Sound is one of the aspects more important to a film, advertiser anything that will have video its necessary to have audio and sound effects, so i m really exited to understand more about sound and music and how to use them in a sequence, how to record sound effects and then edited, this techniques are very important for the conclusion of a film or other thing that include video. In my project i will be searching sound effects in particularly, sound effects are the sound for the explosions, debris, tanks moving, airplanes flying and possible steps, all of this sound effects are essential to a project like this, and i m seeing different films to see how the sound effects are used and what feeling they transmit to the audience, so that in my project i will know what to record and to use for a specific part of the scene to transmit the correct feeling so i am really exited to start to work withe sound effects and to apply them into my project and see the final result that i expected to be awesome.
Other important aspect will be the sound sequence, i am going to use different sound sequences for my short film that will create in garage bad, i m still doing the research to see what kind of style to music that i should use, i know that will have to be an intense and dangerous style of music, but there are a lot of options in that kind of style, so for now i m listening sound sequences with a similar style that i mention before, and seeing films related to my theme and paying attention to the sound that professionals used for a specific scene, so i m still in the beginning of research related to the audio and the newt few weeks i will have a more conclude decision of what to use and create related to audio and sound effects.
This week i deliver the task 1 and 2 for this module, i create a mood assignment, with same video a create different emotions with the use of sound effects, in the first movie i create a horror style, using traditional sound effects of horror films, chainsaw, screams, steps and storms, i download this samples from a web site called free sound then i edited them in soundtrack pro, i apply an EQ, filter and reverb to get the echo feeling this because all the footage is inside a building, the James Graham building, it worked really nice everything together and in the end when we saw the video we can see the horror emotion that the video transmit to the viewer, the other one is with the same footage but with different emotions, basically i create a normal school day this because the footage is in a education building, i apply an environment sound, child playing outside, school bell and children laughs, i used the same techniques as i used before in the first film, overall both of the footage worked really nice and i m very happy with the final result, i transmit the emotion i want and the viewers can see that when they watch both films.
Friday
Negotiated Skills Development
I will be develop skills that will be very important to my final project. Visual effects, video edition and 3D modules, will be essential to achieve my project, so this will be the skills that i want to develop.
Im going to look how visual effects are created and how they are apply in specific content, like explosions, debris, fire, smoke and fire guns, all this visual are very important to my final project, a short film about war, and to achieve this skills i had to make a lot of research about these themes, i search on books, tutorials, in the professional industry to see how professionals work and create their visual effects and witch kind of software they use and why. After all this research that is not finished yet, i did some tests to see how it work, and i already did some in previous projects for university, i really liked the final result and got more knowledge of the of visual effects. Video edition will be the last part of my project, and possible the most important part of the project, because its important in any film or short film to have an excellent edition, so that we can pass the right message to the people, choosing the best scenes and putting the right transitions is really important to the final product as well the synchronisation of the audio with video, thats not very easy to do, but with knowledge and the correct software its possible to put the audio as well the sound effects in the correct position, it will make a the video much more realistic and thats one of my aims for this project. 3D elements will be a major skill that i have to achieve, i am not a 3D person, i prefer video so i m doing this project all by myself and i will have to do everything, but i thing that will not be a problem, but about 3D i will have to create modules, military models and animated and putting them into real footage with the help of matchmover a software that track 3D objects, other big thing will be the use of particles system to create the debris for an explosion, pf sources, drag, force and gravity will be essential for the debris, because is the only way that i can create a specific debris for an explosion, i will be using 3ds max to create all of this, is the only 3D software that i know how to use and used before, but still i have to make a lot of research on this 3D subjects to achieve the best final result.
As said before i will be doing a short film about war, so for this module i will be doing a trailer that will announce the short film, and in this trailer will have different scenes all of them with visual effects and 3D elements, so we can have a generally view about the story and the scenes that will appear in the short film, i m searching a lot of trailers related with war and others related with action movies, so that i have a lot of visual research and get great ideas for my trailer and to see how trailers are made witch scenes are best to use on a trailer, because often we see trailers that we can already now the story and the meaning of the film, and that is a message that i don t want to pass with my trailer.
