Roto-Scoping : After Effects Title Work

I ran into a problem on one of my last titles, in the fact I wanted part of the clip to overlay the text. As you'll see from the two frames below, the moment Ricky stepped infront of the text the white overlay would affect his face and it looked unnatural  I wanted to leave the text on the brick yet have ricky walk past it without the two clips affecting each other.

So I first duplicated the base layer with Ricky walking, then carefully I made a basic RotoScope of him and then going by frame by frame of the clip I touched it up and made sure the mask fitted properly.

Once completed I applied the RotoScope to composition and I was able to have Ricky walking past the text without being effected by the white overlay making the text look like it is in fact on the wall.

Creating Titles : 3D Tracking

One of the final tasks of the edit was to create the titles, we decided to use Adobe After Effects. 

To start off I went through our final 2 minutes rough cut to find the clips that titles could be applied to (keeping in mind some of the pan shots were done primarily for motion tracking). Once happy with the clip I exported it from final cut pro into After Effects.

Once the clip was in After Effects, I created a new composition and started the 3D Camera Track tool and left it to Analyse the clip, depending on the complexity of the camera work would reflect the time needed.

I was then presented with all trackable points, then it was just a case of finding the right one and applying a text layer to it.

Once the text was placed I then edited its dimensions and made it look realistic with the 3D space tools

Then to add depth I added a drop shadow.

Once happy with the text and shadow I just played around with positioning until I was finally happy with my finished title.

3D Text For Movie Title

The Motion Tracking and titling of our opening is nearly complete but to make the movie title stand out more we decide to make 'Motive' 3D with a chrome Gloss Effects.

I first modeled the text in Cinema 4D

I then added material effects to the text to give it a chrome glossy look.

Finally I added an array of lights in various positions to give the text depth and the ultimate 3D look.

I then Rendered out into Photoshop for final touching up.

Once I was happy with the text, I then dropped it into After Effects to create the final title. I added various flares and pre-keyed optical flares, once timed and tracked I was able to use them as a transition into the text.

Permissions

As we were shooting our main part of our opening in Westminister we had to apply for a film permit, below you can see our application for the permit. 

I later got a reply from the City of Westminster and then I contacted Sir to get the needed documents to get an approved permit.

Production Schedule

Here is the production Schedule for our filming including our plan for shots. It includes locations and timing we will aim to meet when filming.

Call Sheet

Animatic StoryBoard

Here is our storyboard put in to an animatic with a colour gradient, sound effects and backing sound.  We are happy with the outcome and gives it the storyboard a lot of life, it helps us get a really good idea of the whole thriller intro.

Week 6 Update

Storyboard

Here is our storyboard for our thriller opening, we are really pleased with the outcome as it shots a variety of shots and helps build up and image of what the final piece will look like. The only thing that could be improved is the fact that one of the actors was unavailable to play the 'Target" meaning we are missing around 4 shots, we shall do these when he is available and add it to the storyboard then.

Actors Being Used.

Music & Sound Effects

Suspense Music, this will be the backing music through our opening.

Sound Effects:

Here are the foley sounds we will use in the animatic. They will be used along side our sound track with the sotryboard to create the final animatic.

Editing Parity

These are pictures of the three of us taking in turns to edit parity

Iconic Directors

Iconic directors was a fun task that we did as a group together. Alex, Nicole and myself all met up and researched directors of large films. This gave us some detailed information about some directors, which will be helpful in the future. We decided on drawing a simple drawing of what our directors look like then put them on wooden sticks, we then spoke the research that we found out about each dirtector.

Red Carpet Productions Logo Analysis

Here is the idea and analysis behind our logo for 'Red Carpet Productions'

Dexter Edit

Here is our Dexter Edit, we were only able to film half of it as the tape corrupted. We managed to film the kitchen routine scene which we were overall very happy with. We learnt a lot form this experience like lighting, camera angels, positioning and general camera work. Our skills using the camera have developed a lot since this shot.

Week 4 Update

Here is our update from Week 4

Week 3 Update Video

Red Carpet Animated Intro

Here is the intro for our production company "Red Carpet Productions"

Production Company Logo: Red Carpet

Here is our production company logo, Red Carpet Productions:

Scene timeline

This is a rough outline of what we plan to film for our opening title sequence.