Costumes
Jake: Smart/Casual gear and the most noticeable thing about him will be his JACKET!
Chief: Smart therefore a grey suit or something of equal smartness
Sir Alistar: Fairly smart, however he will be in a action scene therefore will need a major look at!!!
Supporting actors
Keith: rough clothes
Alice: Shirt with black shirt and black shoes.
Dave: Casual with jeans.
Props.
Sci-Fi guns for Jake and Sir Alistar
Plan to have Nerf guns and spray paint them black
Muffin Button Machine.
A push button switch in a box not connected to anything with a cable to a square.
Pizza Box stacks
Just going to collect/ask at a shop if I can buy 5 of them.
Shades Aviators for ending punch line.
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Sunday, 22 February 2015
Developing Characters
Character 1
Main lead
Name: Jake Baxter
Attributes: Smart Sarcastic and witty
Character 2
Support/mentor role
Name: Chief John Pierce
Attributes: Leader, Smart and Level headed
Character 3
Villain
Name: Sir Alistar Ellseworth
Attributes: Smart, Egotistical
Supporting Actor 1
Captured henchman of villain
Name: Keith Blackwood
Attributes: Angry, Resistant
Supporting Actor 2
Female Officer
Name: Alice Walsh
Attributes: Teachers pet, Smart
Supporting Actor 3
Male Officer
Name: Dave Smith
Attributes: silly, Here for the comedic effect
Main lead
Name: Jake Baxter
Attributes: Smart Sarcastic and witty
Character 2
Support/mentor role
Name: Chief John Pierce
Attributes: Leader, Smart and Level headed
Character 3
Villain
Name: Sir Alistar Ellseworth
Attributes: Smart, Egotistical
Supporting Actor 1
Captured henchman of villain
Name: Keith Blackwood
Attributes: Angry, Resistant
Supporting Actor 2
Female Officer
Name: Alice Walsh
Attributes: Teachers pet, Smart
Supporting Actor 3
Male Officer
Name: Dave Smith
Attributes: silly, Here for the comedic effect
Script V1 (before editors notes)
Script
(untitled)
Not in script format as Blogger can't interpret.
C1=Character1
C2=Character2
C3=Character3
SA=supporting actors
Act 1
Scene 1
(Wide Shot, Panning left to right)
Landscape view of Leeds, combined with
CGI Buildings and possibly flying cars. Location and year in bottom corner.
Transition to by black building blocking
camera shot into next scene
Scene 2
(wide shot, close up on each character as
they speak)
Characters in scene Character 1 (C1) and
supporting actor 1 (SA1)
The set is a table with both characters
on each side. The room has dark grey walls with lights from above.
C1 :
Character is standing, hands on table.
“You drug baron, who is he? Just give me his name!”
SA1 :
”Never”
Sitting in the back of the chair, relaxed.
C1
gives a heavy sigh of disappointment.
“You give me no
choice”
C1 lifts a strange square box with a
button connected to it.
SA1
“This can’t be the…”
C1
“Oh yes, the only prototype left!”
He smirks after knowing he’s won.
SA1
(hesitantly)
“you… you are something else”
Looks away to the floor and slowly back at C1
:
“His name is…”
Scene ends.
Scene 3
As scene 2 ends C1 walks into a new room.
The room is very modern office style Nothing else to add.
Character in scene Character 1(C1) and
Character 2 (C2)
C1
“ (Character 3’s name here) he’s the one running the show, no
need to thank me”
acts like he’s on top of the world.
C2
“Thank you detective (C1) you are dismissed”
C1
Looks very confused “ I’m sorry, (witty comment here)
C2
“Detective, … After
what you did…”
Flash Back to C1 and SA1 walking away
from a building which blows up behind them.
C1
”Yeah, which was awesome”
C2
:” what you did was against the rules”
C1
“Pfft, rules are just
guidelines”
C2
” You blew up the building on purpose”
C1
”WHAAAAAAAAAAT …” sarcastic tone “ no I would never”
C2 looks unimpressed
C1
“You can’t say that
wasn’t ‘awesome’”
(higher pitch on awesome)
C2
”hmm well detective,
since your methods are too… awesome I’m afraid the other detective will be
jealous and have to suspend you”
C1
“but sir with all due
respect I got a suspect and got a name”
C2
“And may I ask did you convince him to talk”
C1
“erm… well you know
because I’m awesome”
C2
“Detective”
C1
“ Muffin button…”
C2
“you are off the case,
now leave”
C1 walks away out of the office.