After my research i start to build the trailer, i had some issues related with fumefx, this because i don t have memory enough to simulate in high definition, so the explosions didn't look real as i wanted, besides that the rest of the animation went really well, the 3D elements and the real footage worked really nice together, and the smoke and the fire from the airplanes were well constructed, with trapcode particular i manage to simulate real smoke and fire, for the tanks and airplanes, i build some shockwaves so that the scenes will look muck more realistic, because that was my aim for this product look the most realistic possible, and to develop and learn new techniques, such as simulating explosions and adding elements to that explosion to look better. In the end the final result was really good, but i would change the voices in the trailer, its a deep voice to much deep and sometimes we don t understand what he says, but besides that the rest is really good and i really enjoy it to do this project where i learn new techniques in compositing as i said before, and developed other techniques to a professional way. This is the link to watch the trailer, enjoy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5ORXChOAo
Im going to look how visual effects are created and how they are apply in specific content, like explosions, debris, fire, smoke and fire guns, all this visual are very important to my final project, a short film about war, and to achieve this skills i had to make a lot of research about these themes, i search on books, tutorials, in the professional industry to see how professionals work and create their visual effects and witch kind of software they use and why. After all this research that is not finished yet, i did some tests to see how it work, and i already did some in previous projects for university, i really liked the final result and got more knowledge of the of visual effects. Video edition will be the last part of my project, and possible the most important part of the project, because its important in any film or short film to have an excellent edition, so that we can pass the right message to the people, choosing the best scenes and putting the right transitions is really important to the final product as well the synchronisation of the audio with video, thats not very easy to do, but with knowledge and the correct software its possible to put the audio as well the sound effects in the correct position, it will make a the video much more realistic and thats one of my aims for this project. 3D elements will be a major skill that i have to achieve, i am not a 3D person, i prefer video so i m doing this project all by myself and i will have to do everything, but i thing that will not be a problem, but about 3D i will have to create modules, military models and animated and putting them into real footage with the help of matchmover a software that track 3D objects, other big thing will be the use of particles system to create the debris for an explosion, pf sources, drag, force and gravity will be essential for the debris, because is the only way that i can create a specific debris for an explosion, i will be using 3ds max to create all of this, is the only 3D software that i know how to use and used before, but still i have to make a lot of research on this 3D subjects to achieve the best final result.
As said before i will be doing a short film about war, so for this module i will be doing a trailer that will announce the short film, and in this trailer will have different scenes all of them with visual effects and 3D elements, so we can have a generally view about the story and the scenes that will appear in the short film, i m searching a lot of trailers related with war and others related with action movies, so that i have a lot of visual research and get great ideas for my trailer and to see how trailers are made witch scenes are best to use on a trailer, because often we see trailers that we can already now the story and the meaning of the film, and that is a message that i don t want to pass with my trailer.
After my research i start to build the trailer, i had some issues related with fumefx, this because i don t have memory enough to simulate in high definition, so the explosions didn't look real as i wanted, besides that the rest of the animation went really well, the 3D elements and the real footage worked really nice together, and the smoke and the fire from the airplanes were well constructed, with trapcode particular i manage to simulate real smoke and fire, for the tanks and airplanes, i build some shockwaves so that the scenes will look muck more realistic, because that was my aim for this product look the most realistic possible, and to develop and learn new techniques, such as simulating explosions and adding elements to that explosion to look better. In the end the final result was really good, but i would change the voices in the trailer, its a deep voice to much deep and sometimes we don t understand what he says, but besides that the rest is really good and i really enjoy it to do this project where i learn new techniques in compositing as i said before, and developed other techniques to a professional way. This is the link to watch the trailer, enjoy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5ORXChOAo
Wednesday
Post Production
This is my favourite module of all of them, is the one that i would like follow in my professional life, editing compositing everything related with post production, and in this module i learn relly good techniques using motion, tracking and blue or green screen, in the green screen i taped myself with a green screen behind and made an interview, then in motion i deleted the green screen and had some pictures about my universite this because the interview was about the course we were taken in the university, and some random videos that i did in my undergraduate course in the same university, after that i apply some color correction to the movie to show more realistic and it worked really well, and i found the best resolution and codecs to export to broadcast in the UK, 720p25, this gives the best quality to the movie and its perfect for broadcasting, in the tracking project in motion to, i had an idea to make an 30s advert to National Geographic, i had some footage with free copywrite about nature and the environment, and i used some elements that appear in the footage to track them, and i pass the track movent to an word, we can to anything a word or an object, so i used different words in different clips and track them together and it worked really nice, and with this two projects i learn a lot basically in tracking, that is a powerfull tool and i didn t know how to work realy nice with the tracking, and that project helped me a lot to discover the techniques behind the tracking process and that process can be very useful for a lot of things and for different kind of projects, and for sure i will be using soon the tracking tool especially in my coloborative practive i will be tracking the 3d stone into to the building.
