weekly comments (2/16/14)

Weekly Comments (2/16/14)

 This week I learned how to take clips from different movies / trailers and put them together to make something totally different, example: taking clips from toy story and audio from the movie IT.

In the future, I would like to learn more fake fighting techniques so that way in the future when I make more short films it will look more realistic and the audience will enjoy it more.

Something that frustrated me this week would be the 5 page essay, I like essays but i can never get past the third page I run out of things to write about my director.

Something that made me happy this week would be the trailer recut project, I find it amusing to take clips from different movies and make them into a horror film.

link of interest - This is a really cool 2d style banner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJXdMhAdcDQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUppPgpuw4lb-qdO0kGoJdwA

How To Turn That Passion For Writing and Filmmaking Into A Reality - 1/19/14

How To Turn That Passion For Writing and Filmmaking Into A Reality

- The 10,000 hour rule, if you put 10,000 hours into something you'll become a pro

- find something that you love and something you dislike and run experiments and prove your creative ability 

- Nobody in the film business knows the exact career path they want to take, many of them change their minds half way through

- I liked how raindance explains that if we put in the time and mindset the opportunities we could receive.

- another thing is that they give us the exact / close times to becoming good at something

- a question i have is, how come they change their minds midway through?

Heads above: the VFX of Sleepy Hollow - 1/19/4

Heads above: the VFX of Sleepy Hollow - 1/19/4

- There's over 120+ headless shots throughout the show, with over 400 shots done in 4 weeks.

- The actor had to wear a green hood throughout the show to make it possible to have a high quality headless horseman.

- In the show they created a city blackout, by gaining an aerial view of the town and then darkened it and began adding individual lights to each part of the town.

- I liked how the article explained they only had 2 weeks to film over 500 shots which is done mostly every week for a network TV schedule.

- Another thing i liked, is how they described what they used to do special effects so if someone like me wanted to know how i could search up the right thing and begin my journey.

- A question I have is, How much time does everything take, like how long would the rendering take for something like this?

Weekly Comments - 1/19/14

Weekly Comments - 1/19/14

During this week, i learned the different lighting setting and the use of different lights to make several lighting scenarios, the use of barn doors on lights can make narrow lighting for dim lights or brighter lighting.

In the future,  i would like to further learn the right way to have a fight scene, so that way i dont end up getting punched again, i would also like to learn how to bullet hits so it doesn't look like blood is floating in the air.

something that frustrated me this week, is that i had to remake the gun sounds for my short film since they got deleted and i couldn't find them and then during the editing of the film the clips kept disappearing which made it harder to get more effects in

Something that made me happy, would be that we got the short film finished and it came out pretty nice and then being able to work on projects we could win scholarships for future schools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVA_07Vh1dU - This is a cinema4D tutorial on nerve cell renders, its pretty sick!

Monday Mouse Watch (11/17/13)

Monday Mouse Watch: 

 

- if someone wants to make a document look older than it actually is, they'll sometimes use tea or tobacco to stain the paper

- to make a table or a dresser look like an authentic antique, they'll sometimes beat on that item with a length of chain in order to weather the wood.

- they went frame by frame throughout 'get a horse' to produce a mistake

- i like how they can make something brand new look like it was created 85 years ago

- i didnt like that they had to put in a mistake to make it look old, if that makes any sense

- a question i have is, what is the point of making it look old?

VFX Industry, Jobs, and You (11/17/13)

VFX Industry, Jobs, and You

- Visual effects is used in a lot of things from commercials, video games, broadcasts and everything in between.


- People who have a background of art and tech will be well suited for visual effects


- most buildings in tv shows are made of 3D and not actually filmed in that place


- I liked that the article explained some ways to be introduced into VFX and the jobs and requirements that need to be met


- another thing i liked is that you dont have to be a computer scientist but a normal person with little art skills


- My question is, How long will VFX be around and is it a good Career path?

weekly comments (11/17/13)

Weekly Comments (11/17/13)

- This week I learned how to subtract and add timecodes, and figure out the right amount of minutes etc, that is required to make the actual length of the film longer or shorter!

- When we get into after effects I want to learn bullet time, and more way to have a smoother slow motion other then twixtor and time remapping 

- The timecodes frustrated me a little bit but not so much, some of them were just really confusing and i didn't understand some problems but it was worth the lesson

- Fetting closer to the time when we get to work in after effects made me happy because i love working in AE and i have a sense of feeling towards the program

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4au_efL5eY - this is bullet time done in after effects it looks like a long process but will come in handy!