Project 1-Special effect practice video link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zd8-HtRtus&feature=youtu.be

Project 1-Story boards

Project 1-Team Production Meeting - special effect practice

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.

Project 1-Special effect practice

To achieve making a 'walking through wall' special effect:

Firstly we filmed Edwyn walking up to a wall and making as much contact as possible to the wall (walking into the wall) he then stayed there for roughly two seconds and walked off camera. Walking off camera is better because pressing pause to film the empty wall will slightly jolt the camera out of position meaning that when it comes to putting it into special effects it will then make it a lot harder to mask ect. I then imported the video into After Effects and cut the part of Edwyn walking off camera so that i then had a video of him walking to the wall and then cut straight to an empty wall. After this i created a still image of the empty wall and put it as a bottom layer throughout the whole film. I then created a key frame around Edwyn and just before he reached the wall to give the effect of him disappearing. Lastly i went on the mask effects and lowered the opacity just before he met the wall and lowered it even more when he got to the wall.

Project 1-Location Table

Project 1- Effect sheet- Walking through wall

Project 1-Visual Effects Research

Each shot that contains a visual effect within our shot list does not show clearly which visual effect we should use and where it should be used but i have some brief ideas of where the main visual effects could be.

Shot 3-  M angle/ camera focuses on various students

In this shot, Felix is looking around the corridor at students showing their powers in practice. I think that within this shot there should be a few visual effects divided between each other so that its clear that it is a college for mutants.

Visual effects 1-  A girl/boy walking through people/ walls

Visual effects 2- Mutant eyes 

- Misfits

-Harry Potter




Shot 13- 'I turn into inanimate objects' Visual effects 3 - inanimate objects
This visual effect could quickly split off to Felix turning into an inanimate such as a pot or something like that.
This would create humour and show a good quality visual effect to grasp the viewers attention.