SA2 (support actor female) standing
outside the office
SA2
“Too bad you won’t be
able to finish the case due to suspension, and I ‘really’ hope it doesn’t take
too long!”
C1
“Funny, but I ‘really’
hope it doesn’t take too long! is the name of your sex tape”
Walks off the scene to the right
End of Act 1
Act 2
Flat of C1
scene 1
Montage of the actor bored in different
positions throughout the scene.
Scene 2
Incoming call from the chief (C2)
C1 slicks back hair and prepares for the
call
C1
”Hey, how you doing? Because I’m just having the time of my
life, not bored at all.”
Pause
“ Got it no problem sir I’ll be on my way”
Phone call ends
C1 dances then knocks over object to
stop.
End of Act 2
Act 3
Night Time Location outside the Rose
bowl, C1 comes in with black combat gear or normal gear. The chief
C2 is observing the assault on the building
C1
”No need to panic, because I’m here, (C1’s name)”
enters heroic pose
C2
”yes I’m glad your here”
Turns to C1
C1
”exactly… wait what!”
C2
“ at this moment in
time all of the moves we’ve made are ineffective, therefore need all the help
we can get… Even Dave is here”
Camera blur to Dave sitting like a small child, with a
happy meal and pulls out a toy.
Cuts back to C1 shocked in awe
C1
”I want one”
C2
“NO”
C1
”WHYYYY!”
C2
”because I’m your commanding officer!”
C1 sticks out tounge
SA2 (female) enters and
says
SA2
”everything is ready for the second assault
C2
”good lets get everyone to speed
SA2 and C2 leave
SA3 enters (officer)
SA3
”sir your weapon is ready”
Passes Nerf gun spray painted black
Camera runs from the base of the barrel along the shaft
then up to C1
C1
”Lock and load” (needs something better here!)
Over Com : “All units prepare for Assault”
bottom hand of screen “1 hour and 37 mins “ camera looking
at the Rose bowl build
Cuts to C1 and Dave wide shot looking unhappy
C1
“Why has nothing
happened yet… I mean we’re just sitting here doing nothing at all… You agree
with me don’t you Dave?”
Dave
“peew peew”
Fake gun sounds
C1
“I’m out”
C1 walks around the rose bowl to the the entrance to the
underground car park.
He walk down to the under ground car park from here the car
cuts to a lift CGI it opens and C3 (really got to name these guys) walks out
C1
“Freeze, NYPD! (C3’s name)”
C3 raises hands
C3
“ What the.. wait NYPD
New York Police
C1 lowers gun
C1
“No it’s the New Yorkshire Police Department”
C3
“doesn’t quiet work does it”
C1
“I know… I tell them that”
C3
“Best do” begins to walk off again
C1
“Okay thank for feedback… and where do you think your going?”
C3
“Oh please ”
C1
“(C3’s name), I will defeat you”
C3
“39”
C1
”Huh?
C3
“Sorry please continue with your monolog, my plane isn’t here
for another (Looks at watch) 2 hours, so please continue”
C1
“I, (C1’s name) will bring you to justice”
C3
“27”
C1
“seriously what are you doing!”
C3
“32 and it’s the
amount of times I’ve heard the cliché lines from ‘heroes’”
C1
“Well… “
C3
“this will be good”
Thinking really hard for C1
C3
“Don’t think too hard dear…”
C1
“Fuck you!”(change this as inappropriate)
C3
“Ha 73”
C1
“ right, I’m handcuffing your ass”
C3
“oh…”
Pauses to think
“2”
C1
“Annoyed grunt”
C3
“this is where this game ends…”
shoots a blast from his staff
C1
dodges
“Ha missed, try again
for a…”
interrupted by blast
C1
“Now that’s rude”
C3
“I’m sorry I didn’t realise”
C1
“It’s okay I know it’s diff…”
Another blast
“Seriously…”
C3
“Sorry my hearing must be off because I hear kill me please”
C1
”that’s it I’m fighting now”
C3
“Thank god”
Fight begins Storyboard this stuff
After
shooting him a bit
C1
“Man you need glasses”
c3 doesn’t care
C1
“ Er I stopped dodging, you know”
C3
“Exactly”
C1 turns around to find they are homing blasts
C1
“Oh… Ohhh… Clever
DIC….”
