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July 12, 2005

Helen love

i just want to say... for those looking forward to Lego Sing for Absolution

i regret to say that i have to put it on hold. :(

a welsh band called Helen Love have gotten hold of me to make a video for there new single.

WOW FACTOR 10+!!! :D

so iv put S4A on hold so i can do this, you can listen to there new single on there website, iv been told there is a possibility this video will get aired on mtv :D

so im sorry again for putting S4A on hold, iv enjoyed making it so far and i look forward to getting back to it as soon as possible

Posted by Matthew at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2005

One Less Thing To Worry About

Well i spent the whole of today working on a scene i had problems with previously

I re-filmed a scene that came out jerky after spending hours of masking it, and at last, after re-filming and re-masking it came out great and i got a few other scenes done

here is a shot from the scene i sorted out today

The video is on a stand still at the moment. Well really it's not, what i mean is that today i had to return the video camera which i should be getting back in a week or so. So in the meantime im just going to work on the footage i already have until the camera is returned.

Posted by Matthew at 09:22 PM | Comments (1)

June 28, 2005

Not Quite...

After spending a few hours today remasking the footage of the camera moving up and around the ship ready for launch. When i was filming it the camera wasn't steady and is quite jerky, but this is only noticable when the background is removed and then placed then a smooth moving background. Due to the way it has been filmed, i am going to refilm it in an attempt to make a smoother movement

Here is a screenshot of the footage. It isn't fully masked but its enough to see what it will look like in the final render

Posted by Matthew at 02:57 PM | Comments (0)

June 27, 2005

Masking...

Since my return from camping, this is what i have been doing...masking the video footage of a view moving around the ship before take off

i have been masking this footage for hours now and the result so far is quite dodgy. so i have to redo it all again but from a different approach. instead of masking the area outside the ship, il just mask the ship instead, I don't know if that makes sense to anyone so i have supplied some screenshots

Posted by Matthew at 09:21 PM | Comments (0)

June 22, 2005

New Found Love

I have a new love and I call it Adobe After Effects

This program is fantastic, some of the effects i have managed to get from this in my film have been amazing. some recent footage i done of the ship flying off into space is just fantastic, I even went back and touched up the previous scenes with new effects i had found.

Here is a screenshot of my work done today.

Posted by Matthew at 04:59 PM | Comments (0)

June 21, 2005

Coming Soon...

note: this is an actual screenshot of the film :D

Posted by Matthew at 08:18 PM | Comments (0)

distractions...

well since downloading Battlefield2 demo, i have been heavily addicted to its online multiplayer game. I havn't been so impressed and addicted to a game in a long time, i will definatly consider buying it.

But because of downloading this game, i have been behind with my Lego S4A video. so I made sure i got alot done today. Today i have accomplised the scene where the ship takes off

i like how that scene has come out. The smoke that is shown was taken from an image of a chimney, by rotating the image 180 degrees and then distorting the image, it gives the impression that smoke is coming from the ship

Posted by Matthew at 07:04 PM | Comments (0)

June 19, 2005

Inside Action

Today I began with the filming inside the cockpit. The filming consisted of positioning the video camera on the tripod and removing some of the walls of the cockpit to get the up close shots i needed.

Since then, I put out the frames taking from the recording into Adobe Premier set it up as a Pre Visualisation. Once the timing was sorted I began with the lip synching. so far so gd

This is the cockpit model. The walls and the roof can be removed to create any shot I want

The cockpit footage in Adobe premier

Posted by Matthew at 04:00 PM | Comments (1)

June 18, 2005

Scene1

well scene one has been filmed. I've been doing some editing in after effects and i'm impressed so far. 2day im goin to work on the editing of this scene before i move on to filming inside the cockpit

The setup for the city with missles firing at the ice caps

The city in Adobe After Effects

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June 17, 2005

It begins...

ok, filming has begun.. i'm not going to upload any movies/drafts, only behind the scenes stuff

so here is the setup so far for the city and launch pad intro scene

as u can see i have used my bed.. but in the footage the bed cannot be seen.. looks pretty good on film so far

Posted by Matthew at 08:00 PM | Comments (1)

so much yet so little

well i have got my dads video camera now... but before i begin filming, i have begun to free up hard disc space by putting my work to dvd...

my videos are few but the filesizes r huge, so im having to go through each video and compressing them to fit on to dvd... looks like il be needed to buy more dvds to get everything on there. The important files are the videos i have made. Everything else i want to save to disc is a huge collection of muse videos and various bootlegs which may spread over 2 dvds.. il worry about it once i start to save them.

As soon as my videos are backed up (not including the muse vids) i shall begin with this lego movie, im going to be constructing the city thats shown at the beginning of the S4A video which leads onto showing the spacecraft ready for take off

Posted by Matthew at 02:43 PM | Comments (0)