The next step in post production will be to put a 3d object into the real world and work in 3d spaces, in motion, this a process that i have already some knoledge, but a thing that i really want to learn and i will, will be tracking 3d with real video, that will be very interesting and useful for future projects, and that class will be tomorrow, so im very excited to have that class and learn another realy important tool for post production.
The post production modules has finished, and i really enjoy this module i learn a lot of things that are very useful for me. like tracking, green screen and after effects techniques, this modules improve my skills in after effects a lot, and it help me for future projects like the masters project the war short film, the tracking part will be very important in my final project. Post production is area that i really like to work and in the future i will like to work in this area, and develop much more to be a professional post production person, this module was the start of that, the projects that i did for this module were really good and the marks say that, so in the future i hope to achieve my dream and work in a professional studio doing post production.
The next step in post production will be to put a 3d object into the real world and work in 3d spaces, in motion, this a process that i have already some knoledge, but a thing that i really want to learn and i will, will be tracking 3d with real video, that will be very interesting and useful for future projects, and that class will be tomorrow, so im very excited to have that class and learn another realy important tool for post production.
The post production modules has finished, and i really enjoy this module i learn a lot of things that are very useful for me. like tracking, green screen and after effects techniques, this modules improve my skills in after effects a lot, and it help me for future projects like the masters project the war short film, the tracking part will be very important in my final project. Post production is area that i really like to work and in the future i will like to work in this area, and develop much more to be a professional post production person, this module was the start of that, the projects that i did for this module were really good and the marks say that, so in the future i hope to achieve my dream and work in a professional studio doing post production.
Colloborative Project
This project is a group project about the quarry in portland stone, is a project to a client and if our project is chosen it will pass on the 2012 London Olympic game. In our group there are 5 persons and i am responsible for the special effects and 3d animation, the rest of the group is the sound, 2d animations and dvd authoring and our idea is to make an interactive dvd about the portland stone, and we decided to do different animations about the portland stone, about the history the building where they used portland stone and the techniques to extrat the stone from the quarry, the animations i was responsible were the explosion in the quarry, the slideshows of random buildings that contain portland stone and a 3d stone coming out from a building and resposnible for the final editing, the name of our group is pedraproductions, and we have a website where if anyone is interested to know about more can visited and see the animations and our ideas http://pedraproductions.webs.com/. I m realy enjoing to work in this group we are getting really well with each other, and everybody is happy with the work so far, and we have an exellent chance to be the chosen project, our project will be about 3 min lenght full of animations that we created, and each member of the group is working realy hard to get the best quality in the project and we are in a good way to that happens, and all the presentations so far went really well i can say exelent like a professional group, words said by our teachers, and we are very optimist for the final product, and when the sound effects will be sycronize with the video, will be an amazing dvd, and so far everybody did the work that was responsible for, we had some problems with 3d modules because of some textures but now everything is solved, and we can start to focus on the final editind and the creation of the real dvd, that we have to present next week, so we have to continue with the hard work and make the best project ever.
Two days to our final presentation, and the project is already finished, i edited all the final piece in final cut, and i am waiting for the sound that the sound guys are doing so that i can sycronize with the video, and the group will be ready for the presentation, and the overall project is really good and we hope all to have a good mark. My favourite part of this project was when i apply the trapcode particular in to the quarry explosion, i really enjoy to do that because that is my big research, special effects, and i think the final product went really well, and i will continue to work with trapcode and try new things, and the next step will be to destroy a building with a tank using trapcode particular and particles systems in 3ds max, will be awesome.
Two days to our final presentation, and the project is already finished, i edited all the final piece in final cut, and i am waiting for the sound that the sound guys are doing so that i can sycronize with the video, and the group will be ready for the presentation, and the overall project is really good and we hope all to have a good mark. My favourite part of this project was when i apply the trapcode particular in to the quarry explosion, i really enjoy to do that because that is my big research, special effects, and i think the final product went really well, and i will continue to work with trapcode and try new things, and the next step will be to destroy a building with a tank using trapcode particular and particles systems in 3ds max, will be awesome.