Blast hits
Near end
C1 down on the ground and C3 standing tall
C3
“well this was fun, nice playing with you ‘hero’”
C1
slowly begins to get up
C3
“Oh darling, stay down”
C1
“how’s about no”
c3 looks bit stunned as it wasn’t a cliché line
C1
“It’s time to break you”
C3
(in head George tekai “Oh My…”)
C1
“Like a kitkat bar”
C3
Shocked
“Er that’s a new one”
C1
“Eat my load”
C3
George Takei Oh My
“not now George”
hits C3 who then becomes lying on the floor in pain
C1 walks up to him
C1
“Time to take you out of the oven”
C3
in pain
“Huh?”
C1
“Because your done”
Chief enters to this
C2
“well done detective”
C1 pulls a smirk
After 1st set of credits
camera on C1
C1
“Oh it’s been a while”
Cuts to the muffin button machine
Pushes button
VFX to make a Muffin appear.
Rest of the credits follow.
Extened Practice Script ideas
Creating a script is a interesting to do as this is a part of the skeleton for the film.
So basic plot of my film is a detective solving a case who then gets suspended because of his unorthodox methods and sits at home for a while. After 3 days he then get called back in as the back up team for bring down the villain. He wins end of... So very basic plot of establishing the character followed by dilemma, which gets resolved into the happy ending.
Themes thought out this story: Comedy, Action
Main focus on Comedy however must try to hard as it won't be funny and will fall flat!
Sub focus is the Action as this is a police type event it will most likely have action.
With this in mind I've created version one of the script, which shall be sent on to a editor to improve this to a new height.
Script Version one will be posted then
Editor Greg Schackleberry a English Lit and Lan Graduate hopefully shall bring the script to a new level.
So basic plot of my film is a detective solving a case who then gets suspended because of his unorthodox methods and sits at home for a while. After 3 days he then get called back in as the back up team for bring down the villain. He wins end of... So very basic plot of establishing the character followed by dilemma, which gets resolved into the happy ending.
Themes thought out this story: Comedy, Action
Main focus on Comedy however must try to hard as it won't be funny and will fall flat!
Sub focus is the Action as this is a police type event it will most likely have action.
With this in mind I've created version one of the script, which shall be sent on to a editor to improve this to a new height.
Script Version one will be posted then
Editor Greg Schackleberry a English Lit and Lan Graduate hopefully shall bring the script to a new level.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
CoP 3 Evaluation
Evaluation.
At the start of this project I looked into new systems and learned new plug-ins for Maya.
Bifrost was fun to learn however didn't fit this project at the time.
On the other hand 3D Tracking for my robot hand was a different story as 'Match Mover' it frustrated me beyond I could have imagined, and sometimes during it I felt like giving up, but I continued with it with the thinking of 'What if a client asks me to do a 3D track of something?' with this in the back of my mind I knew I would have to complete this even if it was only 5 seconds long it shows I have tested it and put it into practice. However I need to learn these different skills in order to improve my skills as a digital filmmaker.
Stories is about knowing every thing you do is leading to a single point which is the ending. From these stories they cam tell truth, fact, or fiction, but they deepen our understanding of who we are as human beings as we are born for stories, they confirm who we are. Stories are passed on and go around the world influencing people in many different ways, by using the medium of film this is changed into Visual Storytelling, with the creators creating their visuals takes on the stories the've created and showing the us the audience.
This Project Context of Practice has been interesting with writing a dissertation about what I first thought was going to be VFX however I found a better subject of storytelling which has been better and fun. This also lead to my discovery of what makes a good story, a question which can be answered in different ways but looking at this subject within film it can be found and allows me to dig deeper into the subject, also finding Andrew Stanton's talk on TED.com about storytelling and steps he took for the film 'Wall.e' (2008) also the fact of visual storytelling is the best form of storytelling as if you can understand the story visually, you've done something right as you have thought out your ending.
Along with McClean's book on 'Digital Storytelling' (2008) talks about how DVFx is ruing some films and enhancing others and why this happens but the fact comes down to the story and how it was created in order to gains the attention of the audience. The combination of both of these authors to create the dissertation and the influence of these on the practical piece has been essential in my finds and my broadening my understanding of film making for the future.
If I was to critique my work of this project, I would say it's interesting as I look into the origins of storytelling, and find out why we crave stories
Overall it has widened my understand of film making, as I have before always thought films were apart of a balance of story, lighting, sound, actor, DVFx and VFx. Now I can see if the story of a film wasn't there the audience wouldn't care as much about the film, as we love to her stories about different thing which makes us care about how the ending will unfold. This also adds to the fact of how the brain works as it become emerged with the film and responds to the emotions on screen, combined with the sound effects to add emphasis. Stories are key to our every day lives even if we don't know about it happening, but we can tell the story of our lives easily and other people who listen enjoy them as it's something new and can care about.Stories is about knowing every thing you do is leading to a single point which is the ending. From these stories they cam tell truth, fact, or fiction, but they deepen our understanding of who we are as human beings as we are born for stories, they confirm who we are. Stories are passed on and go around the world influencing people in many different ways, by using the medium of film this is changed into Visual Storytelling, with the creators creating their visuals takes on the stories the've created and showing the us the audience.
