Brief 2

Student: B00550221

Lecture : Mark Cullen

Module: Digital Compositing

Course code: CES514

Pre- Productions

Storyline

Fantasy fiction The character goes to the library to find a book. Whilst looking she comes across an old large book, quiet dusty. Taking the book of the shelf dusts off the dust and opens the book. One the page she opens a gothic dark castle forms, either folds out of emerges from melted substance. The castle is not that tall on the page but bigger that the book. Mountains build up and make the scene for the castle. Water runs off the mountains on to bottom of the mountain that the castle is on and off the book edge. The door of the castle slides down and three trolls stumble out one with a troll weapon, wooden handle and spikes on the club. One that is quiet funny looking that scratches his head and the final one looks about and looks up at character.

Clouds form and the moon emerge. Moonlight scene and lighting. The character lifts book up to eye leave and turns book around to get good look at castle and trolls, the trolls shake to the movement. Character pokes troll with weapon which then uses its weapon and pricks characters finger.

I like to have interaction with the pop up story book like the finger pricking but if I had time I would like to have the clouds move when the character waves over them, or they disappear. Also having the water running off the page is another interaction but if character was to drop something in water to make a ripple effect. (when it comes to moving the book around in this scene the water might but only falling off side when is moved rather than spilling off edge of the book)

Sounds Troll growling, night sounds of forest, water.

Storyboard

Looking at book and dusting the dust off it

Duration: 5 sec

Opening book and waiting there for few minutes

Duration: 3 sec

Close up of trees forming and water around bottom or mountains

Duration: 6 sec

Mountains build up behind the castle to create scene

Duration: 10 sec

Book opened on page castle starts to form gothic castle on top of rocky area

Duration: 10-15 sec

Close up of water running of edge of book from sea

Duration: 5 sec

Character in library looking at books in a certain section

Duration: 5 sec

The character drops a wee stone into the sea and it ripples

Duration: 5 sec

Looking at castle the door opens and three trolls walk /stumble out

Duration: 10 sec

Lifting the book up to eye level and turning it around to take a better look at the scene trolls wobble

Duration: 10 sec

The character then pokes one of the trolls. The one with the weapon

Duration: 3 sec

Wide shot of story book

The troll uses its weapon and attacks the finger leaving it to bleed

Duration: 5 sec

Close up of trolls. One has a weapon looking around; other scratches his head and final one looking around and up

Duration: 15-20 sec

Filming footage shot list Location: Library Date: 18/12/2012

# Shot Type

Shot Angle

Filming Action Notes

1 WIDE Eye line Character looking at book selves

2 POV POV Character scrolling finger along shelf to find a

book. Stops at large book.

3 POV High angle Pulls book out of shelf and dusts off the dust

lying on top of book

4 MED Eye line We see character opening book

5 POV High angle Looking at book for few minutes

6 POV High angle-

Eye line Turning book around as if to look at something on the page

7 POV High angle Having closer look on the page

8 POV High angle Looking at edge of book

9 WIDE Low angle Grey clouds moving

10 MED POV Character looking at opened book

10 POV High angle Finger getting pricked

11 MED High angle Water running off side of green table

12 POV High angle Picking up an imaginative stone and dropping it

into were the sea would be

13 POV High angle Finger circling around top of castle

# Shot Type Still/ Shot Action Notes

1 POV Looking down at book

2 POV Edge of book

3 WIDEMED Character looking at opened book

4 WIDE Opened book on page

5 WIDE Grey clouds

6 WIDE Bright moon

Effect footage shot list Date: 18/12/2012 Software used: 3D MAX, Photoshop & After Effects Effects: 3D MAX 3D Camera tracking

