Tuesday, 17 December 2013
New Animatic with Real Images
Friday, 13 December 2013
Working between Premiere Pro and After Effects
Different ways of transferring your project from Premiere Pro to After Effects.
1.Export the Premiere project as an Quicktime file format with the Video Codec as 'Animation' (Massive File Size) or as 'PNG' (Good Size File)
2.Select the required files from your composition, Right click and select 'Replace With After Effects Composition' and select where you want to save the After Effects project file. (This Method locks all the clips together into one track so you can't edit them again in Premiere Pro)
3.Hold 'Alt' and drag the required clips up one track to duplicate them, then right click the duplicates and select 'Replace With After Effects Composition' (This will allow you to still have access to the original clips in your Premiere Composition)
- Doing methods 2/3 will remove any effects that you have added to the clips in Premiere!
4.In Premiere Pro, go to the 'Project Browser' and drag the Composition file to After Effects (This will create a copy of your composition as if you were exporting it and importing it to After Effects and will create your project on one single track)
- This is the most effective and best method to use.
1.Export the Premiere project as an Quicktime file format with the Video Codec as 'Animation' (Massive File Size) or as 'PNG' (Good Size File)
2.Select the required files from your composition, Right click and select 'Replace With After Effects Composition' and select where you want to save the After Effects project file. (This Method locks all the clips together into one track so you can't edit them again in Premiere Pro)
3.Hold 'Alt' and drag the required clips up one track to duplicate them, then right click the duplicates and select 'Replace With After Effects Composition' (This will allow you to still have access to the original clips in your Premiere Composition)
- Doing methods 2/3 will remove any effects that you have added to the clips in Premiere!
4.In Premiere Pro, go to the 'Project Browser' and drag the Composition file to After Effects (This will create a copy of your composition as if you were exporting it and importing it to After Effects and will create your project on one single track)
- This is the most effective and best method to use.
Research and Understanding Mattes and Matte painting
Matte Paintings Research
Matte paintings ate painted landscapes, Set or non-existent environments. These paintings allow the filmmakers to create a false sense of location in which would be hard to build, visit or film in due to tight budget funds normally found when creating a film. even today with Blockbuster film budgets over $250 million
In the past, matte painters and film technicians have used a range of different techniques to combine the painted image with the live footage. The effect created by this is therefore a seamless and flowing clip.
Matte paintings were originally and traditionally made using paints and pastels on large sheets of glass. As far as known, the first known matte paintings were shown and used in 1907.
Traditional matte paintings were used in the wizard of Oz (The emerald city), Citizen Kane (Kane's Xanadu) and Star wars episode IV: a new hope (Tractor beam set.)
In the 1980s however, technology started to take off with the growing speed of computer graphic programmes and as a result, matte paintings were therefore normally made digitally. As far as we know, Die Hard 2: Die Harder was the first film to use digitally composite footage.
Matte paintings are used these days to cut down on the filming cost or the location being to expensive of impossible to photograph live.
Matte paintings ate painted landscapes, Set or non-existent environments. These paintings allow the filmmakers to create a false sense of location in which would be hard to build, visit or film in due to tight budget funds normally found when creating a film. even today with Blockbuster film budgets over $250 million
In the past, matte painters and film technicians have used a range of different techniques to combine the painted image with the live footage. The effect created by this is therefore a seamless and flowing clip.
Matte paintings were originally and traditionally made using paints and pastels on large sheets of glass. As far as known, the first known matte paintings were shown and used in 1907.
Traditional matte paintings were used in the wizard of Oz (The emerald city), Citizen Kane (Kane's Xanadu) and Star wars episode IV: a new hope (Tractor beam set.)
In the 1980s however, technology started to take off with the growing speed of computer graphic programmes and as a result, matte paintings were therefore normally made digitally. As far as we know, Die Hard 2: Die Harder was the first film to use digitally composite footage.
Matte paintings are used these days to cut down on the filming cost or the location being to expensive of impossible to photograph live.
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Green Screen Research
A green screen is a special effect technic that is used in films and TV programs.You use them to add effects such as computerized graphics. Green screens were first used in the film 'Four heads are better than one'. Which is by one of the first ever film makers Georges Méliès. The green screen composing techniques have developed over the years by inventors such as Frank Williams,C. Dodge Dunning,Lawrence Butler and Petro Vlahos. Frank Williams' was the first film maker to create the moving matte. Before that they only could use green screens if the camera was still so you couldn't use it for action shots. Green screens have become increasingly popular since the invention of digital film making. They have also developed a lot which makes it more easier to use and you can be more creative with your ideas. Some films use green screens all the way through. For example Mary Poppins, the recent remake of Alice In Wonderland, The Hobbit, 300 and The Avengers. Lots of TV programs use them too for example Ugly Betty, CSI's, Monk and Grey's Anatomy. They use green screens for either special effects such us fires,explosions and crashes. Another reason they might use them is for views and street shots. They use them for these because it would be hard to film in a street without getting in the way of people or vehicles. Mary Poppins used a lot of green screen work. One of the most popular scenes of the film where green screens are used is Mary Poppins flying on a umbrella. At the time of release, it would have been mind-blowing for the people that watched it; but if you compared it to films these days, it's completely different.
