After Effects

We had the footage from our shoot at the workstation and needed to do a few things with it. I had missed the session on green-screen/chroma key but managed to catch up just before we all started on the work we were doing in that session. I did this by selecting a colour to remove (the green) and then modifying the settings such as the harshness of how much it would take out so that I could make the green completely disappear without leaving a glow around the person in the shot. I would now be able to put anything into the background and make it look like this character was there and not in front of a green wall.

In this session we wanted to take the footage of the bleeding wall and duplicate it on the other side of the shot so that we could create the illusion of a corridor. To do this we first cropped the shot and moved it to where it would be most suitable and got the bit in the timeline where the blood came out of the wall. We then used the "flop" tool to duplicate the footage but facing the opposite direction (only not upside down) Once re-aligned this footage looked just like a corridor with a little bit of cropping and tweaking.

We then used the tracking dots to attach some eyes to our character in the green screen shot. For this we first opened the shot and attached tracking points to prominent features on the characters face that would not move much or change during film so that the tracking points could latch onto them. We then opened a file to add an image of some eyes from a different shot and attached them to these tracking points just over the eyes of the character giving her some strange eyes that did not look right. The tracking worked quite well for a while but as soon as the character moved too much the tracking points were lost and left a pair of eyes floating in the middle of the screen. If the tracking point had a strong object to pin itself to like a big dot on the character then it may have stayed with the movement of the character.

We could also use after effects to improve the aesthetics of the blood rushing down the wall but the only things I managed to do this session were make it look more red and then do my own version of the blood in paint which did not work very well.