Post-production 2

I have about 10 more usable shots (out of over 60) that I'm planning on applying the same effects. At one scene I'm hoping to achieve a security camera look with 4 split screens.

Post-production 1

I have finished all the shooting and currently in the middle of the post-production. Below are some adjustments that I made;

1. Alternate plot

The protagonist inside the TV controls the Television using a remote control.

2. Effects

Photoshop for color correction and effects (halftone-line)

3. Quality

AVCHD

4. Stabilizer

Partial use of imovie image track function.

Z-trolley 002

When comparing to my previous trolley, it is much handy and easier to maneuver, yet less stable for Z-shootings.

AVCHD test

After reading all sorts of nightmarish posts on transcoding AVCHD footages online for days, I had been reluctant to try it out, however, I just found out that Premiere pro CS5 provides native support to AVCHD. To my surprise, I played around with the setting for a bit and manage to make it work in a few minutes. There is no way I will go back to motion JPEG, to say the least.

Crippled Z-trolley

I have color-corrected my new footage in photoshop.

On the way to this shooting, I lost one of the 4 wheels of my precious Z-trolley, then during this precise shot, another fell apart. ( a big jump during this footage was caused by the impact.) To make things worse, I lost another one on my way home.

Pulfrich effect

I attempted to add slightest anaglyphic effect to my previous Z-depth footages.

I'm currently trying to achieve the movie in movie image using After Effects.

Z-trolley test shoot 3

I shot the entire test footage on Motion JPEG at its maximum quality and now I know that it was the very reason why those footages are not crisp clear... I'll try to reshoot it on AVCHD this week.

Z-trolley test shoot 2

Model and production assistant: Damla Soyer

It's probably so 10 years ago of me to state this but I'm amazed by how DSLRs make film making and editing so much simpler compared to the formats that I had used before, however, as this is the very first time I'm shooting on non-film/DV (and it's been almost 6 years since I shot my last film... oh wow.) I'm a bit lost in tiny transition in terms of technical settings in general.

Z-trolley test shoot 1

The video quality is extremely low. I know that it's very grainy because of insufficient light, however, I'm sure my camera setting and iMovie stabilizing option are making things worse.

New Z-trolley

I took my trolly, which is hypothetically used as a multi-use storage, out for a test shoot this weekend. Although I was refused by quite a few taxies due to its size and ended up taking subways, it proved that it was stable enough and ready to Z.

Shooting in the middle of 광장시장 on Saturday evening was an absorbing experience on the whole. To say the least, people (under the influence) at the market can be extremely cooperative in after-hours.

Storyboard 2

The technical solutions that I have been testing:

To make it look as if the camera is going through (or sucked into) the next scene.

---> Testing on After Effects.

To achieve less shaky Z-depth camera movements.

---> Attaching the camera to hanger with dolly.

To create an surrealistic ending

---> Developing a cinemagraph image.

Storyboard 1

The movie will be constructed with 4-5 scenes. Each scene contains a part of next scene which will be located in the middle of the panel the actor is holding. As Z-depth movement comes closer to the panel, the next scene in the panel also starts to make its Z-depth movement.

Location ideas

See more location idea images

Locations and camera test

This is my hand held test shoot at some locations in my mind.This time I tired the stabilization function in iMovie and found its quality extremely poor.

Cinemagraph

I have been seeing a lot of articles on "Cinemagraph" these past weeks and I decided to give it a shot. It's basically a sophisticated version of traditional GIF animation and the catch is "more than a photo, but not quite a video." More precisely, a Cinemagraph is supposed to look like one of those moving pictures from Minority Report. So far, my first attempts failed. (aside from the above screenshot, I also tried the images of a flying kite, bicycle, rantan, man with his i-phone.) I believe I chose slightly complicated compositions to manipulate for this particular technique. If this works out, I would like to use it as a part of my scene. My only concern is though the process would definitely be much more time consuming than the actual shooting.

oh-so-coco, Kevin burg, How-to

Z-depth contents ideas 5

Z-depth contents ideas 4

Although it's not an impressive photoshop job, I created the above image as a part of my visualization process.

Z-depth contents ideas 3

Z-depth contents ideas 2

Part 1: Moving image -- a person standing on a busy street with a blank board ( the board has to be cut in a certain shapes so it would be separated from the background image)

Part 2: Moving image -- moving image inside of the board

Part 3: Animation -- merge #2 and simple CG animation of moving objects

Z-depth contents ideas 1

This is my first brainstorming sketches. As you might be able to skim my vague ideas here, my video would be consists of 3 elements. Simply put;

Part 1. The base moving image

Part 2. The moving image inside of the image

Part 3. The animation inside of #2

Z-depth camera test 2

What a depressing result. It was very shaky that the stabilizer function didn't seem as though it was responding well. (This is the row footage.) Using a beat up two-wheeled suit case was such a bad idea. The image quality turned out to be better than I thought. I must have an ok camera for video shooting?

Z-depth camera test 1

I just wanted to experience how Z-depth would look like through my camera and well... this obviously didn't work well at all. The camera fell, I cried a bit and I almost got hit by a car. Since I couldn't do what I really wanted to do in my previous projects, I'm hoping to make something out of this Z-depth project , however my brain is completely fried after a 3 straight days of Maya tutorial marathon. I'm getting a small shopping cart this week or build a small set.

Project 3