Dogs and Cats

Treadmill Stuff And Green Screen Suit

when I first realized you can put TWO penguins into ONE movie.

Green Screen Comparison

In this video I am dancing with my friend Corey's hat once really in front of the door and the other time in front of a green screen. Can you tell which is which?

Difficulties: I tried a totally different video which took me an hour or so where Corey and I kick a chair behind us. The chairs were going to move in the green screen after we shot video of us pulling the chairs and I reversed the footage, but they would not pull straight. On the After Effects side of things, getting the green screen footage to line up exactly with the color of the actual footage was difficult, but in the end it might have helped confuse viewers with the illusion.

Eaganator (Greenscreening actor into movie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXuQmkTgvSo

This is the link because YouTube is not allowing embedding for copyrighted material.

I get into the role of Terminator, a movie that I have really enjoyed ever since I was 1.3 years old. I searched for cool movies for a long time that interested me and at the same time had camera angles that made it easy to fit somebody into with after effects.

Difficulties: getting myself to be the exact same size as Arnold in the frames proved challenging especially after I thought I had it, packed up all my equipment, went into the other lab room, uploaded the footage and realized I was too far from the camera and had to obtain a leather jacket again and reshoot. Not leaving myself enough time for green screen tweaking was also a mistake as I forgot how many countless hours it can take. Editing out Arney with the clone stamp tool was also clumsy at first but after a few tries, I finally became...                                                 "The Eraser.”

Fight or Flight.. Of Stairs! (Action Scene)

Tom and Ryan have a little dispute after Ryan steals Tom’s computer. This is one of those videos that sort of makes itself after I get a camera and 4 other testosteronian guys in the same room at the same time. As a testament to the instant creativity a lot of CAT majors poses, I really just told Tom and Ryan to have “conflict” which resulted in their improve introduction. I think it was fun for everyone and I learned a little bit about camera angles and myself along the way.

Difficulties: Motivating myself to get off my butt and get a camera and 4 testosteronian guys in the same room. After that it was really just getting the right camera angle for each sequence, not actually hurting ourselves (which we came close to failing at several times), and getting the right hit sound effects in post production. For the sound effects I probably should have recorded my own at the scene of the shoot, but they might not have been as silly.