Our Lady of Sorrows

I love these days when we're in the holidays and I listen to funeral marches to get into the good friday spirit.

Yesterday was Our Lady of Sorrows and I made a painting of the statue in Qormi St George. 

Working on CSR Advert

One of our assignments was to do a Corporate Social Responsibility Advert. We discussed as a group we were going to do it on Cyberbullying. 

This day didn't go quite as planned. Something happened and I stayed 3 hours in the sun protecting the equipment! When I arrived home, we began filming instantly. I think we didn't set the back focus right on the JVC and filming outside came like crap. The sharpen was very bad. 

We filmed the inside also but only 2 lights were working out of 3 and we had problems setting up the lighting to ensure that there aren't any shadows. The lighting ended up being bad too in some shots.

This advert also exceeded the time limit with 18 seconds. Re-filming this advert is the best thing we can do now. 

Filming the Trailer - Behind the Scenes

These are some photos taken during filming of our trailer - 'The Darkness'

 

Me, drawing the birthmark on the character's hand.

 The classroom scene is an extra one which didn't make it in the trailer.

I was a Boom Operator in this scene.

In this scene I was an Assistant Camera Operator and I also drew the birthmark on Jake's hand.

Recording with my Weasel-Pal!

In late 2013, Pirate Weasel was born and we started Let's Plays together (co-commentary gaming). With Pirate Weasel, there is also the cameraman. This cameraman is not like any other cameraman. He controls the camera(or in some cases, starting and stopping the recordings), annoys us and also serving as a kitchen-man cooking us meals. He makes good crackers! and pizza!
We are almost finished with our first Let's Play I love working with my friend to entertain our fans! :)

Changing Black and White Photos to Colour

My lecturer showed us a way how to change a black and white photo into a coloured one. This is a very interesting thing to do since I have a lot of old photos I plan to change.

This was an exercise so I could practice doing it. 

This was the result.

I also used it in a project to change old Good Friday photos into colour. 

Producing a Fan-Made Movie - Part 4

I finally finished the Trailer for this movie I have been working on for these two weeks!
I tried putting all 4 games in one trailer, but I tried to focus more on the new content (Jak X). So 'Commentated by Jak' is for Jak X since that's the new thing, while the trilogy stays the same with Daxter.

The new release date got set to June this year but unfortunately my laptop is getting worse every day and it will never handle a 2 hour movie render! The release date had to be pushed once more to a TBA till someday I'll get a new computer.

Producing a Fan-Made Movie - Part 3

Some weeks passed and we continued posting more comparisons with my video from October to the new video.

I also showed Jak X for the first time in my editing program and the results were quite satisfying. 

Since Jak X was never released as an HD version and is only on PS2 with only 480p quality, I showed them a picture of the intro in HD. I had been working on remastering all the cutscenes since 2012. 

We finally settled a release date - Late December from about 20th-31st.

A Year had passed since the last video - October 31st. We realized we weren't going to finish it. We decided to delay it till Early 2014.