Meeting

Had my individual consultation with my teacher tonight. Went to Framestore for the meeting, which was awesome.
I think the meeting went well. We covered the green screen shoot I did last week, my backgrounds and the story. I need to work on alot, obviously, but I need to think of a better title than 'Space Fabulous' (wtf?). Also, I need to start rounding 3d kids together b/c I guess they are the hardest to get on board.

Night time?

Now I feel like I'm in a ghost movie. Or no, splash some red corn syrup on there and we have another vampire film...I dunno. Whatever, I can color correct at the end.

Dawn: warm

Now I don't know if I want this to be "Industrial Dawn" anymore. This is so brown, and a little too grungy I feel for beauty shots. Arg...maybe the more traditional blue/cool scheme would be best? Color correction is also kind of washing out the composites I made to her face, so I need to keep in mind to exaggerate the hizzle out of everything I guess.

Edit in progress

The first semi-final edit. Not color corrected yet. Bla, hard to make her look like a pretty alien, the smallest changes keep turning her into the spawn of Satan.
I've tried 'reptilian eyes, 'cat eyes,' adding beveled holes in her skin...but it's making her ugly and scary. her face is too bare, so i can't stop here. I kind of like the extended tear duct tho. Times when taking a photoshop class would have come in handy.

Screen Shot 1 (Unedited)

Unedited still from thesis.

1st Shoot

I had my first shoot today in the green screen room for thesis. Went ok. Had a late start because there were alot of technical difficulties and a necessarily panicked call to Jerome to make sure everything was set up properly. I came in prepared, knowing what I was supposed to do, but having never actually practiced using the equipment (always had a lab assistant), it showed in my lack of efficiency.
My actress, DP, and AD were all great though. Really held together positive energy during the entire shoot.
Now I need to spend the next few days doing 3:2 pulldown on all footage (*remember to work in 16 bits).
Some of these shots are just gorgeous though. Not used to having such good lighting (and such a pretty actress!!).