CoP 3 Synthesis
How does my dissertation and practical piece fit together?
At the core it's all about storytelling, and how the story is worth your time because basic stories have a beginning, middle and end. It's what we're taught in primary school. I'm looking at what makes a good story? I have found it's by making the audience care, about the film or the characters or subject, also does just stay to film it's used in everything to get a reaction, this is not by fluke or coincidence, it's by DESIGN!
So as I create my FIlm trailer as my practical, what is the story telling the audience?
I'm showing them cybernetics and how awesome and cool these are with real facts to back up the verisimilitude(believability) but then ask the the question is this good or bad? provoking the audience to care about this all of a sudden which is by design! as Andrew Stanton quotes " It confirmed something I really had a hunch on, is that the audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don't want to know that they're doing that. That's your job as a storyteller, is to hide the fact that you're making them work for their meal.We're born problem solvers. We're compelled to deduce and to deduct, because that's what we do in real life. It's this well-organized absence of information that draws us in. " This is what makes Andrew one of the head story tellers at Pixar.
At the core it's all about storytelling, and how the story is worth your time because basic stories have a beginning, middle and end. It's what we're taught in primary school. I'm looking at what makes a good story? I have found it's by making the audience care, about the film or the characters or subject, also does just stay to film it's used in everything to get a reaction, this is not by fluke or coincidence, it's by DESIGN!
So as I create my FIlm trailer as my practical, what is the story telling the audience?
I'm showing them cybernetics and how awesome and cool these are with real facts to back up the verisimilitude(believability) but then ask the the question is this good or bad? provoking the audience to care about this all of a sudden which is by design! as Andrew Stanton quotes " It confirmed something I really had a hunch on, is that the audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don't want to know that they're doing that. That's your job as a storyteller, is to hide the fact that you're making them work for their meal.We're born problem solvers. We're compelled to deduce and to deduct, because that's what we do in real life. It's this well-organized absence of information that draws us in. " This is what makes Andrew one of the head story tellers at Pixar.
Therfore in my dissertation I've looked at storytelling, analysed from different films about how they tell the story and from this learning placed it into my practical piece.
Monday, 12 January 2015
CoP 3 Practical Endin/Title
In this part I need to make my ending have an impact, after the riot scenes. Therefore with the riot scenes going to black I'll have a small bit of text appear saying "is this the next..." which shall lead into the title of "Human Revolution".
The first part is simple as it's just text with the theme colour of blue/teal blue.
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The blue bar goes across the scene which keeps the audiences eyes on the text and bar.
The next section was hard as I re-used the background from "X-Gen" scene and removed the oragne highlight bar which looks like this.
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Next I added a flare to start the title
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From this picture below, I have used the circles from the hud display in the film and overlapped them and rotating to give a cyber feel as the title is revealed from the centre out.
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12fps from above showing how the title is revealed
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This then gives us the title with powerful music to give it a dramatic feel to the film and by having a a glow at the bottom combined with the particles at the top t balances out the composition.
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Flash flare into black for the ending.
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Credits.
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Later I pieced together all the film and a peer watched it so i could get feed back, they said "I don't understand the riot section" at this point due to the fact I knew what the story was about I didn't notice this fact as it suddenly jumps to riots for some reason.
This was an easy fix as I needed to just add text similar to "Is this the next..."
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I decided to make these questions as I have learnt from Andrew Stanton a writer at Pixar he states "the audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don't want to know that they're doing that" Therefore I've asked questions with no right or wrong just the viewers own opinion. I went with revealing the "Is this future bright?" as it's person and a percentage said "possibly" and "Yes" then by following that question up with "Is society ready for cybernetics?" asking them the question what about everyone else? which then leads to the riots and the audience puts 2+2 together and the fact cybernetic's is bad as these people are rioting.
The first part is simple as it's just text with the theme colour of blue/teal blue.
The next section was hard as I re-used the background from "X-Gen" scene and removed the oragne highlight bar which looks like this.
