Text and transition planning

We are planning to re-record the footage either at some point today or tomorrow the goal is to
get it done before the Easter break (march 28th) so that way i have extra footage
allowing me to do some extra work over Easter. In the meantime i am continuing to
work on post production elements.

I also have starting planning out things like the text countdown
on scene transitions which will be something along the lines of “23:55 minutes remaining until impact)

To do this i chose a text font which looks like a digital clock to make it feel more like a timer.
The timer it’s self i created by using a script which counts down it made a couple of adjustments
to change the starting times which i can do for each scene when it’s needed

27th march update

At the start of the day we did our scrum and distributed our jobs among us for us to do over the
Easter break so everyone knew what they were doing i was assigned to continue working on my
footage and see if i can get the footage fixed with the tracking issue using other plugins such as mocha.
We have been collaborating every so often to see each other's work and provide feedback.
The rest of the group is all working effectively and getting everything done on the timeline that we
expect. We should have 4 completed bits of footage ready for the MVP provided we run into no issue.
It’s likely if i can’t get the footage fixed we are going to just re-record it with a tripod to make the camera
perfectly still to eliminate some barriers to what could stop us with the tracking.

The group as a whole is happy with our progress apart from the issues with the tracking which has
caused us to take longer than expected but we should still remain on track.

Starting the visual effects on the lab

Today i have started on the lab scene which i am going to matt paint and do some coloring
and masking to make some adjustments to the scene when needed.
My the first part i wanted to track an image to the scene however they is some issues with the footage
which is making tracking difficulty i have attempted to use different methods and various fixes with
no results. After speaking to my group and a lecture we have decided than the issues with the
footage are harder to solve that we expected and we are planning on rerecording the footage
with a tripod and some other changes to offset potential issues which could cause the tracking
problems.

(on the image shown the tracking lines should be more compact and within the square)

Otherwise i have been working on stuff with other members to assist until new footage is available.
As well as that i have been doing some of the other work that the project needs such as posters
and updating document


The group is all involved and make the collective decision to re-record the footage
as it would likely be faster to do so that fixing the old one would be. Having the whole group able to
provide assistance is useful as everyone is familiar with after effects and the software we use to provide
troubleshooting and then decided when it’s not worth fixing and restarting.

Beginning Production

We have produced a title sequence to go at the start of the project this has our names and a mixture of stock footage to create an opening scene this is something that we all had some creative direction on to help put it together. We wanted to have some of the text move to give it more life however in the end we decided against it as we wanted all text to be either still or moving for constancey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33sosJ-2d-g

As a team we all have our own jobs to do but we regularly discuss and look over each others work to
see how we can improve and share creative input. Everyone is filling their roles and working well together
to provide feedback to each other to see what we can all do to improve.

Overall we are on track for the project with just a small bit of footage left to get to finish off while other
members have begun working on the visual effects already for the project.  

Synoptic project Filming Oxclose

We met up in Oxclose so we could film a lot of the outside sections of the project we got a large amount of the footage we needed done with behind the scenes as well. We had 3 of us their i was holding and using the camera while charlie and Jake were acting in some of the shots. To steady the camera we just had to use what we could as we didn't have a tripod so a mixture of balancing against a fence and a tree stump were used to steady the camera when needed. We are all confident the footage is good and we won't need to rerecord any of it at all.

We might have had a few issue with consistency of lighting but this will be fixable with some colour correcting in after effects.

Synoptic Project Filming the News

Today we have begun the first of the filming for the Before the after. We filmed the news scene which is the only part which requires a script (Prepared beforehand)  we took some time to get the tripod and camera set up to get the angle and lighting right for the shoot. We did run into the issue of having low battery and not knowing when it might ruin out meant we had to keep the camera turned off whenever it wasn't filming and had to work quickly around it. We were working with someone else who was outside the group so they had to learn the script taking up some time but after that, we were able to capture the footage. We got the footage we needed as well as some for behind the scenes.

Synoptic project progress 5th of march

We have completed preproduction and we were expecting to start recording the footage last week however due to the weather conditions we had to suspend filming which we are now hoping to get started this week.

Otherwise the group is working well and what we can do is coming together to a high standard for the planning, once we have some footage we can begin doing the proper work. We did want to start recording earlier however we can't control the snow and once it's past we should be on track.