Visual Effects Compositing - Week 3



25/07/2019

It starts with the protagonist whistling and walking causally down an alleyway at night. He mutters about the most random stuff.
He climbs in a open window. He has a flashlight in his mouth, humming as he enters
He opens the door and finds it
'The intel was right'. 

 IB: What is it that you most desire, mortal?
*talks about childhood and the things he misses*
IB: I can offer you to relive those moments you just enter

 Inter-dimensional being is a master manipulator. Could be influenced from the nightmare from my childhoods involving being sucked into a TV.

 Post-credits scene Oh god, where am I?
Deep, scary voice: Shut up

 Influences
Take me on music video
Poltergeist
Chalkzone
I should be fine with genre, target audience, and treatment and logline. But I'm uncertain what story theme my concept has. I may have to look at the example proposal to get some clarification

 There are packs and assets in the Y drive for Premiere and After Effects with effects and animations that we are welcome to use 

 Could adjust the levels, curves, and colours of the effects available to us on Y drive. The spell hits could be good for surges surrounding the portal.

 The protagonist just sits on the ground staring at the portal

 We did a crash course on using After Effects and did a cool explosion on a person. I had a lot of fun by changing the colour of the explosion to a chemical type of blue, adding brightness/contrast and Hue/Saturation effects, in order to give a high contrast black and white that I like applying into my work. In addition to the Add Grain, to apply film grain to the black and white. This also serves a bit of practice towards what I have in mind for my Digital Filmmaking project.

 Wide angles will be dominant in this paper's project

 Glow could be a good effect to use when the protagonist enters the portal

 I merely just add the glow effect to this video to indicate that something is coming and increasing the threshold as it gets closer. The threshold amount of the glow effect applied is somewhat subtle.


Genre: Sci-fi comedy
Target audience: 18-30, male and female

ProductionCrate. (2018, November 3). Blink portal tutorial in adobe after effects! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KNEhtLnm7U

 This tutorial used a green screen behind the actors, so there would different coloured lights shinned on them and leaf blowers to look like the actors were encountering wind from the portal. They also rotoscoped the actors. The lights that are with the portal are achieved by playing through the scene with lights and then making them into still frames and masking the lights, which was then be all composited together on After Effects. The portal effect was purchased online.

 This effect was influenced by the portals in the film, X-Men: Days of Future Past.






Just like what I have in mind, this tutorial had the LED lights put in place of the portal and to simulate the light coming from the portal. When it comes to removing the LED lights on After Effects onscreen, you just have to make layer mask and sample the ground or such (as a still images).

Genre: Sci-fi comedy
Target audience: 18-30, male and female

Storyline
  • It starts with the protagonist whistling and walking causally down an alleyway at night. He mutters about the most random stuff.
  • He climbs in an open window. He has a flashlight in his mouth, humming as he enters
  • He opens the door and finds the portal
  • 'The intel was right'. 
  • He's pacing towards and away from the portal, debating whether to enter or not. He becomes a big baby about it.
  • He worried about never returning back and if he's just going insane and if really he's having hallucinations (he did have Weet-Bix this morning that was one day past its best before date).
  • He posts the video online and is not taken seriously. It's believed to be done on a computer.
  • The protagonist just sits on the ground staring at the portal. Play with the flashlight
  • He discovers a voice coming from the portal. Protagonist is weirded out.
  • The voice dares him to enter. He does and he cautiously approaches. The protagonist enters the portal. A loud slurping noise. 'Mm. I forgot how humans from Dimension XA10 taste so good.'
  • The portal is really a straw into an interdimensional being's mouth.
  • The being is really just been playing with his food by talking to the character.
Post credits scene
Oh god, where am I?
Deep, scary voice: Shut up, you’re worse than hobos from Mars

Dialogue 
IB: What is it that you most desire, mortal?
*talks about childhood and the things he misses*
IB: I can offer you to relive those moments you just enter

Characters
Portal
The voice coming from the portal is an interdimensional being. He is a master manipulator. Could be influenced from the nightmare from my childhood involving being sucked into a TV. I imagine this character having a booming voice. He likes to play with different species in other dimensions before consuming them, which can also be described as ‘playing with his food’. As far as he is concerned, the portal is pretty much the interdimensional being equivalent to drinking a soft drink with a straw at a McDonalds or KFC.

Alex 
He is an internet blogger who comes across information about a portal being inside a building. Alex is curious to see what is there and decided to break into the building. He is not completely convinced that the portal is legit until he sees it for himself. He has a weird and sentimental. What he desires to do is to return to his childhood since life was simpler then, he missed doing stuff as a kid, he can’t do anymore and being a grown up has been depressing.

Sound
The portal would do a whirring sound that sounds like it’s going in circles
Slurping sound
Straw
Post-credits scene dialogue would have echo

Lighting
An LED on a C-stand towards the protagonist would be put in place and where will be the portal would be superimposed, and at the same time, be the bright light coming from the portal.

Props
Flashlight
Phone

Effects
Superimposing portal
Glow effect

Research
Portal tutorials

Influences
Take me on music video
Poltergeist
Chalkzone

Other notes
I should be fine with genre, target audience, and treatment and logline. But I'm uncertain what story theme my concept has. I may have to look at the example proposal to get some clarification

Wide angles will be dominant in this paper's project

Glow (AE effect) could be a good effect to use when the protagonist enters the portal


This is a portal I got done on After Effects through a tutorial



26/07/2019

I have decided to film the majority of the film in the SIT Downtown basement and have the portal in a vault. I will also include the scary stairs located there as well. The alleyway and climbing in scene is still to be decided.

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