Thumbnails - Chase

I think I'm getting somewhere with these thumbnails
I ended up kind of combining the ideas of a chase/hide and seek kind of game which would look quite sinister but end a little more tongue-in-cheek!

I was able to get out with my friend Jeff and Harry to see if we could shoot some test shots.  They seem to work well and coherently but I really need to see just how much this process is going to transfer across to film, so I will run off an animatic with some video in it as well

Cinemagraphs

I really like the idea of cinemagraphs

Cinemagraphs are one other way we can now tell stories with a static image.  The single moving element is informative to the patient and so I wanted to try making one myself based on the lightning image I made a few weeks back.

The flaws in this image are of course the lack of reflection of the lightning in the eyes.  I have never attempted reflections so this could be an interesting tangent to wander off down.

All in all though it was fun - and I learned a bit about the differences in colour correcting for 3D over Photoshop.  You can have a bit more painterly control over an image in Photoshop but programs like After Effects are like Photoshop in motion and as such becoming a massive part of filmmaking.

Fun times....

I've had a chest infection for the last couple of weeks - there is something going around at work, everyone seems to have come down with it so I have had to put off filming and things as I can barely get myself out of my bed.

Didn't really need this right now, I'm behind as it is!

Thumbnails

I've been trying to rattle of some more story ideas.

I had the idea of a sort of game of hide and seek with powers, like a brother and sister or something having a chase through the forest.

 

I tried to ties these ideas together in some way with a kind of overarching theme, which had some potential but unfortunately it ran the risk of getting contrived like 5 People...  I did however begin looking at the negative space around the characters and if there could be anything in the manipulation of this space.  Honestly I feel it could be important but I don't really know much about the visual storytelling language yet!

Trying to imagine location is really difficult and without experience of a lot of the space in the scene it becomes difficult to imagine how these shots might be accomplished of if they are even possible.

I do feel like it is moving a little, but I just wish I was able to come up with a story a lot easier to get things moving a little bit faster  - I am not sure why I am finding it so difficult.