3D Compositing with video Green Screening

# Shot type

Shot Angle Description

Effect

Notes

WIDE High angle Book on opened page

1 WIDE High angle Rocky stone area is built up onto

page 3D MAX

2 WIDE High angle Gothic castle forms from the rocky

mountains 3D MAX

3 WIDE High angle Mountains then form up behind

castle 3D MAX

4 WIDE High angle Trees forms around edge of book 3D MAX

5 WIDE High angle Other rocky areas from to make the

scene and water starts to fill up the sea

3D MAX, Green screen

6 CU High angle Water from the sea flows off the

edge of book 3D MAX, Green screen

7 WIDE High angle Dropping a stone into the water and

it ripples 3DMAX, Green screen, After effects

8 WIDE High angle Finger moves around the clouds and

glowing light follows it Green screen, After effects

9 CU POV Door of gothic castle opens 3D MAX

10 MED High angle Trolls walk out of castle onto scene 3D MAX

11 MED High angle Trolls moving very slightly 3D MAX

12 MED High angle -

Eye line Lifting book up to see castle, moving book around to get better look

3D MAX

13 CU High angle Pocking troll with finger Green screen

14 CU High angle Troll with weapon swing at finger 3D MAX, Green screen

15 MED High angle Looking at the book 3D MAX

16 WIDE High angle Further look of the book, zoomed

out 3D MAX

Shooting schedule

Location: Library, House Date: 18/12/2012

SCENE 1 - INT. LIBRARY - DAY

Shot Shot Type Shot Description Length Equipment

1 WIDE Character looking at selves 10 secs Camera, Tripod,

2 POV Character scrolling through the books, stops at large book 10 secs Camera, Tripod

3 POV Pulling book out of shelf, dusts of dust lying on top 10 secs Camera, Tripod

4 MED Character opening book 10 secs Camera, Tripod

5 POV Character looking at page in book 15 secs Camera, Tripod

SCENE 2 – INT. Book - Day

Shot Shot Type Shot Description Length Equipment

1 WIDE A Rocky scene forms onto the page, high angle shot 20 secs Laptop, Book

2 WIDE Slowly a castle forms from the rocks on the top of the rocky area. High angle

30 secs Laptop, Book

3 WIDE Mountains area springs up to create a more night atmosphere. High angle

15 sec Laptop, Book

4 WIDE Trees forms from the ground and water fills up the book 15 secs Laptop, Book

5 MED Water reaching edge of the book 10 secs Laptop, Book

6 WIDE Clouds and moon are shining down onto scene water reflecting the moon light

10 sec Laptop, Book

SCENE 3 – INT- BOOK – DAY

Shot Shot Type Shot Description Length Equipment

1 POV Looking at edge of book to see water flowing off it. POV angle 10 secs Laptop, Green screen

2 MED Picking up a stone from the ground and dropping it into the water. Ripple effect

6 sec

3 MED With edge of finger circling the top of the castle in and among the clouds, small glowing line follows finger. High angle. Glowing light particle effect

10 secs Laptop, Green screen

4 WIDE Looking down onto the scene, door of the castle opens 10 secs Laptop

SCENE 4 – INT – BOOK –DAY

SCENE 5- INT – BOOK – DAY

Shot Shot Type Shot Description Length Equipment

1 WIDE Trolls walk out of castle onto scene. High angle 14 secs Laptop

2 MED Closer look at the trolls on the rocky area. High angle 5 secs Laptop

3 WIDE Trolls moving very slightly 5 secs Laptop

4 WIDE- POV Lifting the book up and turning it around to get better look at the scene. High angle. Camera tracking used

20 secs Laptop

5 WIDE Ending in same position as before 5 secs Laptop

Shot Shot Type Shot Description Length Equipment

1 MED Moving in on the trolls to have a closer look. High angle 10 sec Laptop

2 CU Finger of character moving toward one of the trolls with the weapon. High angle

5 sec Laptop

3 MED Character poking the troll. Trolls stomach moves in. High angle 3 sec Laptop

4 MED The troll swings his weapon and hits the character finger. Character pulls finger away then. High angle. Sparks maybe used

10 sec Laptop

5 MED - WIDE Image of scene and then zooms out to wide scene and a force field then appears around book

10 sec Laptop

Effects Breakdowns

3D Max Gothic Castle

This is the main scene. I have to create a gothic castle with spires and towers and make it look realistic as possible. I will start with getting research images of similar interest castle and create my designs and then create it in max. I will try and keep it low polygon so that it doesn’t take a long time to animate. The textures on the castle will me the most important and what will make it more realistic so the modelling will be simple.

Images of sketches and starting 3d max modelling:

The colours I will use will be dark and blue colours like the use of midnight colour. Textures of castle in Photoshop and then on model:

Final lighting and shadow on castle:

I want to have the castle on a rocky area so I have created a stony base for the castle to sit on.

Animating the castle Using the melt modifier to build the castle from the rocky mountain:

Mountains, Water and Trees backgrounds

The scene will have mountains and trees and water at the bottom of the mountains. For the mountains using triangles and small vertex bumps, main area will be in the texturing of the mountains.

Images of model and the texture unwrap. Also the final mountains:

Moon sphere model, textured and with a light shining down from it:

The water/sea will be at the base of the mountains and will hopefully use a plane and in aftereffects have the water moving slightly. However for starting point will use a image but will make it reflective so the shadow of the castle and moon light will hopefully reflect off it.

Images:

Trees, some simple models from 3d max pre made:

Animating the mountains and trees forming

Hope to have these appear some way such as resizing up. Using melt and stretch.