Research Practice
Hi, in my masters of Digital Video and Special Effects, i am learning new skills and techniques in all areas of this subject, in this part Research Practice i m learning how to develop my reseacrh about a theme that i enjoy, especially in special effects, editing and post production it will help me to research in a specif theme in this areas, and make a deep research so i understand the use and how its developed in the industry, searching in the internet, books, journals and online journals, one of my class that i had explain me how to use the online library of my university, how to research, where to find the right articles about a specific a theme and how to make a more advanced research about a specif subject, so that lesson was very useful and now i can use the library online in any part of the globe. I star to do some research about some techniques in speciall effects and post production, i search for tutorials about motion 4, to get more skills on the program but one big research that i m starting to do is about trapcode particular, http://www.trapcode.com/ or http://www.redgiantsoftware.com, trapcode is a plug in for After effects and there is not a lot of information about that and is not very cheap especially if you are not a student, but there is a really cool website with a lot of tutorials about after effect and trapcode particular that are very useful for me and helped me a lot in my projects, www.videocopilot.net, trapcode is basically a plug in that creates really cool 3D particles such as Puffy white clouds, shiny bubbles, swirling dust motes, rain, falling snow, realistic smoke, or flocking birds all of this is possible with trapcode particular and we don t need to leave after effects.
Now that i start to think about my masters project, i have much more confident to use trapcode in my project and after doing a lot of research about this and watch a lot of tutorials, because i think in this area tham i m study with pass of the years i realize that we learn much better and quicker watching tutorials and doing them, rsearching in a book in my area is not the best thing to do, there are a lof of DvDs with exercises on in, and is much easier to understand, i m talking about the experience that i had researching books sometimes were a little boring and not complete accurate about somethings. So to research about speciall effects i will be using much more internet references then books and specially trapcode that doesn t have a lot of information about it, i have to make a deep research and go to books and all the material that i can have access, other part of the special effects is particles in 3D smax im doing some projects using particles in 3D for the first time and they are very useful but not very easy to understand, and didn t find yet a lot of information about that.
I had class in last weeks and it was with a lady that told us to think in a subject that we were like to work on investigate do some experiments and try to understand that subject, i chosen Motion Capture but i didnt know what to do in motion capture i knew it that i want to do something and add some speciall effects, but till today im still thinking what can i do. I used motion capture before and i really enjoyed and there was a program call motion builder that we put a 3d character and it will do the same animation that we did, thats a good program for 3d artists, i m more a composer, but still i really enjoy to use that program but especially motion capture where i used the suite withe the sensors and was really funnt, so no im seeing some made of movies and games that use motion capture, live Avatar and football games, and try to get an idea for a project mine where i would like to combine motion capture with speciall effects and video, that only can be a great a result and i know that i have to be aware the ethics of doing a projects like that, what can i do, what can i say and what can i show, i had a class about ethics in animation and my teacher show us different clips from animations like family guy, american dad, english comedy from the 80s and etc, all of them were realy funny, but in the end the main thing was to know if some jokes will be agrresive for some people, like cultures, races, and countrys and think not, not at all, i think animation the sky is the limit is made to be funny and not real, is made to make peoples laugh and watch again and laugh again, because its animation its characters that dont exixt only exist on the computer and i think most of the animations or cartoons are made to be funny and to joke with everybody in everypalces, the only thing that i support is to show wicth age is the animation suitable for, kids or adults, i think is the only barrer that can exist in the world of animation and cartoons, not all the cartoons are for kinds most of them are but not all of them, and i love to watch cartoons and i always laugh a lot. I didn t like to make one because my area of interest is not 3D, is more composting and thats is where im going to continue with my reasearch and try to find new things and get ideas for my project, a teacher once told the best way to find good ideas is to watch our favourite movies, i think im going to start to do it.
Last session i discover a new software call hacker kinect by microsoft, this program allows to do 3D in real time, we just need a computer and we can do a lot of things with our selfs using 3d, we can out bigger smaller and draw 3d shapes around us in real time, is a nice program for people interesting in 3D, but i will not use this kind of software in my masters project, i am searching for special effects programs like particle illusion, that is a really good program with a lot of effects, and will help me t achieve what i want to do in the final project, i don t have yet the idea what is going to be, but softwares like that will help me to achieve my goals.
