FEATURE: Rise of the Beast-the new feature from STARS Pictures

I agree with Snazzy Flapper. I would expect an explosion to at least set a few of its surroundings on fire, such as the building complex or the small plants/tree. It will really come down to the complete video footage. Hopefully you will have that posted soon. Keep up the great work.
 
Thanks for the advice everyone!

Alex is coming over in a few hours and we'll get his last scene. This is a scene where he has to look and act like he did in the last film, so it's going to be strange, after months of seeing him in action hero mode. After shooting, he'll probably go grab some food while I cut the scene, and when he gets back we're going to do his ADR which will take a few hours. Long day ahead of me
 
Glad to have a fan =)

We're currently about a third of the way done with Alex's ADR. We're now taking a break for some of El Director's legendary cheese burgers
 
Alex is now totally done with his involvement. It only took six hours to do all his ADR, quite an improvement over last time. We also recorded his commentary =)
 
The old:
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And the new:
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I wanted the flashback scenes to feel similar to the first film, so we tried for similar angles and such. I love tying movies together like that. I used to do it all the time on my short films, so I'm glad I get the chance to do so now. Alex went a bit too short with the hair, but it works I think
 
Editing along the way allows for a quicker rough cut. Then you get in and fix everything. And yes, it's totally awesome when you can get in there and do it.

-Nate
 
I envy you editing along the way. I'm planning to make sure we do that on our next film.
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On my first flick, I did it like you. We shot all the movie and then I edited, but like Nate said, I couldn't really change anything. On Leap, I started the edit as I shot and loved how much better that worked out. It allowed me to schedule reshoots almost immediately after principle. On this film, no one was ever on set at the same time (it seems like), so being able to playback parts of a scene for the other actors was great. It allowed them to respond to the other actor's emotion, even though they weren't there. They also liked that they could see a completed scene the next shooting day and see that my crazy ideas actually worked out (we've used quite a few fake Shemps and such). I found they trusted me very quickly because they could see it all working out.
 
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Day 27

Okay, so day 27 was actually two days ago, but I’m just now getting to writing about it. Lots of good stuff to cover though, so I guess I’ll jump right in. Last week, I started on a slap comp for the big explosion. I really just wanted to see how everything was going to work out and make sure the idea I had for it would play out. I posted a still on our facebook page and other sites and received some good feedback like adding reflections and some more glow. On Sunday, day 27, Alex came over to finish his stuff. He had buzzed all his hair off and wore his same costume from the last movie. He didn’t look quite the same, but close enough. While shooting that scene, we tried to emulate one of the shots from the first Leap. Just a way to tie the two films together a bit more.

After shooting, I dumped the footage to Frankenstein and started making my offlines. We went to the store and picked up some food for later. When we got back, I cut the scene and we started Alex’s ADR using the Yeti mic. For a piece of consumer gear, I’m really impressed by it. Not quite as good as the system I had on the last film, but very close. ADR this time with Alex took just over six hours-a big improvement over last time. After his ADR, we also recorded his commentary.

Just for fun, I spent the day today watching both Wulf and Leap. Rise of the Beast is (no pun intended) leaps and bounds above those two movies, which is really cool.

Tonight I have my friends Mic and Twinkle coming over to shoot a few inserts. We’re going to have to use the greenscreen because there’s snow everywhere and the scenes these are going into are outside.
 
I actually like waiting 'til it's all in the can before beginning to edit - I feel like I'd go crazy if I were editing along the way - I also find that I learn more about the whole film as I go along and that will affect the way I cut things together and overall feel - but to each his own and there's no denying that having a rough cut of the entire film done (essentially) right after principle finishes would be pretty sweet - it's going to take us most of next year to edit my beast and I'm still concerned that we might not make 2011 festival deadlines :)

More power to you El Director!
 
Yeah, thats basically where I'm at. I'm the only one editing my feature right now and its a very slow and tedious process. Mainly because nothing is ever "perfect" so I spend more time fixing shots that should have been right to start with than I do actual editing..

Top annoyances so far are:

- Actors breaking the 4th wall
- Camera shake or weird movement of the camera
- Production gear in the shot (cables, stands.. etc.)
- Boom op screw ups (rustling the mic while dialog is happening, too far away from actor, boom mic in shot.)

Its not "that" bad, just takes alot more time and alot more creativity to get what I want. Thats how you learn though.
 
A before and after from tonight's insert shot. The guy in the mask is about to bust through the group which leads into the big chase. No roto work was needed on this shot. Only effects used were Hue/Sat, Keylight and Curves. These three effects allowed me to get the key, including getting rid of the shadows. Only one instance of Keylight was used AND even in motion the hair looks great!

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Thanks Nate!

Here's the final video for A.C. LaRocco Pizza. My "agent" is currently negotiating a price with them, as I shot this as a reel builder while giving them the option to purchase it if they like it. Well, they liked it =) The money can definitely help me finish ROTB.

 
Key looks good - although I think given the way the background looks, the setting, it might be good to throw in some cg shadows (from tree leaves or something) in order to really put them there.

The commercial looks fantastic - did you do the sound for the commercial or did you get help with location sound? (Just knowing that you typically like to ADR).
 
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