Time Stacked - A Film by Kurt Jewell

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Time Stacked - When you gotta pull an all nighter before finals. Kind of a Cinderella tale...only, not quite.


I'm in late on this one. Time Stacked has been fun, but it turned out more work than I bargained for. Too many special effects and not enough sleep. And then there is the music...I just threw the score together tonight. Next time I'm gonna find a musically inclined buddy somewhere and do that part right.

This film was an adventure and I learned a lot about the effects I used (which was the point for this one). Some turned out the way I wanted while others...well, you'll just have to see for yourself.

I did have fun and I thought my actors pulled off solid performances under my work-in-process directing.

Enjoy!!!
 
BTS -

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Our Star.

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My lighting expert watches a high-tech light fall apart.

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A shot from the camera side.

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Prepping for a shot.
 
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Screen shots showing the chroma blur and the fun I had keying:

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Can see some of the chroma blurring on and around actor's face. And keying that little trinket was a royal pain in the behind.

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Setup for cool sfx shot.
 
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Holy cow, another one? Man you all are coming out of the woodwork. Welcome. I shot mine in Minn too, with a fellow DVXUser named Joe Johnson.
 
Yay Kurt! Glad to see you jumped in this one. Can't wait to see the SFX you've cooked up for this one. :)
 
Mark Harris said:
Holy cow, another one? Man you all are coming out of the woodwork. Welcome. I shot mine in Minn too, with a fellow DVXUser named Joe Johnson.
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Cool to hear MN making it's mark on the fest. We're not coming out of the woodwork though, we're swimming in those 10,000 lakes. It's been a wet year!
 
You used "Stacked" and "Cinderella" in the same line...perhaps you should post some pix...:evil:
 
Anybody else have lots of fun keying with DVX footage. I got pretty decent results, even though it was MiniDV footage. The color space issues were painfully obvious.

Anyone have comments about keying with HDV footage. I hear it still has some color space issues, but in theory it should be better just due to the higher resolution.
 
kurtmo said:
... Anyone have comments about keying with HDV footage. I hear it still has some color space issues, but in theory it should be better just due to the higher resolution.
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Night and day difference. Mark Sawicki discusses how they used the HVX200 to pull keys on a feature with very good results in his Special Effects book and we've keyed HVX footage very successfully dozens of times.
 
Mark Johnson said:
Night and day difference. Mark Sawicki discusses how they used the HVX200 to pull keys on a feature with very good results in his Special Effects book and we've keyed HVX footage very successfully dozens of times.
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Our HVX keys have been extemely easy to pull.:beer:
 
The color space is 4:2:2 for HVX. That's gonna be better. Standard HDV is MPG2, so it is 4:2:0 color space. So in theory it wouldn't be much better than MiniDV, except for hte resolution.

I'd like to key HVX footage sometime, just to see for myself.
 
kurtmo said:
The color space is 4:2:2 for HVX. That's gonna be better. Standard HDV is MPG2, so it is 4:2:0 color space. So in theory it wouldn't be much better than MiniDV, except for hte resolution.

I'd like to key HVX footage sometime, just to see for myself.
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Most of the keys I have done with the HVX and After Effects Keylight in CS3 have been one click miraculous keys. I have been quite impressed. (Of course the lighting on set must be done well, but then the rest comes easy.
 
I used Keylight and AFter Effect 7.0. I agree about the lighting. I think I did a solid job with lighting, but it was still tough with miniDV.

I did tweak the settings a bit in keylight and finally got what I wanted for most shots.
 
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