In this last weeks of the module i have done a lot of research regarding to my theme war short film and i realise that are a lot of different ways to do special and visual effects, powerful plug ins helps to create and simulate realistic explosions, smoke, and riffle shots, with this plug ins i will be able to achieve my goals and aims and to complete my final product, getting the highest quality possible and the most realistic possible this will be only possible with a great colour correction and with the quality of the render in 3d smax. Overall my research was very useful for my project i found new techniques of creating special effects, found software that will be useful for high quality like Fusion5 and research on professional films and series helped me know what to do and how to get the same style in all the scenes, so i m very excited with the final result of my project.
Now that i start to think about my masters project, i have much more confident to use trapcode in my project and after doing a lot of research about this and watch a lot of tutorials, because i think in this area tham i m study with pass of the years i realize that we learn much better and quicker watching tutorials and doing them, rsearching in a book in my area is not the best thing to do, there are a lof of DvDs with exercises on in, and is much easier to understand, i m talking about the experience that i had researching books sometimes were a little boring and not complete accurate about somethings. So to research about speciall effects i will be using much more internet references then books and specially trapcode that doesn t have a lot of information about it, i have to make a deep research and go to books and all the material that i can have access, other part of the special effects is particles in 3D smax im doing some projects using particles in 3D for the first time and they are very useful but not very easy to understand, and didn t find yet a lot of information about that.
I had class in last weeks and it was with a lady that told us to think in a subject that we were like to work on investigate do some experiments and try to understand that subject, i chosen Motion Capture but i didnt know what to do in motion capture i knew it that i want to do something and add some speciall effects, but till today im still thinking what can i do. I used motion capture before and i really enjoyed and there was a program call motion builder that we put a 3d character and it will do the same animation that we did, thats a good program for 3d artists, i m more a composer, but still i really enjoy to use that program but especially motion capture where i used the suite withe the sensors and was really funnt, so no im seeing some made of movies and games that use motion capture, live Avatar and football games, and try to get an idea for a project mine where i would like to combine motion capture with speciall effects and video, that only can be a great a result and i know that i have to be aware the ethics of doing a projects like that, what can i do, what can i say and what can i show, i had a class about ethics in animation and my teacher show us different clips from animations like family guy, american dad, english comedy from the 80s and etc, all of them were realy funny, but in the end the main thing was to know if some jokes will be agrresive for some people, like cultures, races, and countrys and think not, not at all, i think animation the sky is the limit is made to be funny and not real, is made to make peoples laugh and watch again and laugh again, because its animation its characters that dont exixt only exist on the computer and i think most of the animations or cartoons are made to be funny and to joke with everybody in everypalces, the only thing that i support is to show wicth age is the animation suitable for, kids or adults, i think is the only barrer that can exist in the world of animation and cartoons, not all the cartoons are for kinds most of them are but not all of them, and i love to watch cartoons and i always laugh a lot. I didn t like to make one because my area of interest is not 3D, is more composting and thats is where im going to continue with my reasearch and try to find new things and get ideas for my project, a teacher once told the best way to find good ideas is to watch our favourite movies, i think im going to start to do it.
Last session i discover a new software call hacker kinect by microsoft, this program allows to do 3D in real time, we just need a computer and we can do a lot of things with our selfs using 3d, we can out bigger smaller and draw 3d shapes around us in real time, is a nice program for people interesting in 3D, but i will not use this kind of software in my masters project, i am searching for special effects programs like particle illusion, that is a really good program with a lot of effects, and will help me t achieve what i want to do in the final project, i don t have yet the idea what is going to be, but softwares like that will help me to achieve my goals.
In this last weeks of the module i have done a lot of research regarding to my theme war short film and i realise that are a lot of different ways to do special and visual effects, powerful plug ins helps to create and simulate realistic explosions, smoke, and riffle shots, with this plug ins i will be able to achieve my goals and aims and to complete my final product, getting the highest quality possible and the most realistic possible this will be only possible with a great colour correction and with the quality of the render in 3d smax. Overall my research was very useful for my project i found new techniques of creating special effects, found software that will be useful for high quality like Fusion5 and research on professional films and series helped me know what to do and how to get the same style in all the scenes, so i m very excited with the final result of my project.
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