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Week 11:

This week has been a busy one as everything is returning to a somewhat normal state. Work has returned as well as my exhaustion.

Throughout the week I have continued to rotoscope however I have found due to not having as much free time the amount of progress of rotoscoping has lessened.

We divided up our report and wrote up our dedicated parts for the group. We have also had a meeting to discuss when we would prerecord our presentation as some group members will be unable to attend the live presentation.

Later this week we had our meeting to ensure we knew who would be speaking during which parts of the presentation. Once this was discussed we began to prerecord our presentation. I along with Isaiah wrote up about the learnt outcomes and discussed how our skills and techniques had evolved during the rotoscoping process. Then I spoke about our outcomes during the presentation on myself and Isaiah's behalf.

I plan on finishing off more of the rotoscoping in the coming weeks. However, I do know that the current scene that I am working on will take a while due to the amount of detail that is being put into the scene. This is due to the fact that I have the main characters arms being tied down as well as many bystanders surrounding him. So evidently is not a small task as well as the fact that there are many cuts between each portion of the scene that I am not rotoscoping.

Week 9:

During this week I finally finished my rotoscoping of Dr. No eyes. Happy with the results, I exported and sent it through to the group. However, after everyone saying nice things about it the one suggestion was to re-go over the outline of the entire scene to ensure that it was crisp.

After, finally completing thatI went to begin the next scene I was suppose to rotoscope. After checking it out, I realised you could not differentiate the foreground (or main character) from the background. So, I reached out to call a meeting with the group to discuss whether I should be rotoscoping the entire scene.

During this meeting I found out that there had been a discussion between a couple of group members but not everyone involved in the project. These members had decided that we were not rotoscoping this portion of the video, which meant that I did not have to do this part. However, I was not feeling great that I was not included or informed about this. This also meant that I did not know what other scenes I was supposed to rotoscope as that was the only other scene I had been assigned.

Week 8:

Throughout this week I have found that some of the communication has not been so great.

I have found this due to the fact that we had no way of tracking who was doing what and where everyone was up to. Communication also became an issue when meetings were being had that should have included everyone, however they were not.

One instance of this occurred early in the beginning. I had been told to start rotoscoping the main character in a scene, to which I did. However, after completing the outline of half of the scene and then having a meeting with the director to check what brush size I should use for a Wide Shot I was told not to worry about it and that he was already rotoscoping that part.

This made me slightly annoyed due to the fact that rotoscoping is very time consuming and I now had felt like I had wasted time that I could have been using on other things. I then moved on and began to rotoscope Dr. No Eyes.

Once I had outlined and filled in the frames I realised we had not discussed how we were going to export the scene which called for me reaching out again to ask how to export it to ensure everything was consistent.

This week proved to show me how important constant communication is in a project as well as how being left out of a communicative meeting can make one feel as though they do not belong.

Week 7:

This week I am feeling a lot better!

Our group got together for a zoom meeting this week to discuss the exact details of which member was going to which parts of rotoscoping. We also discussed a timeline in which we are going to follow to help keep everyone on track.

Later in the week the director and I had another meeting to discuss further our scenes to rotoscope. As we are both doing scenes with the main character it is important that we organise a way to keep the character consistent and looking the same throughout.

We had to come up with a guide document to make sure we use the same size brushes for the different framed shots. ie. Use a size 6 bush for a midshot. After our discussion we found the most difficult part to keep consistent was the face. We have decided that I will continue to rotoscope the main character and keep the face that I have currently done which is the character looking down but to keep all others consistent I am going to continue rotoscoping the character without a face and allow the director to add on the faces to keep them more consistent.

Currently, all I am working on the scene of the main character but I will also be rotoscoping the extras in the film. However, I am unable to do a lot of the extras rotoscoping at the moment due to not having the footage found as of yet to rotoscope.

Our group is also planning to have weekly meetings to check in on the progress of the project. As well as I will be having other meetings with the director to work alongside him to ensure everything remains consistent throughout rotoscoping.

(...To defeat the Huns. I needed a few more words and I cannot get this out of my head haha)

Week 4:

As of currently, all of NSW has been entered into lockdown due to the panini (pandemic). This has caused a halt in production.

Firstly, I should probably explain what my project is, how I got there and what I have done.

Myself and a couple of friends in the course have decided to team up as a group. We have decided to create a music video for a new song from a local upcoming artist. We were sent the song to think of ideas and what direction we would like to go in with notes from the singer/songwriter. We had also discussed what role each person would play in the production of this video.

Thankfully, before the current lockdown we had organised an in person group meeting to brainstorm ideas together. As a group we came up with many ideas and scenarios not all of which have made it into the shot list, but a lot of which I received astonishing reactions both good and bad from fellow crew members when I came up with some of my ideas. including a statement from one of them asking how my brain works.

some of the ides and suggestions I had were:

- creepy acrobatics to which I had performers that could do it.

- creepy contemporary styled dance.

- a mirror but then the reflection reaches through.

- a POV of a surgical scalpel heading towards your eye.

- a Drs Headlamp which gets zoomed in on, then we zoom out to a car headlight.

After getting these ideas we left and had our own tasks to work on. Since I am 1st Assistant Director, and we did not have a completely clear vision of time in which we wanted to film and since we are a small crew I took on an extra role of costume & set design.

I have created a small mood board for items we would like to use or similar things.