Chapter 10 Review

How To Project Rationale

 For this project, I wanted to steer away from a traditional how to instructional video. Instead, I chose to do something perhaps a little sarcastic. Funny at times, scary and gore filled and using a few elements from typical horror films I created a narrated walkthrough of scenes that I felt were in ways similar in approach to typical thriller films from the past.

 To achieve my effects, I used my old stand by, my best friend and really the star of the video, Mr. Adobe After Effects. I spent at least 80 hours of keyframing, masking, tracking and adding 3d elements to frames. I shot the majority of the scenes on Vassar College campus, along with my house and driveway. I set up my greenscreen and did a lot of chroma key work on this project, especially the vampire narration which was almost all done in front of the screen. I also brought the screen on location for the car hitting vamp scene as well as the ring parody where my daughter climbs from the well ( rock wall ). The twins are creepy scene was shot at the old psychiatric center which is mostly abandoned now and is rumored to be haunted. I would love to get in one of the old buildings with my camera one day for sure!

 Like with my other projects, I called upon my trusty family for actors. My sons girlfriend also played a few roles and my daughter did all of the makeup. I shot and edited the project over the past 2 weeks and the only real problems I had were with uploading to youtube and then once uploaded, the file could not be seen on mobile devices so for some reason would not stream from my blog, which is why I added the link.

 In all, this project was a blast. I am a die hard horror film buff and loved poking fun at the insane stereotypes associated with these films.

How To Video

 For some reason the video will not post as an embedded video. With the 3 days I have spent compressing and recompressing just to get the video to upload, I have now waved my white flag and provided the link. Sorry for the inconvenience!

How To Video

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Commercial rationale- script

 For this project, I chose to create a commercial that would be interesting yet humorous for a product that in time I am sure some scientist would think is a great idea. For all shots, I used a green screen. The shots of the scientist, who is played by my wife, were keyed over a science lab background image that I sourced online. I took the original image and tweaked it in photoshop. Once I had the separated layers, I imported into after effects to add lighting and logo’s on the computer screen. The shots of my son, who played the guinea pig for this experimental chip gone wrong were simply keyed over a solid white. This is the first project in which I used my new digital still camera for video. It shot in full 1080, so I wanted to give it a go. For this project I also ordered a much needed full lighting kit, unfortunately it did not arrive in time and actually because of the snow we received this past week is still m.i.a. So I set up the green screen in my dining room which has a large row of windows to allow natural lighting. I have a wireless sennheiser body mic that I planned to use as well, however for some reason it would not work so I had to use the built in camera mic, which is lousy. In final cut pro I edited the narration that was recorded via the camera and used the waves plug ins that I have to clean up some of the hiss. I also mixed in the foley sounds, which I sourced at freesound.org.

For the cgi work, I used after effects to make the holograms as well as particle playground to create the swarming alpha and numeric symbols. The shattering glass is actually a movie file that came with one of the Video Co-Pilot packs that I bought a few years back. I edited all of my clips in Final Cut Pro and exported to youtube.

I forgot to mention, the scene where the chip is installed was done using a still shot of my son. I imported into photoshop, created the "door" in the neck and saved as separate layers to be animated in after effects. The circuit board was an image I found online which I placed a photo of the ic chip that I bought at Radio Shack for the project. I added the lighting, glows and movement in After Effects. 

 The script-

Scientist female narration

Everyday life is boring.

That’s why the scientists at Futura industries have designed

the technology to bring the future into the present .

With the futura chip, you are the computer.

Once the chip is installed into the host, the 42 gigabyte processor overrides the major systems in the human body.

That’s not all, the chip also provides on demand web surfing for checking email or even online schooling and other technological features like the future callendar.

Test Guy

Time For My Date!

This process um… this um…. Process. ( Blank Stare. Then look horrified.)

 Oh My God!!!

RUN!!!!!!

 Scientist runs past camera

ECU of Test Guy. Smoke coming from head and neck area. Acting erratic. Eyes glowing. Charges camera.

Futura Industries……. Stop Being Boring!