FEATURE: Stricken the Feature - A Matt Sconce Film

Nice to read how this is all progressing, and how professionals like Brad got connected into it here on this site. Cool...
 
Gary Sconce said:
Alan, you should hear how good the street scene where you ran boom turned out... The one where we used the hyperchariot... Fantastic!
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True Dat! There was a part in that walk and talk where David Fine says "Sounds like fun" and a car driving by revs its engine like an idiot and ruins our best take...OR SO WE THOUGHT! But they underestimated us...we have a secret weapon. The Bradinator! Yep, he used an alt take for the audio and synced it with the scene. Goodbye lamo truck revving engine dude! Mwah Ha Ha. Oh, the annoying Jet at the end of the dialogue vanished as well. Woohoo!
 
Gary Sconce said:
Alan, you should hear how good the street scene where you ran boom turned out... The one where we used the hyperchariot... Fantastic!
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Thanks.

The hyperchariot is the (excuse my grammar) maddest awesomerific-cooly invented pully I've ever seen. Once I saw that thing, I felt right at home. Love that thing.
 
Matt Sconce said:
True Dat! There was a part in that walk and talk where David Fine says "Sounds like fun" and a car driving by revs its engine like an idiot and ruins our best take...OR SO WE THOUGHT! But they underestimated us...we have a secret weapon. The Bradinator! Yep, he used an alt take for the audio and synced it with the scene. Goodbye lamo truck revving engine dude! Mwah Ha Ha. Oh, the annoying Jet at the end of the dialogue vanished as well. Woohoo!
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Hahaha.

That lamo truck revving engine dude wanted a part of his "signature" in the film. The Bradinator, however, took extreme matters and said,

"Yo yo, u mess'n wit mah au-di-o,
we ain't like'n wut u dit, so
turn it off, mute mute, bye bye, bro"
 
Alan H. Chang said:
Thanks.

The hyperchariot is the (excuse my grammar) maddest awesomerific-cooly invented pully I've ever seen. Once I saw that thing, I felt right at home. Love that thing.
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Aw, thanks! I would like to take credit for the design, but I stole the concept from the guys who shot the running shots in the movie 'Vantage Point'. I just improved upon it a wee bitty. They probably stole it from someone else... :thumbsup:

It sure beats heck out of walking/running steadycam shooting on rolling surfaces. On the rough stuff though, my Hypercam is still the bomb. :D

Wait until you see my new toy, the Aftershock Bodycam! Kawabungalishious! :engel017:
 
Great to see Matt " Stricken" is becoming a reality .

I'll be looking for a DVD in the near future I hope :thumbsup:
 
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Wow!
I'm not really a fan of horror, so skipped over the Stricken thread for far too long. Last night idly clicked while randomly lurking, promptly got hooked and devoured all 647 posts. What a ride! :2vrolijk_08:

Many thanks to all for sharing the experience!

A question - Shocklights? Something that Dad built, search doesn't turn up any other references. Any chance we could get some more info on these??

Anything further on when we get to see this???? :beer::beer:
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uglysexy said:
Viva the Hyper Chariot!!!
(I wonder would it be good in a gladiator film...like Ben Hur?)
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Yay Hyperchariot! :love4:

For a gladiator film with chariots, I would build a camera car with hot head steadycam abilities for front and rear. I would probably use an '85 V6 Pontiac Fiero with no plastic body except the roof on it. It is the perfect car for an inline camera car; light, fast, mid-engine and nimble. You would put the camera in the place of the front trunk for chasing and in the rear trunk area for leading. I would move the front radiator to near the front foot panel, thus opening up the nose for a steady platform.

Others have used the Fiero and have been very successful. :engel017: (I have thought about doing this someday, and even have two Fieros stored for building the one vehicle!) It is all about having the time... :violin:Ah, time... :undecided
 
We are in the 'editing chamber of glory'. Matt is throwing another layer on the huge scene at the end of STRICKEN. Then he adds particles for rain with trap code particular.

The 'Terminator' is humming along in editing madness. Matt is like a maniacal phantom of the opera at at the huge pipe organ, hands moving rapidly. :shocked:

In this scene, we did thousands and thousands of key frames with the CC wire removal tool, then masked out other items, all at 4K, then flipped the image 90 degrees, placed it by a digital ten story hospital, placed a lit, night cityscape in the background, added lightning...

Now we are positioning lights in 3D space to add to the mix. ... Here comes the rain...

WHAT A SCENE!!!:thumbsup:
 
Duplicating clouds, after stretching them, adding motion to them, animating the background clouds, adding multiple codes of trap code particular rain to give the scene depth, making sure the background is hazy has the correct feel to convey correct cloud distance from the camera... (The Tyndall effect)... :)

Now doing a test render to make a check on the cloud motion and see if it moves correctly.

The Terminator really renders fast! That is really useful to us while editing so we can keep on working quickly.

WHAT A SCENE!!! :Drogar-Happy(DBG):

Editing madness continues... :kali:
 
It is amazing to see the culmination of the three story green screen wall we used on the special effect shoot nights. All that work... for EVERYTHING! Yay! If you are new to this thread, go back and check out the 3 story green screen we used for this scene. We had over 20 on crew that night, shot with the RED camera turned sideways on a 24 foot tall hoist, and took over a whole house.

...Color matching the reflection of the sky in the rain cascading down the side of the 10 story hospital building... Lighting David Fine's face a little better... Adding glass particles falling from the window from Action Essentials... Pulling the glass into its own composition to check it... Glass_03mov... Wow!... Shrinking glass to scale...Positioning the top of the glass animation in the correct spot...

WHAT A SCENE!!! :D

We are having fun! :beer:
 
Well, I am excited to see how this render turns out. After that, A couple tweeks and then that scene will be added into the timeline.
 
Like others just found this thread and really enjoyed reading about your process! I made a 15min short film and something as easy as it was took almost a year in post; so what you've put on your plate and how quickly it's moving...awesome!

Any plans to screen the film in the Bay Area ?
 
Here is a screen shot of the Scene that we used the 3 story Green Screen wall to get. It is the one with the wire removal and many layers.
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