Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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.
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