Assignment #9: Green Screen! And Little Men at Breakfast.

    

     Green screen is fantastic, however it can get pretty arduous at the same time.  I combined a good amount of the footage we gathered in class to create this little man breakfast scene.  The background and scene objects were all tweaked in photoshop and then imported into AE.  Using Keylight and the Matte Choker, I adjusted the 6 videos and synched them up so that they could be relatively believable together.   

     I definitely had to sketch out the setting and pacing in my head a number of times because at some point in time in each video, the subject leaves frame and I didn't want the subject to walk out in mid air after it was keyed out (unless I put that video in between two objects, like I did with the video in between the toaster and the ketchup bottle)  There are so many more things I'd like to learn- especially some settings that could help keying out hair, skin tones, lighting, etc.  

Here is it!  Little Men at Breakfast.  The file was very large so I had to export it at a lower quality setting to upload onto Vimeo at its 500MB limit.  Beware, it's a lil' grainy.

Little Men at Breakfast from Candace Lau on Vimeo.

The next couple of posts until the end of the year will be devoted to our final projects...until then!