Later I pieced together all the film and a peer watched it so i could get feed back, they said "I don't understand the riot section" at this point due to the fact I knew what the story was about I didn't notice this fact as it suddenly jumps to riots for some reason.
This was an easy fix as I needed to just add text similar to "Is this the next..."
CoP 3 Riot Section
In this trailer I wanted people to think about the consequences of Cybernetic implants, and the effects it has, examples are I,Robot with an advanced A.I.(artificial Intelligence) ruling over the world. Deus Ex and the 'poorer' people not able to pay for the augmentations and how the companies are more powerful than the governments, therefore unable to do anything about it.
In today's world there are cybernetics in humans, to help people with lost ligaments, but with technology advancing rapidly from the simple plastic prosthetic ligaments are changing into machinery which receives electronic pluses from the muscles/brain in the body and makes it move. Which sounds amazing for helping people however what would happen if in half a decades time there were people who would misuse this technology?
From this I thought it would make my trailer interesting and different. One set back to this was there was no recent riots in Leeds, and I had looked up for the next riot/protest which would be happening and unfortunately it was in London about specific material, which is not a good idea really.
Luckily I found a website which sells Royalty Free Footage and I searched for riots and found a 1hr long mix of riots in the news which came from "UnusedNewFootage" (user name) had placed up, now because it was news footage I thought this was great, but I decided to E-mail him asking about the footage. It turns out the footage is two years old and belongs to the company as stock footage but is getting rid of/going into storage therefore they decided to put it up on this website for £30. I thought would be great as £30 was wroth the cost of this footage since I wouldn't be able to create a riot/protest myself.
The footage in this was great and I've used to sections to get the best effect for my film trailer. Then by creating text boxes in the lower third of the screen as news articles.
Below is how they came out.
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I decided to use two different colours to get the audience to notice that the text had change form the previous one. Another point is the use of a robotic voice over to say out the heading of the news articles, one male and the other female so the audience notices the difference and listens in.
In today's world there are cybernetics in humans, to help people with lost ligaments, but with technology advancing rapidly from the simple plastic prosthetic ligaments are changing into machinery which receives electronic pluses from the muscles/brain in the body and makes it move. Which sounds amazing for helping people however what would happen if in half a decades time there were people who would misuse this technology?
From this I thought it would make my trailer interesting and different. One set back to this was there was no recent riots in Leeds, and I had looked up for the next riot/protest which would be happening and unfortunately it was in London about specific material, which is not a good idea really.
Luckily I found a website which sells Royalty Free Footage and I searched for riots and found a 1hr long mix of riots in the news which came from "UnusedNewFootage" (user name) had placed up, now because it was news footage I thought this was great, but I decided to E-mail him asking about the footage. It turns out the footage is two years old and belongs to the company as stock footage but is getting rid of/going into storage therefore they decided to put it up on this website for £30. I thought would be great as £30 was wroth the cost of this footage since I wouldn't be able to create a riot/protest myself.
The footage in this was great and I've used to sections to get the best effect for my film trailer. Then by creating text boxes in the lower third of the screen as news articles.
Below is how they came out.
CoP 3 Academic Poster
We received a task to create a Poster showing the work we have done. The text should be somewhere in the 500-800 words, clearly arranged and possible to read in 5 mins.
The day of the Crit I went to York Aesthetica for the day therefore had to send in my poster and collect my feed back from the poster.
Unfortunately I saved over the initial first copy of this therefore unable to show it, however from the feed back I received it needed a lot of work to be done as I had created white text boxes with a gold outline which looks appeasing but since the information was in different sizes from showing how I did my motion tracking the boxes were all different sizes and didn't work.
The next point was the size difference in the pictures showing how the tracking was done, in the fact some needed to be larger to be seen, therefore need to look at which pictures would be need to show enough information to the reader.
The last bit on the bottom of the poster was about my subject theme Storytelling and the research which had been used so far. This part received the same comment about the white text boxes in the fact they weren't great.
Final Poster design.
The changes which I have made, removed all the white text bowes with the yellow outline and changed the text to white to make it stand out and readable on a dark background. Added my title and methodologies at the top. How I made the motion tracking hand information has been alined and not at different levels, therefore looks professional. My images of the motion tracking showing each important step and all alined to the text for professionalism. Storytelling at the bottom showing information about how each aspect of film should be equal with an example if "Life of Pi" (2012) had no VFX in the film it just becomes a blue stuffed toy. Lastly the final thing to add was my name and course at the bottom as this would show who did this compared to the crit version as some of my peers didn't this was my work.
