A New Game progress

Editing the rough cuts:

This week we focused on collating the footage we took and timing it to the dialogue. Marilyn and I also created the title cards and end credits, respectively. Now we have to add music and the clean up the animation so that the viewer can see the UI switches etc.
I timed out the living room scenes to match the pace of the dialogue by extending frames so that a particular frame is held for longer if needed. I also cleaned up the videogame UI sections to make the character on screen react to the costume changes in time to the dialogue. I also cropped the UI changes and spliced them into the footage to make it look like Zack and Lulu were flicking around the blog to select the clothing options.


We've added music and finished the film!

Stop-motion review: SAKA-MEN

Directed by Shigeru Okada, Saka-Men is a Japanese horror stop-motion short detailing the s a violent bandit and his family and the misfortune they incur after the bandit breaks a shimenawa rope (sacred straw rope designed to serve as a border between the real world and the other world in Shinto religion). The characters seem to be made of fairly stiff plastic "dolls" with claymation to help with their expressions and the monsters in the short film. I found the short to be quite creepy and effective, especially with the monster that shows up and possesses the bandit, warping his body using claymation.

The video can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=0Xb6SBrjP1c

A New Game progress (editing film footage)

A New Game Progress:

 Today we started doing post-production edits to our film footage. We figured out how to convert our raw footage into something we can use (either TARGA sequences or .avi files) in Adobe Premier Pro. We have collated our raw footage into the first rough cut, where the UI sections have to be edited so that they make sense and the audio added.

In Premier Pro we also learned how to crop out sections of frames to help clean up and edit shots.

I used what I learned to edit out Marilyns hand in the rough cut of this scene.


A screenshot of our current progress on Premier Pro

Stop-motion Review: More (2016) by Lawrence Becker

More is a short about a man who digs into the ground chanting "There must be more than this". The story and premise is very simple, more of a visualisation of a joke than a story, but this film is still a light and entertaining watch and the use of silhouettes is creative and serves the story well. And while the dialogue between the characters on the screen is natural and flows well, the majority of the short is the the man falling down the hole he dug, which, like the dialogue, flows well and was entertaining to watch. During the end credits, it shows how the man falling scene was made by placing the environment around him, which I though was entertaining and creative.