Re-cap Scene

As we had planned a little recap scene in the style of Shaun of the Dead I went through and picked what shots I think would work with the lines being said. When Me and Hannah we talking through about idea for this scene one of us said about crossing out the drugs/ drinks as it shows the difference between what happened and what the police officer thinks happened. In the conversations we thought up the idea of having it styled like a pencil drawing and then having the image literally being rubbed out by a rubber. I found a tutorial Online about how to do this in Photoshop really well so I exported out a freeze-frame of the image that i thought worked and followed the tutorial.

First of all I had to create a second layer on top of the background layer. Add adjust the composition setting to Colour Dodge. You then invert the layer by pressing cmd I. This then leaves the images looking blank. The next stage is to add on an effects called Guassian blur, setting the pixels to around 18 pixels, but dependent on the amount of detail it altered slightly on each image. I then altered the saturation to make the image black and white. The tutorial didn't do this but then I also altered the contrast as some images from the film were very flat, this then created more depth to the image and I think improved it a lot. 

Before altering saturation.

After adjusting contrast

Prior to this project I created a titles that looked like it was being hand writing. i created this with in the style of a stop motion animation with rebelling up a short sequence with a large number of photos. I  started to create this sequence of the shots being rubbed out using this process. I exported the image as a JPEG, then rub out a small section, re export it with a number (for example 001). I continued this process until the area I wanted was rubbed out.

Selection of photos to create rubbing out.

I then imported each of these images into MC. I organised them into a bin and created a sequence to build the clip on. I added each image for the length of 2 frames and once they were all on the timeline they played out the motion of rubbing it out. I repeated this with several freeze frames. I then created a Video Mix-down of each sequence to then be added to the Fine Cut timeline.

When discussing the logics of this scene with Hannah, we talked about the need of it and who's perspective it was. I thinks its not very clear on who exactly perspective the image is. The voice over is of the police offices but then the visuals show the original truth being altered, but I think it wouldn't show the original it would just be the altered images. We decided that instead of having the voiceover Hannah would play around overlaying the interviews and sounds from whats happened building up like a crescendo, almost like the build up of lies that they are telling. I think this would work a lot better then just retelling the audience what they have just been told. I then thought up that instead of having it rubbed out I could have it more like its being cribbed out with a pen and then all the lines and scribbles build up as the sound does until its all just a mess.

Instead of doing this in Photoshop and rebuilding the sequences I thought that this could easily be done in Aftereffects. I imported the freeze-frame in and added a black background to the sequence. I then use a mask tool to subject a specific area and used key frames to map out the path of the "Pen" scribbling out areas of the frame.

Adding keyframes for the "Pen"