Today we had a team production meeting and decided that our group was ready to begin filming our special effects as a practice. Firstly we decided to film the 'walking into a wall effect' by doing this we had to go to C block corridor and film Edwyn walking through a corridor, turning towards a wall and having some sort of contact with the wall (Walking into the wall)
After filming this we sat in class and started trying to work on the footage of Edwyn. This proved difficult because when filming there was other people in the corridor walking so it was hard to cut the clip of Edwyn walking away so that we could film the blank wall. In resolution to this we filmed edwyn outside where there was no distractions for editing. Edwyn would walk up to the wall, walk into it, stay there for approximately 3 seconds and then exit the shot. We tried pausing the camera and then have him off screen but this disrupted the shot as the camera very slightly moved so this would be hard to edit. We then took the finished sequence, put it into after effects and started to edit.
This was successful but next time we use this effect i think it would look more realistic and effective if we had the boy jumping onto the wall. This would also improve the look by making the effect more abnormal and interesting. Editing the piece was not essentially difficult but could be made perfect rather than a rough try of successfully accomplishing the effect.
I used key frames to make the opacity of the boy lower as if ghost like and i also used the pen tool to mask out Edwyn to then make him disappear. The costume isn't a big deal because the character 'Felix' that we are trying to portray is a casual boy that can wear anything seeing as the setting is within college grounds.
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