Assembling the ARMY

I made a fun little design to organize my work team (aka My Army)


So I did this mostly b/c I need to keep track of everybody, and to remember the people I still need to find....also cause it's 4:30 in the morning, heh heh.

See, after making this, I realized I totally forgot to add my sound design people. That'll come into play more so next semester though, because the dj I've had working with me might not work out.

Shoot #2

I had another green screen shoot. Hopefully this will be the last one with my actress - hard to get everyone's schedules to match up. This shoot went much faster. I only had to do some 'filler' shots so I think we filmed about half of what we did the last time. They had just installed all the new green screen equipment too so Tom was in there helping out, which made things happen alot faster. So this one was completely wrapped in 3 hours while the other one really made the full 6 hours.
There will be at least one more shoot because I need to finish my miniature model and then shoot it on the green screen. I'm thinking of just doing a simple zoom in towards the model, so Bonnie and I should be done with that shoot in like, 10 minutes, maybe 30 minutes at the most if we run into technical problems.
I need to start cutting these clips together. I'm also realizing that I wasn't working in 16 bits when I did the 3:2 pulldown on my other shots so now I need to redo all the work I did. BLARG. Well, at least there have been so many exterior elements that I've had to work on that I didnt get too in depth with the actual finalized footage.

The Turkey Plan

Alright, so, as in any other year at SVA, a long weekend from thurday-sun off doesn't give me enough time to go home for the holiday so I will not be going to New Mexico. However, this means I can do more work (yay...). Because the schools will be closed and I don't have a functioning computer at home that is powerful enough to do "real work", the plan will be to watch all of the matte painting tutorials the school has up on the server on my laptop *remember to put them on your drive sometime this week*. And I will also to continue to work on my miniature model of my space loft.

MONEY SHOT

Listening to our speaker in Thesis Topics today, I'm thinking of changing up my boards a bit. He suggested to really make this all the best shots together, but I mean, there has to be a little bit of story, come on. But this guy had a point though - Either make the entire thing really short, spectacular and flawless or have at least 2 "money shots." I did not think about an individual shot as a selling point, just the production in it's entirety. I know at the end of the school year too we need to submit our 'money shots.' So yeah....I should really think this through before I can't make changes to the story anymore.
Also, I've started to collect the physical materials I'm going to use to make my 'space loft.' I want to model some of it in real life and shoot it on green screen to hopefully reduce render time. Also, it's just fun working with your hands man, I want to do this because I miss fine arts too.

NEW TITLE

Oh baby, I've officially changed my thesis title from "Space Fabulous" to "Industrial Dawn." Much more appealing to the masses I believe...

space couch for dave

Dave Chen is AMAZIN'. He's going to make these sketchy instructions into an awesome space couch. Here I've given him a reference shot, the measurements of what my actress was sitting on in real life, and the rough concept.
I still gotta make up a ton of sketches for the rest of the room so that bryan can pressure a junior into making it, and jason's making me a mascara bottle. Everyone is awesome.
Oh 3d...