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EVALUATION

For my fear season ident i filmed and edited a 20 second film. overall i feel that it is asuccess and im proud of what iv done and learnt in the brief. the idea i had was that everybody has a dark, so bring it out and watch the channel 4 fear season. then i started to think about having someone merge into their dark side. so i then story boarded it using amematix because i could really draw what i wanted to achieve. at that point i didn't know what background to use and that i wanted to use the HD camera so i decided to do it in green screen, i feel that that was the best thing to do and wouldn't change that. when it came to filming i got a friend to do the acting and he did a great job. when it came to the green screening my key worked well but could have been better i had to play around in keylight to get it right. if i was to film it again i would have got the actor to do some more in-depth choreography and hold in certain position screaming so i could get a better effect. i feel i did ok with the make up and make the viewer know that it was from good side to dark. i just used a halloween make up kit for that. if i could i would have got jodie my friend who did our last horror film make up to come but i couldn't get hold of her. when coming to editing i did the whole ident edit in final cut before taking it into after effect i did this because i had had to cut the footage up to much for after effects. so after getting the ident in the order to my story board i took it into after effects. i dropped the final cut ident in to after effect and the first thing i did was use the keylight to take the green away. i started playing around with the footage as iv shown on my blog, using twixtor, warping, magic bullet etc. but after this i decided to just use the quick cutting in and out effect. i would have use more twixtor and plug in like that if i thought about getting the actor to hold in certain positions for longer to get that slow mo warping effect like Chris Cunninghan does. i had to do a little tutorial on keylight in after effects because when i put a black background behind it you could see some green. so i think next time i use green screen im going to take extra time in setting up the light pointing at the green screen so the are not hot spots, shadows or creases in the screen. when it came to sound i used some sound for soundtrack pro and did some myself. i would like to try do my own sounds on my next brief but i was tied up for time on this brief. the voice at the end is me and i sound like a girl, but it is quite freaky. i wanted the sound to be really intense and in you face so when it came on your TV it made you jump and feel disturbed and i hope it works. at the end of the ident i only flashed up the title and logo because i wanted to make people think more about the advert "what was that about" then they will be intrigued to watch it again.

SCREEN SHOTS

This is hat i did i used the tutorial and a bit of freestyle in keylight to get the shot darker and with no green round the edges.

DESPILLING

On my green screen after keying it out and putting in a black background i could see some green round the actor as the moved really fast so i used the despill bias to get rid of that. i went though the tutorial in advanced keying that you get with after effects. i helped me loads.,

TWIXTOR OR NOT?

This is with a lot of twixtor on it to give that morphing effect. this time i didn't slow it down i just changed the motion sensitivity and put motion weighted blend on. i dont think going to im going to use this effect in my final piece. i prefer the choppy feel for doing it in final cut.

TOYING WITH BACKGROUNDS?

ok i put the background images into after effects and i didn't really like the look of the compared to the black that i thought was going to be good. but i feel that it was a good idea to research some backgrounds. i was looking to get a background with a normal look but again with a freaky feel.

BACKGROUND IDEAS?

I got a digital SLR and went out and looked for some grimy backgrounds. i took quite a lot of images but these are some that i though might look ok. but in my mind i thought that it was going to look really good just with a black background so i keeps all the focus on the character.