Sunday, September 15, 2013

Pre Production Plan

Brief -
My idea is not to re create a scene from any specific movie rather create my own were it'll just be a standard shoot out between 2 or maybe 3 groups of people having all things that most shootout scenes have

Brainstorm ideas -  
I shall be planning to use plenty of muzzle flash and gun pretending to fire and also have gunshot wounds and many other special effects that you usually see happening in a shoot out
 
Research or create a mood board  - 

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/blood_splatter/ 
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/realistic_gun_blow_back/
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/simulated_lighting/
And with more time using
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/assisted_suicide/
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/demon_face_warp/

Create a Storyboard -

Identify the cast and crew 
Boss bad guy
Boss good guy
bad guys
Good guys
someone to film
Resources - 
Fake guns for everyone to use and my time to complete all the tasks
Blood splatters effect
 
Location - Scout locations and  take photos. Take into account time day, lighting and any authorisation you may need.
Behind the canteen at tafe will be ideal and create a nice area for this sort of effect 
Budget - 
There will be a few hours of time spent filming maybe taking up an hour or two of everyones time just to get the scene right 
then several hours of my time to get everything working in after effects
4 or 5 fake guns to use which will probably cost around 50 dollars
Schedule - When will it happen? When will it be finished? How long will it take? Break the process down into;
The planning phase will be fully complete by the end of the holidays
i will the shoot all my film and have all of that finished by the 7th of october
I am then away for a week and will spend the rest of the time until it is due to fine tune my project

Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Roto Brush

Today i have gone through two tutorials learning some simple techniques in after effects!
The Roto brush is baisicaly our quick selection tool for after effects it allows you to easily select areas that you need to edit and quickly auto selects these objects frame by frame

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Special Effects Tutorials

This video shows some simple green screening as well as blood effects and muzzle flash effects the first video is the actual video and the second explaining the logisticsThis video has many more advanced concepts and some easier ones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4MRo4QONQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWg4VEG7vCI


This Website shows 50 tutorials that teach you a wide variety of special effects

http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/50-excellent-adobe-after-effects-tutorials.html


This Video sows Three Relatively complexs after effects work Slow Motion, Blast effect and a Flying cutout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desb0W6u80Y&feature=c4-overview&list=UUDsO-0Yo5zpJk575nKXgMVA


A relatively in-depth tutorial on how to make a muzzle Flash for action scenes

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