Lighting Plan - corporate promo

When we filmed the royal hotel we were very limited to what lighting was available. The only lighting that was available was mostly spotlights dotted around and natural light during the day.

We recorded the shots of the bar and hotel during the day which was useful as there was very low light in the bar due to the bar having a few spotlights at the back of the bar and at the back of the seating area with a couple of spotlights dotted around the middle.

We recorded the candlelight event at night so we had to turn the ISO on our DSLR's up to 3200 which meant that we had a tiny bit of grain. However you can't really see it once we colour graded the footage. So now I know that when I go out and film next time I will turn the aperture up as well to compensate for the poor lighting in the bar.

The night club parts were recorded in the basement so we had to turn the ISO up even higher to 6400 which made the footage look even more grainy, our client didn't have any other lights to turn on which made shooting customers dancing incredibly challenging as through our eyes it looked dark and through the camera it looked like we had not taken the lens cap off.

Shotlist

. the first shot will be an establishing shot of the Royal Hotel then panning into the entrance, this will all be handheld.

. the second shot will be stills taken of the inner restaurant area building p to the night club stuff.

. the next shot will be montage shots of the bar so we might put the camera on the bar and get a shot of looking down the bar, and mainly wide shots of the bar area.

. the fourth shot will be a shot of the camera flying up the stairs of the hotel.

. now moving onto the nightclub stuff

. the first shot should be following people walking down the stairs and into the nightclub.

. the next shots will be montage shots and mostly improvised like various shots of the DJ

. The finishing shot will be a final establishing shot of the royal hotel.

Location Report-EXT

Location:       The Royal Hotel (Exterior)

 

 

Address:

1 High Street
Southend
Essex
SS1 1JE

 

Contact Person:

Cherish Roach

Position: 

Bar Manager

Electricity

 

Exterior location

No Electricity Available/required

 

Audio

 

Road Nearby

Public noise

Possibly Construction sounds

 

Lighting

 

Lots of Natural Light (if shooting in the dark lights on sight)

 

No portable Lights required

 

Set

 

Seafront in the Background 

 

Logistics

 

Close to college 10 minute walk

After Effects - Title sequence

in this session today i created a title sequence which could be used for a trailer, this type of sequence is commonly used in TV shows like X Factor, Britans got Talent and many others. i started this composition from scratch. first off i created a text layer and a new camera which the lens was set to 28mm as there isn't much distance between each layer in the comp so there will be less DOF(Depth Of Field), I then key framed the Z axis of the text to -1000 so the text disappeared off of the screen i then set another keyframe 8 keyframes in and set the Z axis of the text to its normal size 0. after duplicating the layer i noticed that there was a little jitter between each layers keyframes, to fix this i right clicked on the furthest keyframe and clicked on the keyframe interpolation button which opened  another tab which displayed three buttons the top button said linear but the middle button said auto which basically means that After Effects is guessing the calculations which is not what i wanted as i typed in the exact numbers i wanted for the key-frames, this fixed the issue and I continued to duplicate the text and re-type something else until I finished on "cinemas" to polish the final edit I added motion blur to give the text realism as it flies onto the screen.

Original Client Brief for Corporate Promo

this is the client Brief for my group. This is the client before the company went under new management.

Adobe After Effects - Camera Projection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YCtb1XYczo&feature=youtu.be

This effect was created in Adobe After Effects using the camera projection technique. I had four different PNG files which where edited into different sizes. When you first import your footage into After Effects, it imports it as a 2D composition, so we had to create a virtual 3D camera in After Effects , in the camera creating options you can choose from various preferences like what lens you want on the camera, i picked the 35mm lens so it could pick up a decent amount of DOF (Depth Of Field). At the bottom of the viewing screen there is a button which should say active camera, when you click into that it opens a little tab which has options like top, bottom, left, right. i clicked on the top button which allowed me to see the composition from a birds eye view, once in this mode we could move each PNG image further back to create perspective. once all of the images were in the correct place i moved the focus point of the virtual camera to the furthest point which was the sky by clicking and dragging the middle crosshair to the back line which is the sky.

after this i key-framed the Y axis of the comp to make it look like the viewer is peeking over the wall, i also key-framed the aperture of the virtual camera so that at the start the sky is really out of focus and as the camera rises slowly the aperture returns to perfect focus.

My Groups Corporate Promo Production Schedule

Promo schedule

 

1.     Brief  – 17/01/14

 

2.     Pre- production – 24/01/14

 

-         Script

-         Shot list

-         Storyboards

-         Location report

-         Sound track

-         Lighting plan

 

3.     Shooting – 31/01/14

 

4.     Post production – 07/02/14

 

-         Editing

-         Sound

 

5.     Re-shoot (if needed) 09/02/14

 

 

6.     Show client rough copy, for Info on any changes needed – 09/02/14

 

7.     Hand in  copy on DVD and upload video to Facebook – week commencing 10/02/14