For this project I really wanted to make a final piece that was impressive and a high note to end on. At the start of the year things didnt go great, and that affected my work. For the third year I wanted to create a outcome that could rival previous years, like the Halo Advert and Alien invasion short.
At first I wanted to create a Bond spoof. But that quashed early on. I started contacting people to team up but decided to go our separate ways.
At the time I had just finished Jessica Jones and really liked the character of Kilgrave in that series. So I created a narrative following a villian. Feeling like it was lacking I added a sci fi twist. And it worked for the better in the end. This allowed me to do alot more VFX.
After the pitch. I had a strong idea and fully storyboarded. I started filming straight away to get it done and move onto the effects sooner. I am very grateful for the help had during filming.
Then I moved onto the post production. I aimed to get the project done a week early, so I created a VFX shot list to keep track of my progress. I got the edit down early on to help me do this.
Effect wise this project is a stand out for my previous submissions. I was doing every type of effect shot on my own, and each had to be of a high standard. I really wanted to push the boat out on this project, and to really show my compositing skills. I enjoyed doing the effects on the most part. But shots like the Face stab effect and the hand scanner proved to be a real challenge. In hindsight, for the face shot, I should have placed tracking markers on my face. Would have made the shot so much easier to track, in the end had to use different trackers to track certain features.
During the project noticed some really bad rolling shutter on my footage, most of that was refilmed. But certain parts could not and was left with what I had. Proving a challenge to track on occasions, but got there in the end.
For this project I was very happy I used Nuke. Im still 100% comfortable with the software, but can easily jump in and know roughly where to go. I managed to do a fair amount in Nuke. Not the whole project, as hoped, as I relied back to After Effects to do the shots I knew I could do, like the hologram effects.
Overall, I think this project went quite well. Im happy with the final outcome and think it in my top 5 projects. At times the travelling to Cardiff was taking its toll, but managed to get everything done on time as planned. The effect process was quite enjoyable for the most part, but some shots did require much more work than anticipated. Nothing wrong with the filming, just the expectation for those shots had ground significantly since being filmed. I got all the shots I wanted to do done and nothing was cut out of the final piece. I was really pleased with myself to finish the project with the most effects I have done so far, and to do it single handed. Doing every effect shot, meant I could see which process I liked best. I really come to like the clean up and comping in this project. Roto proved to be a pain, but a needed necessity.
Everything that was shot was in the final piece. If I cut shots, that would make the project a failure in my eyes and wanted this to be a strong outcome. I was rather sad to see it gone and submitted in the end.
If I could change anything about this project it would be the choice of camera. The Canon 5D Mark produced some really nasty rolling shutter, and wasnt till I switched to the Mark 3 that I noticed the dramatic change in quality.
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