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Self evaluation: I am very proud of the video and compositions I have produced. I find I have come a long way since the beginning of the semester. Coming from someone who still cannot correctly draw a good stick figure, I find I have a solid understanding of the tools and methods behind digital art and compositions. I have a new respect for many of those who work in the field of digital media composition and I hope to one day find a place for myself in that field.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Final Project
Proposal/Abstract: My partner, Joe Gorab, and I plan to make an action movie trailer with an urban setting, generic samurai revenge story, and a Grind house movie feel.
It took Joe and I quite some time to get the necessary equipment we needed for filming and once we did time was short but we headed right out to begin our movie. In our original story board we had a very disgruntled samurai climbing a foreboding mountain facing demons and henchmen along the way until he meets up with his arch nemesis at the top and they show down. Being that neither Joe or myself could come up with a mountain on such short notice and with the fact that neither one of us new how to work with the blue screen I decided that it could be a cool idea to go urban with the story and so instead of having our protagonist climb a mountain, he climbed a parking structure. An immediate issue here was the incredibly dark lighting inside the parking structure and the incredibly bright lighting outside at the top. This coupled with the terrible quality of the school's camera made things very difficult for Joe and I during editing. However, I found a way to make all of this work. I decided that the poor quality of the camera would serve to make the movie look like it was a grind house movie. I thought the dark lighting would add to the intensity as the characters look silhouetted against the background, and I decided to use the bright light as sort of an altered reality kind of setting for when the antagonist steps into to scene. This was all done by messing with the brightness, RGB, and proc amp filters on Final Cut. Splicing the scenes together proved rather simple as I had an exact idea of what I wanted. There was one scene where I had the antagonist jumping from the roof of the parking structure to face the hero. I made it look this way by cutting and splicing scene with perfect timing and no one was the wiser. My most difficult challenge was clipping the audio file to fit to the video, I most certainly could have done better with this but because of time restraints and uncooperative audio files, I figured that the way I had it was fairly well done for a beginner.
Basic edits and raw footage:
Here is the raw shot I had of the antagonist and his fake landing from the roof of the parking structure. You can see how it is way too bright and way to blurry, something I took upon myself to fix.
This is a re-take and edit of the final action in that shot. You can see all of the shots edited and spliced together to make one fluid movie in the final cut of my film.
It took Joe and I quite some time to get the necessary equipment we needed for filming and once we did time was short but we headed right out to begin our movie. In our original story board we had a very disgruntled samurai climbing a foreboding mountain facing demons and henchmen along the way until he meets up with his arch nemesis at the top and they show down. Being that neither Joe or myself could come up with a mountain on such short notice and with the fact that neither one of us new how to work with the blue screen I decided that it could be a cool idea to go urban with the story and so instead of having our protagonist climb a mountain, he climbed a parking structure. An immediate issue here was the incredibly dark lighting inside the parking structure and the incredibly bright lighting outside at the top. This coupled with the terrible quality of the school's camera made things very difficult for Joe and I during editing. However, I found a way to make all of this work. I decided that the poor quality of the camera would serve to make the movie look like it was a grind house movie. I thought the dark lighting would add to the intensity as the characters look silhouetted against the background, and I decided to use the bright light as sort of an altered reality kind of setting for when the antagonist steps into to scene. This was all done by messing with the brightness, RGB, and proc amp filters on Final Cut. Splicing the scenes together proved rather simple as I had an exact idea of what I wanted. There was one scene where I had the antagonist jumping from the roof of the parking structure to face the hero. I made it look this way by cutting and splicing scene with perfect timing and no one was the wiser. My most difficult challenge was clipping the audio file to fit to the video, I most certainly could have done better with this but because of time restraints and uncooperative audio files, I figured that the way I had it was fairly well done for a beginner.
Basic edits and raw footage:
Here is the raw shot I had of the antagonist and his fake landing from the roof of the parking structure. You can see how it is way too bright and way to blurry, something I took upon myself to fix.
This is a re-take and edit of the final action in that shot. You can see all of the shots edited and spliced together to make one fluid movie in the final cut of my film.
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