MCAST Reflective Journal
Tuesday 26 May 2015
Friday 1 May 2015
Monday 27 April 2015
Unit 64: Old Parallax
Old Parallax:
Tips: Masking - brackets increase/decrease size of brush.
- B Brush Tool
- X Changes between colour palette
- W Quick Selection.
- E Eraser
- Z Zoom
With brush (black) hardness 100% we select the subjects. Q gets Mask
Select - Save Selection
Select - Save Selection again and this time we select channel 'Ladies'
Click Selection tool and Refine Edge.
Refine Edges -1/-2
Save Selection again. Select inverse -Delete
For background - Load Selection - 'Ladies' and press backspace/delete - Undo
Edit - Fill
Use Content-Aware - OK.
Spot Healing Brush
Move to After Effects
Custom Camera 1 and move the background forward. Scale the background.
Create a Custom Camera 35mm.
Puppet Tool and Puppet Stretch Tool. Using Keyframes animate the characters.
Tips: Masking - brackets increase/decrease size of brush.
- B Brush Tool
- X Changes between colour palette
- W Quick Selection.
- E Eraser
- Z Zoom
With brush (black) hardness 100% we select the subjects. Q gets Mask
Select - Save Selection
Select - Save Selection again and this time we select channel 'Ladies'
Click Selection tool and Refine Edge.
Refine Edges -1/-2
Save Selection again. Select inverse -Delete
For background - Load Selection - 'Ladies' and press backspace/delete - Undo
Edit - Fill
Use Content-Aware - OK.
Spot Healing Brush
Move to After Effects
Custom Camera 1 and move the background forward. Scale the background.
Create a Custom Camera 35mm.
Puppet Tool and Puppet Stretch Tool. Using Keyframes animate the characters.
Wednesday 15 April 2015
Friday 10 April 2015
Test Pieces
Compositing
using Green Screen
For this test piece I planned
a car scene but I thought that would be a little hard to light without proper
equipment. Then I came with the idea of making a ‘Mug shot’ scene. That whole
scene would be filmed as a sequence shot. For that, I will have to book the
studio. So that it won’t be a boring short scene, I want it to have a bit of
comedy in it. The idea for it is: A person has just got arrested and while the
warden is trying to take a mug shot, the person doesn’t move complaining the
right side is his best side and he can just flip it for the left one. When the
warden shouts at him to just move, the prisoner gets mad and starts yelling at
the warden. The warden will call the other prisoner to come in and skips the
other one because he was wasting his time.
Filming Date:
Filming
will be held on the 14th of April in the MCAST TV Studio from 13:30
onwards.
Equipment we will be in need of:
·
Canon 600D
DSLR
·
Tripod
·
Lighting
Rig consisting of Cyc lights, Key Lights and Fill lights
·
Romy Lights
to Light the Subject
·
VIDEO MIC
for Sound
Other Help (Green Screen Setting and Lights) – Jayden Borg, Brandon Borg
Motion
Tracking
For
this test piece I will record the Sky and try to replace it via Motion
Tracking. I will try to make it interesting with colors and using different
clouds to have a much nicer background.
Motion
Graphics
For Motion Graphics, I will
do an opening for my YouTube channel DaxterMaster, Pirate Weasel and the Cameraman.
Using Photoshop I will create a background based on the video game series of
Jak and Daxter (since that is what the channel is based on). Then, a bright flash will be used and my
logo that I created by drawing and Photoshop will be shown. The logo will come
out of the screen like a 3D object and that will end the opening.
Unit 64: Chroma Keying
Green Screen Keying:
- Create Gray Solid below the footage.
- Create Magenta Solid.
- Create White Solid.
- Pen Tool
Mask around the subject. Rotobezier may come in handy. Press 'M' to see Mask Path. Press M twice to see Mask Feather etc.
To remove grainy footage go to Screen Matte - Replace Method - Black colour - Source
- Create Gray Solid below the footage.
- Create Magenta Solid.
- Create White Solid.
- Pen Tool
Mask around the subject. Rotobezier may come in handy. Press 'M' to see Mask Path. Press M twice to see Mask Feather etc.
To remove grainy footage go to Screen Matte - Replace Method - Black colour - Source
These were some inspiring and helpful tutorials to help me in keying the short Test Piece.
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