1st Project in 7 years! (GRABS)

Thanks PK,

The photo effect was kind of fun and really easy to do. I printed the screen grab then brought it out to shoot the picture falling. It only took 2 takes. I was originally going to do this for the entire video, but I was on a time crunch.

The suicide scene is the %5 that I'm going to change. There was a glich in timeline I didn't fix where the building stops moving in the background. It was also my first attempt at green screening. You wouldn't believe all the post effects/filters I tweaked to get the green screen stuff looking right. I'm going to swap the still pictures I used in the backgrounds for some video footage of the same scenes. Did you notice the cars frozen in the background? Kind of cheesy.

Yeah, the wall is still here, along with the fish tossers, comedy club covered in gum, giant brass pig, etc etc etc. We decided when we were there by looking at the lcd on the DVX what shots looked the best. I think total filming time including running around was 9 hours spread over 3 days after the actor/actress got off work.

What did you think about the Cognoscenti logo? I just threw that on there to have something. I think my final logo will be a painter’s palette with paint on it resembling the NTSC color bar in a much less rigged fashion.

-Kevin

PS: I really enjoy watching your art as well. I especially liked the Moby Video with the 360 pans. The concept is really good. I think I might try it out sometime. I just got my fluid head tripod and I’m dying to shoot something with it.
 
That's great! How did you get the text to undulate like that? Looks very real.

-Kevin

I'll be sure to post my new logo if and when I decide to change it.
 
nice job on the video...question...how'd u get that shot with the camera goin up on the girl's face in the bedroom scene? was it just like a bunch of ropes all connected together or suttin?
 
No ropes or pulleys, although that would have been nice and given us a smoother shot. I knew we were going to slow-mo the footage so I just needed 3-4 seconds of steady footage. The friend I had doing some of the camera work was on the bed with her. He pushed the camera down to her face while slowly zooming in. We then reversed the footage in post so it looks like the camera is coming up zooming out, not the opposite. Getting it lined up just right was the hardest part and by far this was the scene that took the most takes. The scene where it looks like her head is floating, it is. She was laying down on a couple of chairs with her head suspended off the end, and a fan hidden underneath to give the illusion of the wind playing with her hair. I bought a 20'x12' green sheet for the green screen and some home depot 250-500 watt lights. I never pointed the lights at her though. I reflected the light off some $3.00 white poster boards.

-Kevin
 
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