audience is paying full attention and takes in what Bobby says.

Tweet Pitch P1

3 characters Max Scott Tom who r on way 2 a party nd they find a blue glowing light nd pick it up thy black out and wake up with superpowers.

Misfits; Season 1 Episode 1 Visual effect Analysis P1

Visual Effects.
The storm cloud: 4:36-4:37
Rock/Hayle stone falls from the sky at 4:49, 5:01
Visual effect of the Storm  5:09 - 6:20
Lightening flash and slow motion 6:12-6:42
Simon goes invisible 17:41-17:43
Simon's has no reflection in the mirror 18:48
Simon's reflection appears in the mirror 19:16
Everyone freezes but Kurtis and then you go into Kurtis's eye and then you go back in time 30:10-30:42
Simon is in the bar and he has no reflection in the mirror 40:11 - 40:21

Story pitch P1

Hero

Three main characters, Tom, James, Leo. Three good friends who are just living there average, normal lives. Tom is the shy one who got bullied and very insecure about himself because he is always in the eyes of the bullies. Tom is the main character. Leo is the dumb one and always gets himself into trouble  . James is the popular guy at college, he is the one who they look up to. 

They are all walking to a party and they see a blue light coming from a drain of the side of the road, Tom reaches into the drain to grab the crystal and they all touch it at the same time and then there is a flash and they all wake up in their own bed in the morning and can't remember what happened accept that they were walking to the party. 

They then realise that they have powers by the stuff they do in the morning like opening the door the handle gets crush or the door come off the hinges. they all ring and speak to each other and decide that they are no going to tell anyone about it. They go to college and Tom is on his own when a group of bullies approach him and and take his bag and start bullying him, he then defends himself and pushes one of them against the locker and realise that he has changed some how and this is when he begins to use his powers for evil. He discovers more off his powers and start committing crimes buy using his invisibility and his super speed and strength. Leo and James hear about some person that has been robbing places and causing crimes and that they have some special ability and then Leo and James clocks on to it being Tom. 

Leo and James speak to Tom and confronts him about what has been going on.

Sound Effects - Drive P1

Sound Effect Analysis – Drive

1)   The purpose of diegetic sound is to help set and creative the scene with tension and also to establish the main point in the scene, for example in the sequence you can hear the police radio talks about the heist that is happening and how close they are to your location, which makes you feel anxious, just incase they get caught. The extra little sounds helps to create the atmosphere like the door sensor beeping helps toward the tension, but the sound of running commentary coming from the basketball games give a sense of relaxation which you can tell that the driver is quite relaxed.  The purpose is to entertain and emphasis the genre which is crime thriller.

2)   The main character is sitting in his car as he is the getaway driver for two criminals who are about to do an armed robbery. The main character (Ryan Gosling) who pulls up at the scene were the two robbers are waiting for him so they can commit the robbery and jump in his car, you then see them run over to the gate, cut the chains and then shoot the lock of the back door. The shot gun sounds lets the audience see how serious they are about with what they are doing and it has quite a big impact as when the shot gun shoes off there isn’t much back ground sounds like common traffic sounds or any other sounds that are out the car, this is why the bang of the shotgun is so loud because it goes from just having diegetic internal sounds to an external bang. The loud bang makes you feel anxious for them hoping they will make is out in time. But they’ll have to be quick because Ryan has a rule which is a 5 minute window were if they are not back with-in 5 minutes then he will drive off and leave them.

After you hear the gunshots, Ryan turns the police radio up, this is good piece of diegetic sounds that help create tension because you hear the police say what kind of car Ryan is in and also the location of the car. During the point were you can hear the police radio and the criminals are still in the shop you can hear a various different amount of sounds which give you mixed feeling in the scene as you can hear the basketball commentary, the shop alarm and the clock ticking which is very valuable in the scene as it the main diegetic tension builder because it is louder then it usually be , and also the non-diegetic sound in the background which is fast constant beats then suddenly you hear the back door of the shop swing open and the criminal comes running out and jumps in the back and you can hear him breath heavily as if he is scared or nervous which makes you feel a bit on the edge of your seat.