#practicle

A Computer Lab serves as a dedicated space where students can engage in various educational activities that enhance their digital literacy and proficiency. At IVPS, the computer lab is designed to cater to the specific needs of both junior and senior students. It offers a wide range of software applications, internet access, and multimedia resources that support the curriculum and foster a hands-on learning environment. By providing access to technology, the computer lab enables students to acquire essential skills that are vital in today's digital age.

Psychologists explore different concepts like the cognition, emotion, phenomenological motivation, personality and behaviors among others. The psychologists employ the empirical methods to solely refer to causal and the correlation relationships between the different psychological variables. On the other hand, there are other psychologists who don’t rely on empirical and deductive methods but…

It has become clear that many of the shots for this film will require special effects in order to make them as convincing as possible. Things like bullet hits, explosions, fire and any other war and battle elements that are required for a war film will need to be added in a safe and practical way. I have done research into the different techniques of adding these effects, and it comes down to two possible methods - Visual effects, or practical effects.

Terminology

The terminology for visual/practical/special/live effects can change a lot depending on who talks about them, but for this project I am referring to visual effects as effect produced digitally in post-production, and practical effect as effects produced live in the shot.

Below is a video that compares both visual and practical effects, but focuses on a bullet impacts on the ground. (Here special refers to digitally created effects and visual refers to live, in camera effects)

Although both methods seem to produce convincing results, I feel this project will benefit most from using digitally created, visual effect, as this method is more affordable and much safer, especially when it come to effects like explosions and bullet hits. 

Despite visual effect seeming to be the most beneficial choice, there may be specific shots that benefit more from the alternative method. Things like rubble or dirt flying through the air can be captured quickly and easily on camera, and would save a lot of time in post production, as to crate the same effect digitally would require hours of editing and manipulation.

Michal and I decided to use practical effects for the leg caught in barbed wire shots, as it should be fairly easy to construct a fake leg and impale barbed wire onto it, but as we have a number of shots that have the impaled leg in, it would take a very long time to build one digitally and position it over the actors leg for every shot it appears in.