Cutting and sticking.
My short-running, long-taking segment of rotoscope animation is finally finished. It's taken two weeks to make just over five seconds of film, but the results are definitely worth the self-destruction.
And now we turn to the inevitable editing process. It's a chore. Final Cut Pro is not bad at all - as previously noted, files types can be a tricky bunch, but when you know what files will mix (or rather, when your course tutor does), everything finally fits into place. Which means that the scrap of rotoscoping is in its rightful place at the start of the film - just what one needs to captivate a documentary audience (I hope).
But since a five-second documentary obviously wouldn't impress for very long, I've been kept busy adding in the real-life footage and sound to bulk out the final piece. I took multiple attempts at recording myself playing little snippets (love that word) of a guitar riff, with each take featuring a different camera position on the fretboard. The result is a jumpy but appealing tracking shot. When combined with a wide shot of the entire fretboard, it works quite well as a pre-interview sequence.
However, I knew when shooting the aforementioned sequence that more work would be needed on it. I'd remembered that the microphone on my DSLR is bloomin' awful, but forgotten to borrow a better one from the college's tech department. After picking up the last Zoom handheld mic. available, I went and re-recorded the guitar audio, and thankfully kept in time so that the "remastered" version could be synced with the video footage pretty easily. Phew. And while I was at it, I also recorded the audio for some additional guitar parts which will be playing quietly in the background during the interview segment.
Speaking of which, I lastly used the Zoom microphone in tandem with my camera to record a short interview with my guitar tutor. I wanted to incorporate the style of shot commonly seen in BBC 4 programmes (chiefly, and perhaps ironically, those about music). To accomplish this, I set up my living room with a light source (table lamp) to my tutor's left and his guitar just visible leaning against the sofa to his right. This gave the interview a warm and relaxed atmosphere, and I have to thank my tutor very much for talking so well about guitar playing as a whole.
With most of the video almost done, my final big hurdle is to create some more cel shaded studies of five of my favourite guitarists - Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Marr, Eric Clapton and Buck Dharma.
Only four you say? Well I've just finished the fifth - Joe Satriani. Look down!
And now we turn to the inevitable editing process. It's a chore. Final Cut Pro is not bad at all - as previously noted, files types can be a tricky bunch, but when you know what files will mix (or rather, when your course tutor does), everything finally fits into place. Which means that the scrap of rotoscoping is in its rightful place at the start of the film - just what one needs to captivate a documentary audience (I hope).
But since a five-second documentary obviously wouldn't impress for very long, I've been kept busy adding in the real-life footage and sound to bulk out the final piece. I took multiple attempts at recording myself playing little snippets (love that word) of a guitar riff, with each take featuring a different camera position on the fretboard. The result is a jumpy but appealing tracking shot. When combined with a wide shot of the entire fretboard, it works quite well as a pre-interview sequence.
However, I knew when shooting the aforementioned sequence that more work would be needed on it. I'd remembered that the microphone on my DSLR is bloomin' awful, but forgotten to borrow a better one from the college's tech department. After picking up the last Zoom handheld mic. available, I went and re-recorded the guitar audio, and thankfully kept in time so that the "remastered" version could be synced with the video footage pretty easily. Phew. And while I was at it, I also recorded the audio for some additional guitar parts which will be playing quietly in the background during the interview segment.
Speaking of which, I lastly used the Zoom microphone in tandem with my camera to record a short interview with my guitar tutor. I wanted to incorporate the style of shot commonly seen in BBC 4 programmes (chiefly, and perhaps ironically, those about music). To accomplish this, I set up my living room with a light source (table lamp) to my tutor's left and his guitar just visible leaning against the sofa to his right. This gave the interview a warm and relaxed atmosphere, and I have to thank my tutor very much for talking so well about guitar playing as a whole.
With most of the video almost done, my final big hurdle is to create some more cel shaded studies of five of my favourite guitarists - Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Marr, Eric Clapton and Buck Dharma.
Only four you say? Well I've just finished the fifth - Joe Satriani. Look down!
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