9/23/24
Data wrangling
After I gave my group the footage we shot yesterday, they went over and added it to the current iteration of our previs. Today we are working on our presentation, and after reviewing the footage,we have decided to re shoot. Framing wise, the shots were correct, the major reason why we are going to re shoot is because of the pacing and continuity. We will be shooting this upcoming weekend (Friday and Saturday), with the Blackmagic Camera from the Cage at Montgomery Hall.
Additionally, as we are using a different camera from last time, I am going to create a chart that is going to have all of the specific camera settings per shot, to match what we shot in the past that we liked, such as fstop, shutter speed, iso, frame rate, focal length, color temperature, and camera height from both the subject and the floor.
9/24/24
Class 5
Feedback today from the mentors was extremely helpful. The specific feedback for the compositing and suggestion of looking into VTMatte scripts is so so fascinating, I plan on working on studying the code tomorrow and testing it with the footage we had shot already. Additionally, increasing the depth for the shots is going to be implemented when we go to shoot as suggested by the mentors. In order to make sure its much more prominent I have reserved the black magic camera from the cage to use and am planning for before shooting having the settings for the camera ready and shoot plates and assets in those settings to also help create the scene extension.
9/25/24
Planning & Reworks
As I was starting to test the VTMatte software after reading through the documentation and paper, I found that VTMatte was doing very similar technology to sodium vapor lights. This technology was what was used to create the original Mary Poppins, and to create a practically perfect matte by using a beam splitter to pull the color of the sodium vapor lights out of the original image with the actor and project that shadow into another layer of film making essentially a holdout matte. VTMatte essentially does the same thing but for the edges specifically where it can sometimes be very tricky to Rotoscope and/or key out.
After we had gone through our notes from feedback day, something we had found story wise that was mentioned a bit from the mentors and professors was the question of where the skittles had come from. So we went outside of the box literally by taking the idea of the painter, and the things the mentors enjoyed about our story and pushed it into a frame. The painter is in a painting, and from someone in a museum is where they get the skittles, from a bystander crossing through.
9/26/24
Storms & Prepping to shoot v2
I just picked up the equipment to reshoot Saturday after prepping and finalizing the pacing of our shoot. As the hurricane is supposed to hit later today, I'm not sure how much I will be able to do up until Saturday for shoot day, but I just put together a quick comp of our final previs before shooting!
9/27/24
Shoot tomorrow! Not much else I can do to prep as the storm had hit and knocked out a large majority of the power grid, and internet. I am writing this on my hotspot, but alas we are still set to shoot tomorrow, rather then at Alexander, due to it being so close to the water, we are going back to my original ideal location, Wallin, as they have large painting rooms, lots of natural light and plenty of room to dress the set unlike what our first shoot location was. Here also are macro reference images that I took to help Kulin with the lookdev of the skittles themselves.
