my sky shot for dave.

Grace

Seeing Green...

(green being the colour of finished shots on the shot list)

signed off on the night sky, hayley, good job.

as far as i can see the eyes are lookin good grace, i've checked off those shots now.

from lookin at the shots so far its obviouse we are gonna be doin alot of clour work tomorrow to tie it all together (that is not to say they are not lookin good as individual shots, just that when we put them together its aparent that the colours gonna vairy). but that hopefully wont take too long.

~Dave

Night Sky Shot

I got something into video format so I hope this works. Here's the night sky shot. I did the evening sky one as well earlier on in the week but I'll save it for the show reel. I just wanted to share this one as after a whole day of screaming at computer and colour correcting at snail pace on other shots (Im so AE illiterate its not funny I know T_T) this is done enough to show. I painted the backing board also in this shot and arranged the twigs on a blue screen to photo. (For those who didn't see me cellotaping things artfully to a wall in the basement XD).


~Hayley

Good stuff everybody

hey dave here are 3 more shots with eyes what do you think?




Grace

Awesome, more shots...

looking good grace, have you played about with the colour correction?

for that scene and the boat scene, i forgot to tell everyone, not to do the whole dowm with red, up with blue malark, as its ment to be still light and around afternoon just before sunset. i haven't got a deffinate colour correction for this as i haven't done one of those scens yet (james might know i'll ask him), but i pressume it'll pretty much be up with red, play about with green, and down with blue, so as to create a warmer atmosphere.

yeah i've been trying a few other methods for the eyes, none of which are perfect, how did you do yours? The eyes move around a tiny bit but that'll probably do, tis hard to tell on shuch a small vid screen.

keep up the good work...

~Dave

hey dave here u r check this....

Eyes

i am finding the eyes difficult and my computer is so slow but iv done this and am working on others,what do you think Dave?i got your text earlyer i have done this but its not quite the way you showed me how because i cant seem to make my computer do it but im still trying! Grace

Good Job Hayley...

Tis lookin good hayley, done well. as you said on the phone though, it does look a little pale/washed out, maybe tweek the levels a little bit.

if you haven't done it already...

Right click on the adjustent layer > Effects > Colour correction > levels > in this menue under the part called 'histogram' adjust only the right hand and middle upward facing arrow directly under the graph like image (theres no need to adjust the others)

you shouldn't need to do too much but this should make the image more crisp and contrasted.

to anyone reading the instructions on the post befor last...

first part was only relevent in context of what i was saying at the time to hayley (which was about adjusting the images, that you should be doing all of your sdjustments in an adjustment layer) the rest of the instructions are just about gettin started.

you all should have my number and hopefully got my text earlier, if you have any problems with after effect, no matter how stupid they sound, call me so we can sort it out quick (if you are worried about credit text me and i'll call you back).

~Dave

Is this ok?

Just posting here so David can ok my current colour correction.

Here's a comparision. Might not be 100% the same as all monitors seem different but it will give a rough idea.

~Hayley

Just to forward some instructions

David kindly wrote me some notes while he put after effects on my laptop and asked if I could upload them here as other people will probably find them helpful so heres a copy paste:

Create new adjustment layer. so you dont have to change all frames.

open after efects

create a new composition (1024 x 576 , 25fps, square pixels, field= no field - progressive scan) and folder, name them botht with the shot number and brief description


open up folder (out side oof after effects) and drag al frames into the folder you've just created, double check frames are still in order

highlight all frames and drag into the composition that you just created

with all the frames highlighted drag them all to 2 frames in length

click off and re highlight form top to botom then, right click on them > keyframe assist > sequence layers > OK

make sure composistion and work area are the right length....composision > composition settings > duration

~ Notes written by Dave posted by Hayley

hey peeps

merry xmas and hppy new year to all.

dave do you have photos of trees or general scenery that i can whack in to replace the bluescreen?if so can you email me them. thanks for that choker thigy aswell.
Grace