I’ve had half a dozen projects to do for the last ten weeks… and they all need to be done this tuesday. So I’m spending even more time then usual in front of an editor trying to get everything done.
The assignments are worth it, most will go directly on to my reel and what won’t is at least teaching me something.

This is an example of the sort of shot I’m working on. It’s just a generic piece of video shot a few years back, it would go on my reel if not for the dozens of other students that have done the same shot.

The first step is to key the screens, which isn’t too hard. There are places where you can’t exactly just do a one click key however, and a few small spots where you have to go in frame by frame and rotoscope. Secondly you have to track the shot, whatever goes into the monitors has to move with the camera. Third you have to make the video in the screens look like it’s on a TV and lastly I add some color correction so it doesn’t look so plain. None of those steps are really that hard, but they all are time consuming and tedious.
What I’ve got so far looks like this, it’s not done but it’s getting closer.

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Some of you might have heard about a promising interview I had week before last, I’ve got a follow up this thursday so we’ll see how it goes.

I might get to go to LA this next weekend. A friend of a friend is shooting something has invited him to be the FX supervisor. A few of us are going along and should be able to see our friends who are now working LA. I’ll post some pictures if it happens, hopefully I can find the money to make it work.

David Hildreth