Completed scene

Scene completed with lights, shadows and background fixed for 3d camera tracking:

Trolls

Researching trolls that I like and that are simple. Three trolls similar but still different one with a weapon. The troll will be very simple 3d max characters as I don’t have a lot of time or rendering time. They will also be low polygon and the same character but different faces and colour of skin. Images of my sketches and modelling images of created characters:

Texturing the characters in Photoshop and unwrap and applying to characters. The textures will be what define the character specifically. Adding bump maps to make skin more realistic

and other textures:

Troll walking

Simple skinning and Cat system and adding walk cycle:

Troll One:

Images of character and weapon

Troll two:

Main positions

Troll three:

Troll one movement scene

This scene is where the troll with the weapon stabs/ pricks the character with his weapon. I want it to be simple movement and defiantly not too much if possible won’t move the arm too high as then will come into some defiantly problems with the skinning.

Images of the movement of the character for this scene:

Completed scene with all three trolls in their positions as if on the book

3d Camera Tracking Rotation of book

Using 3d max and matchmaker to have scene link to the book when rotating it. Also the camera will rotate around the castle to see the back of the castle and mountains. Images of using matchmaker for tracking, using post it note as tracking point:

In 3d max having scene move with the background footage:

3D compositing with video Finger pricking

The character presses her finger up on the troll, poking it and the troll interacts but pricking her finger with its weapon. For this scene it would consist of the footage of the troll pricking the air and the character poking the character. It also entails the footage of the finger bleeding in the spot where the weapon would hit it. So it would be a trick of over lay once the finger is hit by the troll the footage of the bleeding finger will take its place. This may be tricky but I think it is the way I think it could work.

I would have to have the two finger positions in the exact same place so that there is no difference in the swap over.

Images of three footages and how they would overlay to make the scene work:

Green Screening Bleeding finger

In this effect it means using the footage that was taking for the finger going to poke the character and doing it the exact same way but after a few seconds have the finger bleeding. This would allow me to overlay the footage to look like after the finger is hit it starts to bleed due to the weapon. I would use my green screen so I can overlay it into the scene and then use colour correction to make it realistic to the lighting and shadows in the film.

Image of using green screen and poking character with finger and bleeding finger:

Images of colour correction so that the scenes tie in with each other:

String of Glowing Light

Green screen of character putting finger into scene and rotating finger in clockwise circular motion were there would be the top of the castle:

Water ripple

Green screening of character picking up small rock and dropping it into area were there would be the water/ sea area:

Water over edge of book

Take footage of water flowing over a bucket or an object with flat corner to it so I can then cut this out and add to scene were the water flows over the edge of the book. I think I will use a green book, of make all surrounding are green, so that I can take out all the background and set it into the screen. Colour correction needs to be done for this and good green screening, as it may be hard to not have the water disappear.

Images:

After Effects Ripple

Using the ripple effect to have a small ripple in the water when stone hits it:

Also if there were some clouds, fog for the scene to add to the atmosphere:

String Glowing light effect

Using Tricod Particle 2.1 will create a glowing, animated line to fallow the circular motion finger footage that I did using green screen:

Project Planning

Review the project

• The objective for this project is to create a short film using the techniques learned in the last semester.

• The scope for the project is that it has to be as close to professional quality as possible but it also has to be short. It has to include the techniques we have learned in the previous semester and use them to create a short film. For the project to be a success there has to be a film report, including:

• Storyboard • Key effects breakdowns • Project Plan • Shot list, script

• The constraints of the project are that it has to be between 3-10 minutes long but has to be professional. There should be title sequences and music and the effects breakdowns should be a page per effect.

• The deliverables for the project are: • The final film should be HDTV ready (1920x1080) or for standard HD

(1280x720). Presented on CD- Rom/DVD Rom or memory stick • Use the H.264 code with 80% quality • Upload a copy online to Vimeo or You Tube account

• To make the project a success I will have to create a short professional film 3-1o minutes long, with the use of the techniques I learnt last semester. I also will have to create storyboards and key effects breakdowns of how I did each effect and made it work and show my process in creating it. These would be min of one page per effect.

• For my filming I will have to colour correct the whole film so that it looks continuously the same throughout the film. This is especially important when moving from scene to scene and compositing two separate images or film.

• Any still images I will take will be bmp, targa or tiff as they are a better format then jpeg or gif.

• A project plan will also have to be written up for my film report which includes the storyboards and effects breakdown and shot lists and scripts.

• Sketch books including sketches of characters/ models in the film. I may have to scan each sketch into the computer and add into film report just in case there are no sketch books to be handed in.

• For presenting the project it has to be the size of full HD or standard HD and use the H.264 and to upload the final film on to my Vimeo account.

Creating WBS and Asset list

WBS= work breakdown structure Dividing the overall project objectives into manageable chunks by day or week.

