weekly comments

 This week was definitely a week.... not much happened... again. However one of my actors won't be able to at in my fictional short, so now I have to find a new one, that's fun and by fun I mean annoying. however I did see both Gravity and The interview, the Interveiw made me laugh and Gravity gave me astrophobia. I need to learn how to make distortion on purpose for my fictional short, as ghosts tend to cause that to happen to videos. I learned that geckos love tomatoes, i placed one out so i could slice it and fedd it to is feeder crickets and turned my back ad within 2 seconds he was out of his cage and sucking out the insides of the tomato.

This is how i'm making my ghot in my project (sort of)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhFf1mnvBQ

The tortoise, the hare, and the car.

       This article talks about the making of the Mercedes commercial featuring the tortoise and the hare. Which just so happened to be made by the guy who directed Maleficent. The director, Robert Stromberg says that he was up for the challenge of building this new commercial  and liked that it was different from what Mercedes usually does. He states that the hardest part was the animals, because they were humanesque he had to fit alot of expressions and personality into a short period of time. And the other big challenge was trying to works with Oregon's uncooperative forests. The reason for this commercial even existing is because Mercedes wanted to do something different during the Superbowl to grab everyones attention.
  So the tortoise and hare Mercedes commercial was made by the guy who directed Maleficent. Yup that commercial where the tortoise drives the car to win the race was made by him. Quite a different tone that this commercial sets from that movie, but I liked it. It was cool to see something different like tha during the superbowl but I also found it odd that they tried to hype it up. I've seriously never seen a commercial being hyped up before this......

A few's a crowd

     This article gives some advice to create the illusion of much more people being in a film than there actually is. One technique for doing this is to close the camera in on someone with a small group of extras in the background and some party sound effects or whatever you need to make it sound like there's more of whatever's there than there actually is. The other option, which is more complex to pull off is to have a camera at a fixed angle and take multiple shots of the same actors in different costumes in different areas then editing them together to make it look like there's a lot of people.

        I've actually know about that second method for a while, but that first one was something I've never thought about. It's a great way to create the illusion needed for a shot with a low budget for hiring extras, the masking method mentioned in the second option for making it look like alot of people are walking to the camera is something I don't want to do, let's just say I don't have great experiences with masks.......