Rough Cut Round 2

We are now entering the halfway stages of post-production. After the first round of rough cuts, Skye and I (Roxy) have gone through and combined what we think creates a rough cut 2 masterpiece!

Check it...

Skye's Rough cut

This is the rough - no transitions, no color correction, no effects; just shots generally where I want them.  Just like organizing math tests A-M and N-Z before putting them in alphabetical order to return to the class! Or something :/  Pay no attention to the wonky formatting - I exported this out in the wrong codex for youtube.  This video is like the Pirate Code - it's more of a guideline, really.

Shooting done yay!

Keeping the talent fed and happy

Josh gets some good closeups

I am pleased to say that we finished the last day of shooting on Sunday. Though we got a late start, we got almost everyone in the band to show up in the end and we took some lovely footage! Sunday was the day that we got the ending footage of the band playing and then sitting down and eating waffles - this mirrors what the children are doing during this time, playing air-guitar and then eating waffles.  Of course by the time the band is shooting the scene with the waffles the waffles are 2 days old and not... exactly... good. I'm half hoping and half fearing that the footage that Josh and Nasir shot of Nasir fake-throwing up so Josh can put in fake CG technicolor barf into the scene - well, I hope it doesn't make it into the rough cut  :)

And because of course there is no resting on our laurels, we have to cut the video while getting into pre-production for all the motion graphics and CG that we're going to layer in after the rough cuts are done. So here are some pre-production sketches of the little CG space creatures.

Hello there little chibi spacys!

Too robotic? Too complicated up top? Too cute underneath? The production team will need to talk about this. I also just remembered Peter Max, who did some great 70s pop art and this may be excellent inspirations for the Supernova scene... to the Internets for some ref!

Catch you in the middle of rough cuts!

A Song for You

Here's some footage of Eldren jamming during the last shoot. The lighting is so nice. I can't wait to see the finished music video!

Last day of Filming

Such a good day at the park!

Filming - Day 2

Stills while getting ready for the second day of shooting. We accomplished much today...the serious girl bazooka scene and the adventure/kingdom scene.

Production In Progess

We got some awesome shots the first day of recording. We filmed the spaceship and pirate scene.

Video of the great pirate battle.


Production Shots - Day 1

Building Blocks of Imagination

Logging and capturing ...forever

AAAH SO MANY VIDEO CLIPS!

brb - sorting and labeling all the video clips in the world from our shoots into some sort of order. But even just looking through these I can see that this video's gonna be SO great! This thing is fun to watch and was a blast to direct - one more day of shooting, this Sunday, and then we are officially done filming and on to editing!

Coming soon, a video that Roxy captured really quick on her phone that captures the wacky, crazy, unexpected fun that these shoots were :)

Spaceship Sketch

Here's what I'm going to do for the spaceship!

PROPS

Here are some of the props that will be used. We also have some crowns and capes for the kingdom scene, and sweet astronaut helmets for the space scene.

Pirate Scene


Kingdom Scene

Pirate Ship Sketches!

Skye and I have done some sketches for the pirate ships! I think we'll combine them for more awesomeness!

Roxie's


Skye's

PS To Josh

Please oh please Josh can we do THIS?!?

Make-Believe Cardboard Goodness

OMG SO COMFY THX FOR THE BOX HUMAN

Making the bazooka gun for the GIRL scene took waaay longer than it should have because I'm a sucker for Cat and couldn't bring myself to make her move when she got all comfy in the cardboard. *headdesk* But finally - 

OH YEAH BIG GUN

Tutorial Extravaganza!

This is the post where we'll all put the tutorials that we think will be useful to us in making the motion graphics.

From Josh:

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/overview-of-the-foundrys-new-cameratracker-plug-in-part-1/
http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/free-3d-matchmoving-alternative-for-after-effects/
http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/give-your-video-a-pencil-sketched-look/


From Skye:

Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle
Just FYI:  50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn
And for Final Cut: Multi-Camera editing tutorial (I really think this will help A LOT for editing)

Master Storyboard

Yay Master Storyboard!

Open publication - Free publishing - More storyboard

Masterboard outline

Outline, made in preparation for the final storyboard.

Open publication - Free publishing - More storyboard

Skye's Pre-production: sketches, notes and storyboard draft

There were several iterations of my storyboard for Eldren's music video.

Open publication - Free publishing - More video

Open publication - Free publishing - More storyboard

The team members were so pleased that, when we presented our separate concepts to the band, they unanimously voted to combine the best of all three approaches into a really fun video. The concept behind each of our sketches and storyboards was remarkably similar, a fact we all took to be a good sign. The band had done a great job of being clear in their vision and us designers had a good idea of what we could do to add to that vision.