Applied Animation: Competition: Week Three: 26th February - 4th March 2018

This week was very intense. We filmed all of the live action footage for the video. The first day of filming, we moved all tables from the studio to make space to look like a clean, white set like many Microsoft adverts. We couldn't book out the dolly or gimble because we needed tutorials with both that staff didn't have time to give us in time for submission. We worked around this by me sitting on a wheelie chair and Chloe gently pulling me backward.
This shot was tricky due to timing LiamS standing up and walking away in the correct timing as the camera moved away. I was focusing on keeping the composition looking nice and balanced while also changing the focus as we got further away. This was quite fiddly and resulted in many takes which drop out of focus. However I think we did get a good result and once it has been stabilised a bit in after effects, it should look just as we want.

The only time in the photography studio we could get was on Wednesday, and this was the only free slot for another month. However, due to snowy weather, the uni had to shut early and we didn't manage to film anything. This meant we had to use the animation studio again the next day (which was empty because of the snow). We spent a lot of time setting up the lights to be evenly lighting the green-screen as this would make keying much more accurate in post. Liam was concerned about shadows being cast on the floor, however I am confident they won't be an issue when keying. The filming process all went very well and smoothly, the only issue would be some shots had parts of Liam's body clipping over the edge of the green-screen.

Over the weekend, I sorted through all the footage to find the best takes of each shot. They are all really well lit with spot on focus (bar 1 or 2 shots which were only slightly out of focus). It took me quite a while to go through all the footage to narrow down the best. I had to also find the shots that lined up cohesively with the 2 shots before and after it.
I believe the takes I have edited together are all very good and flow with each other to tell the story.