Sorting footage.

Once we had the footage, I uploaded it all to my PC, I then created folders for both cameras and also created a folder I could place random footage in. The task was to sort through footage and find what was usable, and also to connect footage from each camera for each scene as we had two rolling at the same time. It was obvious when we left filming for the day that we might not have enough footage, but when I dwindled it down it was clear that we only maybe had 1 min max of clean cut footage. This is not enough for what we want. The next step is to get together as a group and discuss whether we do another day of filming, or we look at taking another approach.

This is a image of the cameras we were using.

This is a concept for the opening sequence I had been working on, it maybe only a couple of seconds long, but took nearly a day and a half to complete.

I first did the smoke title, which was done by a tutorial on Youtube. This may sound simple but I still had to add in my own calculations and attributes to create the smoke, I also had to have each letter transforming from smoke into a solid letter with the use of key framing a mask at the precise time the smoked moved across the letters. I then flattened the worded title, and placed the footage of Aly picking up the flower. This was a learning step as the footage was very shakey and I had to apply the warp stabilizer VFX to stabilize and get the best footage I could out of that shot. Once this was all done I imported the file to Final Cut pro, and gave the footage a 'orange and teal' filter. This type of filter is similar to the colour filter they use in Micheal Bays Transformers movies and give the footage a dark vibrancy which I quite like.

This is the out come of that work.