Bad Dreams
I exercised again last night, so I didn't get started on the color correcting until about 7:00PM. Spent some more time trying to fix the grainy shots from "Corporate Zombie", based on some research I've been doing on noise removal. We'll see how the renders turn out.
I also fixed up some more shots from the first scene of "Mother In-Law Zombie". The first two shots just weren't doing it for me, and since they're the first two shots in that section of the movie, that wasn't a good thing. So, I replaced them with different shots that I liked better.
Spent some more time on Scene 5, which is a night-time scene where we find out that Vida (the Mother In-Law) has come back to life. I'd like it to look creepy, but we didn't light it that way (we lit it flat). So I'm using a plugin that lets you put light patterns in the shot in post; it's pretty cool, and seems to be doing the trick by giving a blue moonlit glow to the highlights, and also putting some subtle but weird lighting patterns on faces and shadows. I also experimented with some shots where the protagonist faints; I duplicated the shot and faded in and out a color burn as the shot shudders and she swoons, resulting in a "Fight Club"-esque effect.
I didn't stop working on this scene until about 11PM. I've found that whenever I work this late, I have an entire night of dreams about whatever it is I've been working on. This is extremely annoying; in my dreams last night I was color correcting the same shot over and over and over and over again. Usually I'll wake up and be annoyed about it, and try to convince myself to dream about something else, but I pretty much always just start having the exact same dream again. The same thing happened when I was editing. It doesn't make for a very good sleep, and I end up being tired for the entirety of the following day.
Tonight I hope to finish Scene 5, and possibly Scene 6, and then get a better night's sleep.
Ryan
I also fixed up some more shots from the first scene of "Mother In-Law Zombie". The first two shots just weren't doing it for me, and since they're the first two shots in that section of the movie, that wasn't a good thing. So, I replaced them with different shots that I liked better.
Spent some more time on Scene 5, which is a night-time scene where we find out that Vida (the Mother In-Law) has come back to life. I'd like it to look creepy, but we didn't light it that way (we lit it flat). So I'm using a plugin that lets you put light patterns in the shot in post; it's pretty cool, and seems to be doing the trick by giving a blue moonlit glow to the highlights, and also putting some subtle but weird lighting patterns on faces and shadows. I also experimented with some shots where the protagonist faints; I duplicated the shot and faded in and out a color burn as the shot shudders and she swoons, resulting in a "Fight Club"-esque effect.
I didn't stop working on this scene until about 11PM. I've found that whenever I work this late, I have an entire night of dreams about whatever it is I've been working on. This is extremely annoying; in my dreams last night I was color correcting the same shot over and over and over and over again. Usually I'll wake up and be annoyed about it, and try to convince myself to dream about something else, but I pretty much always just start having the exact same dream again. The same thing happened when I was editing. It doesn't make for a very good sleep, and I end up being tired for the entirety of the following day.
Tonight I hope to finish Scene 5, and possibly Scene 6, and then get a better night's sleep.
Ryan
posted by Ryan Graham at 11:00 AM
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