Thursday, January 27, 2011
Ending To Trailer
Position: End
Software Used: After Effects
This is the end to my trailer, a sleek, 3D, memorable animated piece. The colours are bright and the text is clear.
Due to the uploaded video being of low quality(speed reasons) You may not be able to see that the circles that pop out of the ground are actually pills, this is significant as the film is about an illegal drug that comes in a pill form called a golden king, hence the name of the film. The pills are all vibrant colours and glow; this makes them appealing to the eye, luring you in to them before the text for golden kings pops up.
Potential Changes
To improve this i would like for the final shot(which is of Garcia and Rodriguez) to merge in to the final clip, i would like to have the final shot of the two characters walking, have everything fade away to reveal the final clip, but have the two characters still walking forward in to the distance. This may require some green screening.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The First 5 Seconds of Footage Edited!
The first 5 seconds of footage edited, with sound added yet.
Position: Near the Beginning
Location: Rundown Apartment
Characters: James Rodriguez (James Hall), Marcus "The Money Man"(Luke Franey)
Camera: Extreme Long-shot
The Shot Is set up so that the actors are in the foreground and are walking in to the distance, they walk in to the apartment and that is the only time in which they are out of shot. the reason for such an ELS is to capture the surroundings of the apartment, the grotty car park, the broken and boarded up windows.
The Actors in this shot do not appear to be talking to each-other, they are not discussing anything. Rodriguez is leading the way, because its his apartment, with Marcus just following taking it all in, marcus moves slower than Rodriguez because he is wary of his surroundings.
The original shot in length is very long due to the fact i had to set up the shot, push record, get in to character and once i was happy with the shot run back and turn the camera back off, the shot itself took a very long time to get right, with over 10 takes and a battery change, i was finally happy with this take. i like to start the camera rolling before i start the take anyway because it makes editing easier, if you have a few extra seconds to work with or takeaway as you please it can save on retakes, the same goes for leaving a shot running longer.
The Editing of this piece had to be precise, due to the fact that 50% of the shot was not acting and purely me setting up, chopping off the begging and end wasn't to hard. The cut jumping that you can see was something i introduced to the shot to save a lot of time, if this were a shot in the final film then it would have been much longer, but due to the nature of a trailer i had to cut down on time used, so introducing the cut jumps made the ' overall length a lot shorter but still getting the shot across. the color of the image had to be improved a great deal, as the day of shooting was a very overcast grey day, which gave the shot a flat light and appear very grey. this didn't give off a very good feel. after an hour or so of playing and experimenting i found the perfect combination of light and dark areas whilst boosting the overall color and levels, giving it a far more cinematic effect.
Position: Near the Beginning
Location: Rundown Apartment
Characters: James Rodriguez (James Hall), Marcus "The Money Man"(Luke Franey)
Camera: Extreme Long-shot
The Shot Is set up so that the actors are in the foreground and are walking in to the distance, they walk in to the apartment and that is the only time in which they are out of shot. the reason for such an ELS is to capture the surroundings of the apartment, the grotty car park, the broken and boarded up windows.
The Actors in this shot do not appear to be talking to each-other, they are not discussing anything. Rodriguez is leading the way, because its his apartment, with Marcus just following taking it all in, marcus moves slower than Rodriguez because he is wary of his surroundings.
The original shot in length is very long due to the fact i had to set up the shot, push record, get in to character and once i was happy with the shot run back and turn the camera back off, the shot itself took a very long time to get right, with over 10 takes and a battery change, i was finally happy with this take. i like to start the camera rolling before i start the take anyway because it makes editing easier, if you have a few extra seconds to work with or takeaway as you please it can save on retakes, the same goes for leaving a shot running longer.
The Editing of this piece had to be precise, due to the fact that 50% of the shot was not acting and purely me setting up, chopping off the begging and end wasn't to hard. The cut jumping that you can see was something i introduced to the shot to save a lot of time, if this were a shot in the final film then it would have been much longer, but due to the nature of a trailer i had to cut down on time used, so introducing the cut jumps made the ' overall length a lot shorter but still getting the shot across. the color of the image had to be improved a great deal, as the day of shooting was a very overcast grey day, which gave the shot a flat light and appear very grey. this didn't give off a very good feel. after an hour or so of playing and experimenting i found the perfect combination of light and dark areas whilst boosting the overall color and levels, giving it a far more cinematic effect.
Monday, January 17, 2011
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