Project 1 Health and Safety Talk

Before you film you should write a risk assessment to decide what risk could happen while filming what risk the actors could be at and how to reduce or get rid of the the risks. When climbing on the things you should ask someone if it is suitable and safe to climb on. When filming you should make it obvious that you are filming especially when in public places or when obstructing places like the stairs or hallway, to make it more obvious to people you should wear high visibility jackets and filming in progress sign's to make out very clear that your filming. Another thing to look out for while filming is the surface that your filming on it could be very easy to slip on and could hurt yourself another thing is when your are putting down food or fake blood for the scene you should make sure to clear it up after finishing the shot cause someone might slip on it afterwards.

Project 1 Health and Safety Sheet

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Project 1 Casting Notes

Casting Notes 

Tom
Casting Note: Boy who's average height and got brown hair and is quite shy
Would could play the role: Sam Young
Why they fit the role: Has brown hair and shy
Guy who lights cigarette
Casting Note: Average guy that smokes, average clothing
Would could play the role: Sam Clenaghan
Why they fit the role: He smokes
Guy riding flying bike
Casting Note: Boy who can ride a bike, average clothing
Would could play the role: Alex's Freind
Why they fit the role:  they have a bike we can use for the scene
Jays Mum
Casting Note: Girl who doesn't have to be a screen just needs to do a voice over
Would could play the role: Rihanna
Why they fit the role: Can do a voice over of a caring parent
Teacher
Casting Note: Boy or Girl that looks older and could play a teacher
Would could play the role: Alex's Freind
Why they fit the role:
Max
Casting Note: Boy with black hair, wears mostly black and a black hoodie
Would could play the role: Matt Beeson
Why they fit the role: Matt has black hair and looks quite intimidating
 Kid eating food
Casting Note: Average guy that gets leached by a Lecher
Would could play the role: Callum
Why they fit the role:
Jay
Casting Note: Boy with blonde hair is average height
Would could play the role: Alex Davis
Why they fit the role: Alex has blonde hair and the type of clothes Jay wears

Project 1 Contingency Plan

Nuisances                                                                                                        

Problem - Matts Facebook Addiction    Solution - Stop him going on Facebook

Problem - Green Screening a Flying Bike    Solution - Watch Tutorials  

Problem - Matts short attention span    Solution - Make sure he's doing the work 

Problem - Sound effects    Solution - Find good believable sound effects, make own sound effects 

Problem - Alex and Sam going to New York    Solution - make sure every things done before hand 

Minor Problems

Problem - Matt being camera shy    Solution - Ignore the camera 

Problem - Wardrobe    Solution - Ask people for clothing they don't want plan what we need

Problem - Having problems with premier    Solution - watch tutorials 

Problem - Working around timetable   Solution - Use time productively 

Problem - After Effects   Solution - Watch tutorials

Problem - Finishing in time   Solution - Use time productively don't waste time

Major Disasters 

Problem - Losing footage    Solution - Back up files 

Problem - Actors not being available    Solution - Plan around when they are available 

Project 1 Production Meeting

Production Meeting 6th Jan 2014

Present: Alex, Matt and Sam 

Schedule

Cast

Jay - Alex

Jays Mum (Voice Over) - 

Max - Matt

Teacher - 

Kid - Callum 

Tom - Sam  

Locations

Outside of college - Driveway to college

Classroom - F15 

Merriweather Canteen - Refectory 

Merriweather Academy Library - Long Road Library 

Discreet Roles

After Effects - Alex

Audio - Matt

Cinematography and Continuity Errors - Sam  

Project 1 Working between Premiere and After Effects

To put Premier Pro footage into After Effects you can simply just drag the footage form Premier into After Effects. You can also import them into After Effects by selecting all your clips right and clicking replace with after effect composition this will then create a new project for you in After Effects with the clips you selected in the new project. But a easy way to edit your Premier clip and have it in After Effects is to Dynamically Link Asset it but if you do change a bit of the clip in Premier you have to save it in Premier otherwise it will revert to the old save in After Effects, If you put the sequence into After Effects without saving the Premier Pro file becomes the asset instead of the sequence being the asset.        

To export a video from premier to after effects File, Export, Save Media and change the format to quick time or something thats suitable for your project. You can also do it by selecting your clips right clicking them and then click replace with after effects. Another way is by dragging the stuff from premier to after effects and clicking create new composition.

Project 1 Research and understanding mattes and matte painting

A Matte Painting is a painted version of a landscape, set, or distant location that is used in film to create the illusion of an environment or background that wouldn't be able to do in real life or to expensive to create and film. Matte Paintings where originally done by artists using paints and pastels on a large sheet of glass which was then integrated into the footage. One of the first know matte paintings was done in 1907 by Norman Dawn for the film Missions of California.To the right is a traditional matte from The Wizard of Oz. Traditional matte paintings have been used in several blockbuster movies like Raiders of the lost ark and Star Wars. I was expecting that Star Wars would have used matte paintings for a lot of there death star and space scenes I would of thought sci fi and fantasy movies would be the type of films that use matte painting the most but traditional matte paintings have been used for iconic moments in films that i wouldn't of expected to have used matte paintings like Raiders of the Lost Ark is at the end of
the film where a guy is hiding the Ark of the Covenant in a ware house full of crates. (left) I've watched Indiana Jones several times and I would of never of guessed that it was a painting.
Around 1980 matte painters where starting to created matte paintings on the computer, the first ever one created in this format was in Young Sherlock Homes by Chris Evans in 1985, the matte was of a Knight jumping through a stained-glass window. Evans did this buy painting the window then scanning it into the computer to digitally manipulate it. Then around the 1990 matte paintings where getting merged with digital composting. Digital composing merges live action footage with a traditional matte that had been photographed then scanned. One of the first films to do this was Die Hard 2 the painted matte was of several airplanes on a airport runway in the snow. Around 1997 traditional matte paintings where not being used one of the last ones was by Chris Evans for Titanic the matte was of the Carpathia rescue ship. Matte painters now combine their digital mattes with painted textures within the computer generated 3D environments which allows the camera to do 3D movement.

Walking Dead Matte Painting
From the start of the video till 52 seconds is matte painting in the Walking Dead by Maxx Burman. In the first little clip Burman mattes loads of dead bodies on the road the characters are on and this is extremely convincing when I first watched this episode I thought they would of got actors to lie on the floor. In the next clip he makes a zombies face more gross and realistic, again this looks amazing and lifelike and again when watching the episode I thought it was done it make up. In the last clip Burman makes the character laying on the floor he look like hes just been eating alive adding exposed bone and blood on him and again makes it look so realistic and believable and again when watching the episode I thought it was done with make up. Burmans work is extraordinary and amazing and its unbelievable how realistic and real it looks it is defiantly a hundred percent convincing.