Chosen Ideas for Rotoscoping

After looking at my ideas and thinking about the ones that will look suitable and thinking about my skills of after effects I have decided on these three ideas…

Eclipse

With this ides I can apply effects to the masks to replicate an eclipse. The reason I have chosen this idea because it is a stylistic way of using the basic colours of black and white.

Wooden Drawing Model

With this idea I can draw separate sections of the drawing model. I have chosen this idea because it will show the basic way that the body moves

Ipod Advert Style

I have chosen this idea because when creating this sequence I can used shapes and textures to create depth perception in the background.

Filming & Editing

Yesterday filming went quite well and we continue today to start editing. As far as filming went yesterday we took about five / six takes of the sequence and as a safety idea we kept the left, right & center. Then about three takes in we moved the left and right to a closer position and a slight different angle. With the cameras that me and Rhys used the movement of the dancers did get chopped off every now and again.

Rotoscop Film Examples

There are a number of films that have used rotoscoping as there style of film and I am going to give you some examples

A Scanner Darkly

Waking Life

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

After looking at the meaning of rotoscoping and knowing of a scanner darkly and comparing it to the meaning of rotoscaping. Also the waking likfe was made by the same person who made A Scanner Darkly, but knowing of the film who framed roger rabit it didnt make me think of it as a rotosciping film because i thought of rotoscoping as a compleate trace of the footage and not just characters placed over live footage but then I remembered the character played by Christopher Lloyd called Judge Doom where near the end there is animation directly over the footage of Judge Doom.

Rotoscoping Meaning & Origin

To understand rotoscoping full i have found a full explanation of what it is...


Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

Class Ideas

Since we got our new brief as a class we have been coming up with ideas that will develope as the project goes on. These ideas are ...

• togeather we have five zi8 to use at the filming so there will be a variety of angles when it comes to editing.
• we could split up into groups when it comes to editing and see who is the best
• as a class we can bring in extra equiptment, for example i have a tripod and a gorilapod (a tripod you can attach to things such as poles)

New Project : Rotoscoping Dance

the new brief is that as a class we film a dance sequence at the college then edit it into a sequence to rotoscope over. Then this sequence will be chopped into separate sections that as a class we will animate then stitch back together. The reason for this brief is so the the completed animation can be projected behind the dance performance at the college.

Conclusion

Looking back on my project I feel that I have had a number of situation where I have learned from, as well as situations that did not go well.

First I learned from previous filming with a zi8 to use spotlights when I was filming because when I filmed crash bang wallop and I was in a room with little light intake it made the footage very grainy. Therefore I used some spotlights that I brought when I tried stop motion to create more light in the room

Another part of the project that I felt went well was the filming and creating my dig for victory footage. The reason that I say this is because I used farm grown vegetables from Seaford farm shop to look as if I had grown my own. When it comes round to showing for crit I was complimented on how authentic my grown garden looked.

The other part of the project that I felt went well was the finding of suitable music for my sequences. This was after finding an artist that had the sound that I needed for my style of sequences.

The part of my project that has the most strength is the amount of research I done into finding fonts that looked like the original posters. Also I feel that my ending images have a high resemblance of the posters that I was basing them on.

I am also very pleased with my DVD menus and transitions. The reason that I am happy with these is because I have created a realistic looking globe that spins. Also I have learned some more skills in DVD studio Pro.

The part of the project that I felt didn’t go so well was the ending to my car sharing sequence. The reason tat I say this is because I felt that when I filmed the end shot for car sharing I couldn’t get the right perspective to resemble the original poster. So when it come round to creating the end poster it seemed to loose the idea behind it and I created something nothing like the idea. So I changed it after crit to correct my mistake.

Overall I feel that the project went very well and that I have learned from my mistakes from previous project. Also by creating my DVD menu I have learned some new techniques in after effects as well as developing my skills in DVD studio pro.

DVD Cover

Here i have designed a dvd cover that goes along the same theme as my menus so that there is no confusion when it comes to looking ad the menus and the case

Menu Feed Back

After showing classmates and teaching staff my mockups the favorite seems to be idea 1 with the fly in glob. The main feed back it that it is a realistic globe and that the functions need to be faster because you get bored watching the slow functions.

DVD Menu Idea 2

My second idea still used the 3D globe only i will have fly in Polaroid images to portray what the film or subject is about

Animatic



Mock-up

DVD Menu Idea 1

My first idea for the DVD menu is using a fly-in globe with fade on text. I plan to create the globe in aftereffects and make it realistic as possible, this is after i have found a tutorial on creative cow

Animatic




Mock-up

Just My Luck

With time coming round to share our films my one has a sound level problem. Therefor i have found out that i had accident with keyframes on the sound and i had raised it dramatically, so all i have done is changed the level and re- exported it.

Sequences After Crit

Here are my sequences now i have made my edits. I have made minor tweaks like re-phrasing and big tweaks like main images.

Visual Changes

After reviewing my comments from the class i decided to make some changes. The comments that i decides to take into consideration and change were ...


After finishing my sequences I presented my movies to the class and Nick and here are the comments that I got back…

• Your country needs you poster could be copyright
• Could use a classmate as the image for your country needs you

there for i changed the end image form this ...

to this image of a classmate in the same style

the next comment that i took into consideration and changes was this

• Change the style of imagery at the end of your transport one because it dosent look war like
• Try car sharing today helps the climate

there for i changed the end image form this ...

To this image in the style of a war time car poster

Class Comments

After presenting my movies to the class and Nick and here are the comments that I got back…

• Good quality footage from a zi8
• They have charm to them
• The general one is good
• Your country needs you poster could be copyright
• Could use a classmate as the image for your country needs you
• Change paragraph at the bottom of your general
• Might be easier to use the titles from you films because they are shore and to the point
• Change the style of imagery at the end of your transport one because it dosent look war like
• Spin the message to a positive
• Try car sharing today helps the climate
• Sort out the white on the handle on the spade so the background comes through with dig for victory

Nicks comments

• People might find it hard to understand the topic of your film (general)
• Change phrase to “ Dig for victory, helps fight climate change”

I am now going to review both my comments and sequences and decide on what to change

Finished Sequences

Here are my finished sequences before i present them to the class for crit. There are little things that i think the class will pic up on for me ti think about and change.