Disaster Strikes!

Louise has left the course and the college, so I've been left in the lurch alone in the group. So i had the choice to either try to complete the film alone or join another group.
I decided to finish my project through, however after many, many attempts I still can't get the blue screen/green screen effect to work properly.
So, I'm going to join another group for the final part of the project. I'm joining Amber, Casey and Abby and working with them on their Vampire film.
So for now, farewell.

Editing!

I've begun to edit the film today (well, part of it using the footage we have) and so far it's going okay. I've cut together all the right parts and have amassed an impressive blooper reel.
Creating the Rec overlay is still proving troublesome. The still transparent .png image of the overlay didn't work at all, so I've had to use the 'blue screen' method, by using a Video FX in iMovie HD to overlay a still image. A Ken Burns effect was on the image and i had trouble stopping it, but i found a way eventually. When previewing the effect all looked great and, finally, I was content... however when applying the effect, the video went very strange and ultimately didn't work. So i've tried having the Rec overlay as a video (opened in a new project and exported to a video, then imported into the original project) however this has yielded similar results... I'm going to have to do some research into this problem.

--Mitch

*Rec overlay

Filming Part 1

We had our first day of filming last week, got through one sequence, eventually, learnt a few things about lighting difficulties and camera framing.

We had the actors perform a scene several times but from different camera angles, as a result, we've got plenty of outtakes, probably got enough for another film...
Going to start editing our footage (so far) together soon, see if everything works together as it should (fingers crossed).
We're going to continue filming after half term, dates have yet to be confirmed.
That's all for now! Stay tuned.

14-2-11

We were supposed to film on the 12th but due to timing issues we were unable, so today we re-planned when and where we're filming as well as booking equipment out again.
We're making sure all our actors are okay to film on wednesday the 16th.

We've sorted out what planning pieces need uploading to this blog, and shortly will be.

We've also started creating an overlay to make some of our footage look like handycam footage, however making a transparent /png to layer properly in iMovie HD has been difficult so far, we're looking to try and work it as if it were green screen footage next time.

Our titles (as a static image) are almost finished, and we've looked into whether to fade the titles in or to cut to them.

That's it for today, plenty more work to be done...