March - 2018

Easter

Easter

As it is Easter holidays now, half of our crew has gone home. Prawta and I will be staying and working to finish off everything. During our meeting last week, I asked all the crew members who was staying here over Easter or could work from home. Most of them will be working from home, which is fine, I have uploaded the shots that they have been assigned to the Google Drive. There are still a few staying here over Easter, who will be assigned to finish shots that others will n

A heated discussion

A heated discussion

Prawta has over the last few days been editing the animatic to the way she wants all the scenes to be done, with effects. After about 2 days of her editing, the film has now come up to being 4.20 min including credits. I panicked and had a go at her for adding that much to the film that originally should only be 2.50 min and a maximum of 3 min. I told her that this was not doable in the time-frame that we have, and that we needed to cut it back down to 3 min. We had a long di

Filming - Day 3

Filming - Day 3

We started the day with major equipment issues. Due to the stores been full, the queue so long and the lady slow, our booking ran out of time and we lost all the light we had booked. We would not be getting the light back as someone else had booked it, before we could re book it. After spending about 3 hours getting equipment and setting up we were finally ready to start filming, with only 3.5 hours left of studio time. With some setbacks of the set not being what we original

Parallaxes

Parallaxes

As scene_01 has been cleaned up, I can now start doing the parallaxes and add waves and skies to them. I started doing 01_001 and 01_002 today, I have been colour correcting them to make them look warmer and more like a sunset. Prawta had a look at them and loves how they have been comped and corrected, but they have to be put in the animatic to be able to properly judge the image and how it works with the rest of the film. Here is the node tree that I created in Nuke. I like

Filming - Day 1 and Day 2

Filming - Day 1 and Day 2

After talking to Andy, he managed to book out some equipment and studio 3 for us. Even though studio 3 is not the ideal studio for us as it does not have the lighting set up that we need. As our actor was not available for today, we are using the studio to shoot all the cards (limbs) that we will need to comp into all the shots. We had Holly come in to help us out with special effect makeup. We needed makeup to make it look like severed limbs as a time saver to do it with pra

Re-animated snow days

Re-animated snow days

Today we were supposed to film Re-animated. We started filming a few bits, but due to the university shutting down at 12, we were asked to leave. We were not able to get any footage with the quality we needed. We have been promised that we will have 1st priority once uni opens back up. University opened back up on the following Monday, and we are now having massive issues. All the equipment and studios are booked out until Easter. Which is too late for us to be filming. We ha

Milestone- Rough Cut

Milestone- Rough Cut

Today was the milestone for the rough cut of the film. Some of the feedback that we got was; we need to remove the scene 07_004 where they fight and one of them gives up. Which Derek really hates as it makes no sense, and should not be in the fight as the prognosis won, would not make sense if he charge back at him. Prawta mentioned the hole and that we might keep the hole there throughout the whole film, which Kathy liked and encouraged us to do. The other lectures strongly

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