Filming footage:

Scene: Shot: Action: Duration: Day: Notes: 1 1 Character in book isle 5 sec 1 1 2 Finding book and taking of shelf 3 sec 1 1 3 Dusting off dust on book 2 sec 1 1 4 Opening book and holding for few

seconds 3 sec 1

1 5 Leaving book open on page for castle to form on and mountains

1 minute 1

2 1 Close up on were the trees might grow

10 sec 1

2 2 Close up of edge of book were water would be running down over

10 sec 1

3 1 Character dropping a stone into area were water would be

5 sec 1

4 1 Looking at area were door of castle would be, to let it open

5 sec 1

4 2 Character looking onto book as if three trolls walked out of castle and onto book

10 sec 1

4 3 Close up of were the trolls would be standing to get the background

5 sec 1

5 1 Lifting book up to eye level and turning it around slowly to see all of the book

10-15 sec 1

5 2 Finger poking character 5 sec 1 6 1 Wide shot of the final scene 10 sec 1

3D MAX footage

Scene: Shot: Action: Duration: Day: Notes: 2 1 Rocky mountain forms from folding

out from page of a modifier 1.5-2 hours 2 Texture

2 2 Gothic castle created, textured and animated from melt modifier

5-6 hours 2

3 1 Mountains modelled, textured animated to appear on scene, resize animation

3 hours 2

3 2 Trees form 30 minutes 2 3 3 Water form, reflection on water 30 minutes 2 3 4 Moon, modelled, textured, 30 minutes 3 4 1 Door on castle animated down 10 minutes 3 4 2 Trolls, modelled, textures 5-6 hours 3 4 3 Trolls walking out of castle 4 hours 3 4 4 Close up of trolls, one scratching

himself 2 hours 3

5 1 Turing castle around to suit background, created using matchmaker

3 hours 4

5 2 Troll using weapon to hit finger 3 hours 4 6 1 Wide shot of final scene 10 minutes 4

Green screening

Scene: Shot: Action: Duration: Day: Notes: 5 1 Character going to poke character

and getting blood on it after a while

10 -15 sec 5

3 1 Water running down side if a green table

20-30 sec 5

3 2 Finger slowly circling around were there would be imaginative castle top

10-15 sec 5

Asset List

• Video footage • Photography footage • 3d max castle footage • Scenery • Trolls • Trolls walking • Green screen

Define what needs done

Through looking through the WBS and asset list I can now tell what needs to be done. I can divide these up onto certain people and what they should do but as it is my project I can’t get anyone to do the work because I know specifically what to do a most of it is on 3d max.

Task list

• Create the castle and mountain in 3d • Create the trolls • Get trolls to walk slightly • Have the textures done • Have troll one with weapon hit hand • Take footage for green screen • Take all other footage needed to finish this

Sequentialise With Dependencies

There are no time restrictions at this time. But if was to include the library in Armagh as the opening scene then the times for when it is open is 10am – 4pm, Monday to Friday and they are closed for lunch from 1pm to 2pm.

There are not really any dependencies unless was to contain the walking of the trolls outside to see how far they go until we can film the footage as to where to poke the character. I also have to create the castle before I can create any of the other objects in the scene. But there are a lot of things that can happen before another such as creating all the 3d max work first and then can do the footage. In the story there are two activities that can be filmed at same time such as the footage for scene one and the footage with all the bits that include looking at the book, I may be able to do the green screening at the same time as I can then have all the actual filming footage done.

Define Resource List

What will I need to make the footage tasks happen? What are my restrictions? Who do I need to make this task happen? Where do I need to get to and how?

To make footage tasks happen I need my camera, tripod, actor, storyboards, shot list, charged battery, spare memory cards, library an old big book.

The restrictions for this task are finding a library that looks good. Finding a large book to fit into my story. There may only be a certain amount of time I can film, or even none.

I only need myself and one other person to achieve this task. I have to get to the Armagh library and I will drive as I have to take my equipment.

For the 3d mask task what I will need to make these happen is my laptop, 3d max software, sketches and research images. The restrictions would be the amount of detail I can model my characters into as I do not have a lot of time, and the speed of my laptop. I only need myself to complete this task. For camera tracking however I would need a post it note to help with matchmaker and camera.

Green screening to create these tasks I will need a green screen, green screen stand, good light, possibly natural light, character wearing no green, camera, tripod. The restriction would be very limited, hardly any in this task as the green screening is quite simple. I need myself and someone to use the camera.

Estimate Time per Task

I do not have to learn anything new to make these tasks happen. To finalise a task such as the footage each sub task will possibly take bot 30 seconds each to film. However for 3d task the sub tasks take much longer than any other tasks in my story such as the creating, texturing and animating the castle, and trolls would take about 6 hours each and I’m not sure yet how long it will take to animate it. The camera tracking is ok to it has to just have two footages and to know exactly where the object is going. Finally the green screening and the sub tasks are simple and the time spent on each would be about 10 minutes as have to set up the screen and make sure everything is right.