A Cheap & Easy Way to Create a Professional-Looking Infinite Black Backdrop (3/16/14)

A Cheap & Easy Way to Create a Professional-Looking Infinite Black Backdrop

- The Infinite Black background. Its visuals add a level of surrealism and style, Its been used in Music videos, dream sequences in narrative films and art films

- Especially if you don’t have the cash or space, but need your project to look professional. The first essential thing you’ll need to create an infinite black 

- Something that could make your work look either really professional or really shoddy, is the lighting

- What I like is the author created a tutorial to actually show you what you need and how to engage within the program!

- Another thing I liked is that using a Infinite Black background you can do more things instead of keeping a person still, like films and pictures

- A question I have is, Does this work more with music videos or films?

Weekly Comments (3/2/14)

- Something I learned this week is that weather sucks when you are trying to learn new things.

- Something that made me happy this week is that we started reading The Great Gatsby which I was looking forward to for a long time.

- Something that angered me is that the weather ruins a lot of important things

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXs5CmMWgfY - Muk is the greatest at doing concept logos check them out!

How to Hook Your Audience in Those Crucial First Seconds (2/16/14)

How to Hook Your Audience in Those Crucial First Seconds (2/16/14)

- The hero of your story should have a lot in common with your viewer to keep them engaged, Having characters resemble some of your viewers characteristics can keep the viewer watching.

- Even if your "main character" isn't in your first sequence, you want to mention him/her to grip their story

- The emotions being rendered could be happiness, shock, sadness, fear, or any intense feeling that will likely retain a viewer’s attention.

- The article is very useful, I like the ways it explains everything in different stages

- I like how it explains that you want to take the viewers look and put it into the character 

- One question I have is that, What if the person still doesnt like your films, do you just leave it be or fix it to what they want?

Lego movie (2/16/14)

Lego movie (2/16/14)

- They avoided making the legos look digitally perfect, by making it seem like the toys have been played with adding smudges and small cracks.

- In a stop motion movie, buying all the bricks to create the movie would cost millions for the bricks alone.

- The filmmakers opted for the flexibility of 3-D animation, with some real Lego-built sets mixed in. 

- I liked that the producers wanted to keep the look of toys that have been played with by kids by adding small adjustments.

- Another thing I liked is that they brought in Chris McKay (“Robot Chicken”) as animation co-director to help.

- How long did it take creating this movie? How long was the final render?

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?