The day of the Crit I went to York Aesthetica for the day therefore had to send in my poster and collect my feed back from the poster.
Unfortunately I saved over the initial first copy of this therefore unable to show it, however from the feed back I received it needed a lot of work to be done as I had created white text boxes with a gold outline which looks appeasing but since the information was in different sizes from showing how I did my motion tracking the boxes were all different sizes and didn't work.
The next point was the size difference in the pictures showing how the tracking was done, in the fact some needed to be larger to be seen, therefore need to look at which pictures would be need to show enough information to the reader.
The last bit on the bottom of the poster was about my subject theme Storytelling and the research which had been used so far. This part received the same comment about the white text boxes in the fact they weren't great.
Final Poster design.
The changes which I have made, removed all the white text bowes with the yellow outline and changed the text to white to make it stand out and readable on a dark background. Added my title and methodologies at the top. How I made the motion tracking hand information has been alined and not at different levels, therefore looks professional. My images of the motion tracking showing each important step and all alined to the text for professionalism. Storytelling at the bottom showing information about how each aspect of film should be equal with an example if "Life of Pi" (2012) had no VFX in the film it just becomes a blue stuffed toy. Lastly the final thing to add was my name and course at the bottom as this would show who did this compared to the crit version as some of my peers didn't this was my work.
Saturday, 10 January 2015
CoP 3 Exo Suit Section
Recently my friend has be doing a games development course, he was presenting some of his work. This work contained his drawings from concepts of different games and films to create his main character. I asked if I could use some of his less important images. He agreed to help as a part of his course was to be a concept artist for a contractor, therefore I was able to pay him to use his drawing as part of a royalty free concept art (Royalty free means that you can pay to use the images in a piece of work however he owns that piece of work therefore has to be mentioned in credits) and at the end of the credits he wishes to be mentioned as "Concept exo suit: Mr S. Bowes"
I told him I would like to film the pieces under glass which he said can be done. This lead to the setting up of a date and I did some filming/photos. I needed to be careful as I hadn't got permission from the other artists work as they share a studio so if I accidentally caught any other pieces of work it would be trouble as I haven't ask for permission making filming there. It was very tricky as it was a small studio space but this adds to the X Gen corporation feel.
In the end the footage was very tricky as I noticed other pieces of work enter the frame which became a pain, therefore with the photographs I took, I decide to use these and animate to camera movements.
I told him I would like to film the pieces under glass which he said can be done. This lead to the setting up of a date and I did some filming/photos. I needed to be careful as I hadn't got permission from the other artists work as they share a studio so if I accidentally caught any other pieces of work it would be trouble as I haven't ask for permission making filming there. It was very tricky as it was a small studio space but this adds to the X Gen corporation feel.
In the end the footage was very tricky as I noticed other pieces of work enter the frame which became a pain, therefore with the photographs I took, I decide to use these and animate to camera movements.
Concept based on "Halo" and "Crysis"
Only major thing is tinting the images to a blue to keep the theme running and followed by adding lower thirds text boxes.
CoP 3 Improving the cybernetic eye section!
Previously with my Cybernetic eye section there was a lack of a theme running throughout the scene, which lead my audience to be confused in thinking is this the same thing or something different!
This needed to be adjusted as soon as I got my theme running! In the blog post about the Cybernetic Arm (post below) the theme became blue with the text boxes being an effective way of showing what the product was about!!!
Here is one the clips before I heavily edited it.
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This is Briggate main street just outside Trinity and Top shop/Top man.
In the image you can see the the vector circles on the Top shop logo are in white, now look at the top left of the image to find a 3/4 circle in yellow/gold, straight away the audience don't have a clue what is going on and its shows a lack of professionalism in this scene as the amount of VFX is very little here and there isn't a reason why the white circle is moving around...
Therefore in order to get a better visual storytelling a lot had to be done!
Below is the final result at roughly the same point as image above.
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Straight away a theme colour of teal blue which matches the text in the text box at the lower thirds of the scene helps the audience understand this is following on from the last product showing.
This looks 100% better than the original version and by having the blue a lighter shade it enables the audience to see it and what it's doing. Some extra features which I added to this were the placing of logos such as the "50% off" in the window as a real time stream of information which is said in the voice over!
The same thing was done to the Video of the nation of shopkeepers.
Original
So above we have a small theme of yellow/gold which looks nice however the time in the top right and the information boxes to the left are all huge and in your face which is distracting! Another point was when the information about "nation" came up nothing else happened in the scene, there wasn't a reaction to finding out this information! A simple zoom in could have done the trick.
