Yesterday we spent the whole day grouped together in room 105, reviewing and getting feedback from our mentors regarding our projects. It was pretty cool because we got to see everyone else's projects, not just our own. Some very nice reels at work in 3D111, gotta tell you. I was the second to last …
I was feeling super lazy about working on slap comps. Fact. In film production school all we do before the shooting is, SOMETIMES, a demo, which is a rough version of the whole movie in someone's living room, with the director, producer and whatever crew members are available. It does help a little …
During this week we'll talk about the role of color on our reels. For such classes I worked on some grading for my current frames, aiming at the look I want on the final product: something that feels colder while keeping skin tones almost natural, just a bit less saturated and still have a nice …
I thought it would take longer to write the next post, or even to rewrite and adjust the script, but life at VFS is full of surprises, right? Made all the suggested changes, tweaked a bit of the action, made the ending a bit faster and more possible to achieve (what was I thinking when I wrote that …
Last week we had the mid-term presentations for our projects, when we met our mentors for the entire journey and got feedback from what we have so far. Remember when I said it was unlikely the script would go through more changes? I couldn't have been more wrong. Before going into the feedback …
Over the last couple of weeks I've been working slowly on this trash bin model for the final shot of the reel. I probably could go with a camera projection, but I had nothing to do during a weekend and decided to start. Oh, yeah, it was the location scout weekend. As reference for such enterprise I …
I was about to write this huge and complicated post explaining how I'd shoot my footage RAW with a 5D MkIII running Magic Lantern, but the guys at Cinema 5D did several posts regarding that workflow, and google or the Magic Lantern forum can help filling in whatever blanks you end up having while …