My project was built around the concept of character, drawing on the style and techniques of directors Edgar Wright and John Hughes to inform my work and help me develop as a filmmaker. My initial idea was to take from Hughes’… Continue Reading
I think I have talked a little about what collaborating on projects has been like throughout this semester, but not as much as I’d perhaps like to, so I thought I’d give this its own bit of focus before I get too busy… Continue Reading
Alarm Clock Original: Darkened image to get rid of bright spots, lowered saturation to reduce the blur of the numbers: Altered colours to try and make the shot more interesting (contrast between blue/yellow). High contrast to show this: Lowered saturation… Continue Reading
I’ve never really bothered to learn keyboard shortcuts before. I’ve always used ‘I’ and ‘O’ in Premiere to set the in and out points on a video, but that’s about all I knew before this course. Over the semester I’ve learnt… Continue Reading
After being unhappy with the last ‘obscured wipe’, I had another attempt at using After Effects to create this transition. I think this time I was slightly more successful, since I used the same setting and made the transition a… Continue Reading
Edgar Wright often uses crash zooms with his close ups, and this is something I want to use for my project. First though, I had to decide which method to use, and so I filmed twice for each action for… Continue Reading
I’ve been learning how to use Adobe After Effects lately in order to edit in a crash zoom and an ‘obscured wipe’, two techniques that are constantly used in Wright’s work to transition between shots, emphasise rhythm and create flow.… Continue Reading
This is just a video that someone I follow on YouTube posted about their most recent short film and their inspiration as a filmmaker, and I just found it really relevant to what I’m doing in this project and what… Continue Reading
A quick test I did with Mimo on match cutting:
For the last few hours I’ve been sitting here attempting to recreate three simple transitions/effects that Wright uses across all of his work: the crash zoom, the whip pan transition, and the ‘obscured wipe’ (where someone or something moves in… Continue Reading