Finding Time

After a couple of months hiatus, Colour Grader Luke McPake and I both have some free time coming up to finish the last 4 days of Online Editing, not including Sound Design, which will be done immediately afterwards.

Unfortunately I've missed a few of the major film festival deadlines, but there are always more festivals around.

Big Thanks to Trade Aid for sponsoring us some fair trade coffee to get it done!

Post-Production on hold.

I'm currently preparing for the final week shooting Kaikahu Road (as Director of Photography). Filming 4th-8th July on RED HD.

To keep up to date on this production you can become a fan of Kaikahu Road on facebook


North Pole Deception After Effects Master Timeline:

Lots of layers required to grade one scene in the elve's house:

The Factory!

Not quite final comp. Machine behind the front one is actually supposed to be a different one.

Looking for a Genie

I decided I need a little bit of help finishing everything I'm working on at the moment, so I did a quick search on Trade Me for a Genie.. a real life, three wish granting Genie.

I had a few promising leads, so I asked questions on several auctions (scroll to bottom for questions)...

Genie Depressed Bottle
Ancient Lamp "I don't deal in fake rubbish"
Yasmin Genie #3
Genie Bottle
Lavender Oil in Genie Bottle
Blue Genie Bottle
Retro Genie Bottle
Alladin Large Genie Soft Toy Plushie

Back to finishing NPD online tomorrow..

Malcolm Xmas.

Original footage

Television grade (looks brighter on CRT):

Hand-held motion tracking

I filmed a door with a cross on it today with shaky hand held camera.



Now we need to motion track these videos frame by frame in after effects to make it steady, then copy the motion onto some of my steady elf interview shots, and kapow! The elf interviews have the illusion of looking hand held, and therefore, seem more "realistic".

On it goes..

Still experimenting with colour grading and artificial lights etc. Sequence isn't on my computer so I don't have footage yet. Will upload some still by the end of the week.