Post by Vince De Quattro on Oct 20, 2004 8:25:00 GMT -8
MODULE 8: The UFO Project
Goals:
• performing a 2D track in AfterEffects™
• learning about lens effects, including contamination and flare
Assignments:
• Assignment 8.1: Dailies. Please post current progress on all shots that you have not yet received a final. Post progress for specific shots to the dailies discussion folder for that particular shot. If you are not posting for a specific shot currently in production, explain why.
• Assignment 8.2: The UFO Project. This project should simulate footage shot by a tourist visiting San Francisco, and while capturing the sights with his digital camera, he happens across a UFO. Must be rolling footage format; that is, a sequence of frames of at least 30 seconds in length. Everything else is up to you.
Reading Assignments:
• Chapter 3, The Lens from your reading material, “The Filmmaker’s Handbook.”
Discussion:
• Examine the frame. Can you spot at least five visual cues that would help you light an object to be placed somewhere near the Palace of Fine Arts? Consider the nature of the light: is it direct or diffuse? How can you tell? Are there any objects in the frame that bespeak lighting direction? What is the color of the diffuse light? How about the color of the specular light? Does shadow direction tell us anything about the light? Shadow color? Haze?
• VFX Sequence of the Week. This week’s VFX pick is from the film Star Wars Episode II (2002), starring Ewan Mc Gregor, Natalie Portman, and Hayden Christensen, with post-production effects by Industrial Light and Magic (VFX Supervisors: Dennis Murren, John Knoll). Please watch this clip with instructor commentary and discuss the strengths and weaknesses (if any) of the shot(s) presented.
Final your shot last week? Did you move your shot to the student dropoff area? Check the finals procedures on the Projects Board.
Present the dailies procedures. During the first part of class each week, students will be expected to drop their take to the ./dailies sub-directory in the student dropoff network directory.
Your movie should be in a small enough format that it will play back at reasonable speed during review.
Your movie should be head-slated using the slate template provided for you in the dailies sub-directory.
Dailies
Goals:
• performing a 2D track in AfterEffects™
• learning about lens effects, including contamination and flare
Assignments:
• Assignment 8.1: Dailies. Please post current progress on all shots that you have not yet received a final. Post progress for specific shots to the dailies discussion folder for that particular shot. If you are not posting for a specific shot currently in production, explain why.
• Assignment 8.2: The UFO Project. This project should simulate footage shot by a tourist visiting San Francisco, and while capturing the sights with his digital camera, he happens across a UFO. Must be rolling footage format; that is, a sequence of frames of at least 30 seconds in length. Everything else is up to you.
Reading Assignments:
• Chapter 3, The Lens from your reading material, “The Filmmaker’s Handbook.”
Discussion:
• Examine the frame. Can you spot at least five visual cues that would help you light an object to be placed somewhere near the Palace of Fine Arts? Consider the nature of the light: is it direct or diffuse? How can you tell? Are there any objects in the frame that bespeak lighting direction? What is the color of the diffuse light? How about the color of the specular light? Does shadow direction tell us anything about the light? Shadow color? Haze?
• VFX Sequence of the Week. This week’s VFX pick is from the film Star Wars Episode II (2002), starring Ewan Mc Gregor, Natalie Portman, and Hayden Christensen, with post-production effects by Industrial Light and Magic (VFX Supervisors: Dennis Murren, John Knoll). Please watch this clip with instructor commentary and discuss the strengths and weaknesses (if any) of the shot(s) presented.
Final your shot last week? Did you move your shot to the student dropoff area? Check the finals procedures on the Projects Board.
Present the dailies procedures. During the first part of class each week, students will be expected to drop their take to the ./dailies sub-directory in the student dropoff network directory.
Your movie should be in a small enough format that it will play back at reasonable speed during review.
Your movie should be head-slated using the slate template provided for you in the dailies sub-directory.
Dailies