Here is the adjusted version with the blue theme and text box again to keep the audience on track which is this showing off it's products!
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This is at the same time frame as above, notice the difference in the zoom to show off that this is Nation of shopkeepers and that the is the entrance is there, it's incredible the amount of difference this has made!
Secondly the smaller map and time has had an impact as well, it's opened up the scene and you don't feel squashed in. The nation of shopkeepers information from Google has been adjusted to be slightly smaller and with an entrance so it's more interesting.
Overall the improvements to these clips have had a big impact and flows with the cyber arm footage therefore will make a good trailer!
This needed to be adjusted as soon as I got my theme running! In the blog post about the Cybernetic Arm (post below) the theme became blue with the text boxes being an effective way of showing what the product was about!!!
Here is one the clips before I heavily edited it.
In the image you can see the the vector circles on the Top shop logo are in white, now look at the top left of the image to find a 3/4 circle in yellow/gold, straight away the audience don't have a clue what is going on and its shows a lack of professionalism in this scene as the amount of VFX is very little here and there isn't a reason why the white circle is moving around...
Therefore in order to get a better visual storytelling a lot had to be done!
Below is the final result at roughly the same point as image above.
Straight away a theme colour of teal blue which matches the text in the text box at the lower thirds of the scene helps the audience understand this is following on from the last product showing.
This looks 100% better than the original version and by having the blue a lighter shade it enables the audience to see it and what it's doing. Some extra features which I added to this were the placing of logos such as the "50% off" in the window as a real time stream of information which is said in the voice over!
The same thing was done to the Video of the nation of shopkeepers.
Original
Here is the adjusted version with the blue theme and text box again to keep the audience on track which is this showing off it's products!
Secondly the smaller map and time has had an impact as well, it's opened up the scene and you don't feel squashed in. The nation of shopkeepers information from Google has been adjusted to be slightly smaller and with an entrance so it's more interesting.
Overall the improvements to these clips have had a big impact and flows with the cyber arm footage therefore will make a good trailer!
CoP 3 Practical Robot Arm and Lower Third Text boxes - High Tech
Earlier in this blog (further down the page) I did motion tracking using my arm as a tester with the robot arm which I had made, these results were amazing, however the amount of time it took was far too long!
This lead to a problem, as I wanted to include a person with the CGI robot arm, but with the test of the motion tracking before I thought it would be best for me not to do a motion tracking section because of time constraints. This leads me to change a part of the story and adapt the trailer, so I thought about creating an advert for it with detail about what it is and what does it do?
Straight away I took a photograph for my background which is a plain grey-ish backdrop which contains blue and orange lights. I can place my robotic arm on top, then add effects to make it look like it's a hologram plus create text boxes with information which the announcer/ speaker will talk about!
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The picture above is at the start of the holographic robot arm. The way I have created this effect is by using a adjustment layer combined with white noise streaks which analog TV's used to produce when there was no signal. On the adjustment layer by using the "Add" or "difference" mode it can produce different streaks on the original layer, therefore I used "add" because the footage had a lot of small white lines which looks more effective!
Within the scene I have animated the robot arm to rotate and move, to show off it's capabilities as if this was an advert trying to sell it's product. The reason why I have done it this way was because my research into storytelling. I looked into a coca-cola advert which tells a story and tries to convince it's audience to buy the drink. Therefore how am I to convince people to buy this imaginary product? The answer is BELIEVABILITY! So what can I use to make it more believable? I decided to add real life facts such as what materials it uses and how it works.
This lead me back to the start of my research!
The link for this video is here
In this video it's showing what the arm can do and it's different modes. The arm is made of Carbon Fibre a very strong material and also light. Other links about robot prosthetic arms show they are made of Titanium, a rare metal which is incredibly strong and also light weight!
This means as the speaker talks in my film about the arm which I created it will need to be either be made of carbon fibre or titanium. I think it will be best to use Titanium because my arm looks very metallic, so I will say its titanium and say that its strong and light weight for everyday use! Convincing the audience that this is a good product for people who have lost their arms!
I need to produce before hand a text box and logo to help the audience understand that this is the same company, "X Gen" which I created and that we aren't switching styles or themes.
For this I thought it would be best to use my blue theme, and use lighter and darker shades of blues to make it stand out more!
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As shown above the text is in a teal blue so it stands out and its easily readable for the audience, then by having a chequered dark blue backdrop for the text it adds to the emphasis hopefully this will give the desire of a futuristic company! I need now to animate this, as if it just appears it will not be affective enough to grab the audiences attention, however it needs to be subtle so that it doesn't draw the audience's attention away from the main focus of the advert!
