A Journey Home/ shot with HVX-M2

[pdsage10]

Here is a couple of shots from my freature that I have been working on for the past 6 months. Most of the shots were done air to air from a helicopter. IMPORTANT: NEVER USE A FS100 TO RECORD FOOTAGE FROM A HELICOPTER!! I learned this leason the hardway and had multiple drop outs in my footage. At $3000.00 a hour, this was a very expensive mistake.

Synopsis: A boy is raised by his WWII vet grandfather and they work together on rebuilding a p51 mustang to race in Reno. Through a tragic turn of events, the grandfather is murdered and the grandson seeks revenge.

This sequence is just random shots from the end of the film and is not intended to make sense (the compression washed out the blacks).

http://sage-productions.com/a%20journey%20home.htm

 

[janusz]

Mustangs are so goregous. PM me when you have a cut. I want to see this!

 

[pdsage10]

I would have to agree with you on that one, the mustang is one of the best looking and performing planes ever built.

 

[pdsage10]

I moved the clip to my website and updated the link. It loads a lot faster now.

 

[FREUDENBERG_FILMS]

Mustangs are a very nice WWII aircraft but my fav is the Messerschmitt Bf-109

Those germans really knew how to build aircraft in WWII....

 

[FREUDENBERG_FILMS]

Mustangs are a very nice WWII aircraft but my fav is the Messerschmitt Bf-109

Those germans really knew there stuff in WWII....

 

[electricpig]

But then came the Spitfire with that beautifull sounding Merlin engine, and the ability to loop and dive without the engine cutting out due to fuel injection, and whipped the 109's ass...

 

[Erik Olson]

Love me some Mustang!

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[electricpig]

He, he...

 

[pdsage10]

But then came the Spitfire with that beautifull sounding Merlin engine, and the ability to loop and dive without the engine cutting out due to fuel injection, and whipped the 109's ass...

The Merlin engines rock. When the mustang first came out they were running Alisons which put the plane at a huge disadvantage in the speed department. Then they switched over to the Merlin and the mustang became the legend that we know of today.

 

[PaPa]

i gotta ask, how the hell did you shoot this? are those planes CGI? is the guy on a green screen?

 

[pdsage10]

I shot the actor sitting in the mustang on the ground at 1080. Then I took that footage and in After effects I only used 720 of the frame and added a lot of camera movement and shake. The shot where I pan back from the nose of the plane is half CGI and half live action (this version of the shot is not the final render). It took me over three months to build a p51 in 3d studio max and add the exact marking of the plane that we used during filming.
The shot where the yf-22 raptor is chasing the p51 and the shot where the yf-22 rolls in for the kill are two different shots composited together. I shot the mustang one day and the yf-22 the next month( I have two more shots that I just finished). It took me forever to do, but I think that they came out well. Special thanks to the War Birds museum and Edwards AFB for giving me access.
This CGI stuff is killing me, so I may need to hire someone to help me with the rest of the film. Does anyone know of a good compositor/ animator?

 

[electricpig]

I can help with compositing. I'm UK based though. Check out my website for showreel/details.

 

[mule ferguson]

Me too Love P51

Harold “Mule” Ferguson sails across the sky in a motor-powered parachute.

 

[Nik Manning]

I shot the actor sitting in the mustang on the ground at 1080. Then I took that footage and in After effects I only used 720 of the frame and added a lot of camera movement and shake. The shot where I pan back from the nose of the plane is half CGI and half live action (this version of the shot is not the final render). It took me over three months to build a p51 in 3d studio max and add the exact marking of the plane that we used during filming.
The shot where the yf-22 raptor is chasing the p51 and the shot where the yf-22 rolls in for the kill are two different shots composited together. I shot the mustang one day and the yf-22 the next month( I have two more shots that I just finished). It took me forever to do, but I think that they came out well. Special thanks to the War Birds museum and Edwards AFB for giving me access.
This CGI stuff is killing me, so I may need to hire someone to help me with the rest of the film. Does anyone know of a good compositor/ animator?

Next time you might want to consider buying a stock p51 3d model. No need to start from scratch everytime. LINK Great job by the way.

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Looks good. It'd be nice to stabilize some of those shots in Shake.

 

[pdsage10]

Looks good. It'd be nice to stabilize some of those shots in Shake.

My thoughts exactly, the only problem with stablizing is that I get this bluring of the p51 every time the shaking is stablized. If I had shot at a higher shutter speed, I would be able to stablize without this problem.