Emry Williams @emrywilliams-blog1 - Tumblr Blog

This is the final result of my work. I’m really happy with how it turned out. I know there's definitely a lot of room for improvement like the colour grade on the 3D object could be tweaked as I do look a bit cartoonish but overall, I think the reflections are working nicely and the light seems to be reflecting correctly. the track is smooth and the slight movement I’ve added in has given the artifact a more alien feeling which I like.

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This is my Nuke script. I really enjoyed using Nuke to track and comp this project. The camera tracker within nuke is very effective and using a hdri was so simple once I did a bit of research. I didn't like how the phong node worked I found it quite limiting but I'm sure if I had researched a bit more there would be a lot more I could do. I really think you should be able to use the material from cinema 4d in Nuke but I'm not sure if that’s possible.

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I used this video to learn how to make a hdri

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After Effects Trouble

For some reason, although the track within after-effects were perfect when I exported it to cinema 4D, the track bounces all over the place so I’ve decided to export the model as an FBX file and use Nuke to composite it.

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Me and my girlfriend went on holiday to Gran Canaria and I thought this would be a prime opportunity to film in an interesting location. I was happy with the shot the handheld movements would make for an interesting track and the composition was nice.

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this is the image that gave me the inspiration.

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Change of plans

I decided that the last project I gave in wasn't good enough to give in again so decided to start a new project. My new idea is based on a picture I saw of a 3D render. My Idea is to track in an alien artifact to be floating in a public area. I will be using a HDRI to integrate it nicely into the shot.

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This Is the outcome of my project. I added more speed ramp shots and I changed the ending to a more suitable one for the narrative. I also changed the part of the edit where Olivers losing his chips to cut between him and the chips to show that they're his and he's losing everything.

I’m really happy with the outcome of this project and feel it was a success and that we've achieved what we set out to. If I had the opportunity to do this project again, I would maybe get more shots of the cards and spend some more time with the framing of some shots, but all in all, I think this project was a success.

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This Was the edit after importing the shots we got during the reshoots. I also changed some timings to match better with the edit like where the cards were being laid down I cut to Olives face in between to 1 - break up that schene a bit more as I wasn't happy with it and it was too repetitive and 2 - to push the narrative that it’s about him and how important these cards are to him personally.

I also added in a speed ramp shot, as suggested, after speaking to Geraint. I really like the look of this shot and am planning to add a few more like it throughout the edit.

I’m not happy with the ending as it currently stands because it doesn't fit with the narrative. In my interpretation of this story, he has just lost everything but the shot is kind of emotionless. I’m going to change the last shot to be of him sitting in the dark the red lights are gone and only the spotlight on. I’ve decided to use this shot because it makes him look small and broken. We filmed this shot without any red light because the danger was now gone he’d lost everything and had nothing left to lose. We wanted to make him look small so moved the camera back further and we got more of the black background in to convey hopelessness.

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I wanted to see how the footage looked after a colour grade. I knew the look I was going for from the get-go, so it wasn't too hard to crack on and get a successful grade.

I knew going into the project I wanted to push the reds in this video to represent the dangers and pain found in addiction. I also wanted to push the contrast up to make a more dark and hopeless feeling in the video because its a feeling so many people in this situation feel.

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Narrative

I want to push the narrative more than the last edit did. I feel I’ve gotten too caught up in the cinematography and how nice the shots look and lost the story I'm trying to get across.

I want to really push a gambling addiction narrative. I'm going to do this by following the story we set out in our storyboard. The story is a series of poker games, the main character (Oliver) starts off the first games winning and gaining lots of chips represented by the chips falling in slow motion and the chip stack increasing but then starts losing it all represented by the reverse shots towards the end of the video. I feel I need to capture more of the emotion in losing all this money and yet caring on because he’s caught in the grips of gambling addiction.

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After Finishing the shoot, I jumped straight into editing. This was the result of my initial full edit. I'm really happy with the pace and the footage. I think the Lighting and the camera work was really strong.

I feel we definitely will need to do a reshoot as I found myself using the same footage more than I would have like to fill gaps in the narrative which really takes away from the story.

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This was our truly inspirational storyboard/piece of modern art.

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Update

Me and Josh decided that we both wanted to make an edit as we both had slightly different visions of how it should look. We both want to pursue editing in the future and wanted something we could take credit for in our showreels. This decision didn't effect how we worked together it was purely a practical decision for our futures in industry.

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