I decide to animate it like this
(Every 6th frame!)
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From above you can see how the text boxes are revealed. I like this method of slightly animating the outline combined with the classic fade in/out effects as this is effective enough for the audience to notice but not get distracted from the main feature. Now I need to place this into the scene either at the top or bottom depending on where the main area of 'dead space' is.
(Dead spaces are areas which are not used through the scene and nothing happens, however they are large enough for the audience to notice them and think something might happen in that area!)
I decided to place the text box at the top of the scene.
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However In the Image above there is a bit of dead space to the left had side where the blue light is and it seems to be ready to show something which is a major problem as it will distract the audience.
I need to fix this quickly!
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I duplicated the text box and put 'Titanium structure' in the dead space to re-enforce the point of what it is made of, additionally this keeps the balance in the scene as the right hand side is dark, therefore isn't much of a problematic dead space!
I am happy with this section as it now shows off the robot arm with some interesting features and information included in the voice over and text boxes.
The next section is my robot eye piece which last time was criticised for having different themes and not staying to a set theme. This will be corrected and also will need to be improved to match the level of VFX used for the robotic arm so they are balanced.
This lead to a problem, as I wanted to include a person with the CGI robot arm, but with the test of the motion tracking before I thought it would be best for me not to do a motion tracking section because of time constraints. This leads me to change a part of the story and adapt the trailer, so I thought about creating an advert for it with detail about what it is and what does it do?
Straight away I took a photograph for my background which is a plain grey-ish backdrop which contains blue and orange lights. I can place my robotic arm on top, then add effects to make it look like it's a hologram plus create text boxes with information which the announcer/ speaker will talk about!
Within the scene I have animated the robot arm to rotate and move, to show off it's capabilities as if this was an advert trying to sell it's product. The reason why I have done it this way was because my research into storytelling. I looked into a coca-cola advert which tells a story and tries to convince it's audience to buy the drink. Therefore how am I to convince people to buy this imaginary product? The answer is BELIEVABILITY! So what can I use to make it more believable? I decided to add real life facts such as what materials it uses and how it works.
This lead me back to the start of my research!
The link for this video is here
In this video it's showing what the arm can do and it's different modes. The arm is made of Carbon Fibre a very strong material and also light. Other links about robot prosthetic arms show they are made of Titanium, a rare metal which is incredibly strong and also light weight!
This means as the speaker talks in my film about the arm which I created it will need to be either be made of carbon fibre or titanium. I think it will be best to use Titanium because my arm looks very metallic, so I will say its titanium and say that its strong and light weight for everyday use! Convincing the audience that this is a good product for people who have lost their arms!
I need to produce before hand a text box and logo to help the audience understand that this is the same company, "X Gen" which I created and that we aren't switching styles or themes.
For this I thought it would be best to use my blue theme, and use lighter and darker shades of blues to make it stand out more!
As shown above the text is in a teal blue so it stands out and its easily readable for the audience, then by having a chequered dark blue backdrop for the text it adds to the emphasis hopefully this will give the desire of a futuristic company! I need now to animate this, as if it just appears it will not be affective enough to grab the audiences attention, however it needs to be subtle so that it doesn't draw the audience's attention away from the main focus of the advert!
I decide to animate it like this
(Every 6th frame!)
From above you can see how the text boxes are revealed. I like this method of slightly animating the outline combined with the classic fade in/out effects as this is effective enough for the audience to notice but not get distracted from the main feature. Now I need to place this into the scene either at the top or bottom depending on where the main area of 'dead space' is.
(Dead spaces are areas which are not used through the scene and nothing happens, however they are large enough for the audience to notice them and think something might happen in that area!)
I decided to place the text box at the top of the scene.
However In the Image above there is a bit of dead space to the left had side where the blue light is and it seems to be ready to show something which is a major problem as it will distract the audience.
I need to fix this quickly!
I duplicated the text box and put 'Titanium structure' in the dead space to re-enforce the point of what it is made of, additionally this keeps the balance in the scene as the right hand side is dark, therefore isn't much of a problematic dead space!
I am happy with this section as it now shows off the robot arm with some interesting features and information included in the voice over and text boxes.
The next section is my robot eye piece which last time was criticised for having different themes and not staying to a set theme. This will be corrected and also will need to be improved to match the level of VFX used for the robotic arm so they are balanced.
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