I am doing my film as a Cross-Cut meaning I will have the Man and the Woman doing certain things at the same time in different scenes while the perspective is cutting back and forth. I am making the scenes with the Man in them more warm feeling with a reddish tint/filter and the scenes with the Woman in them cooler with a blueish tint/filter.
Here is my Animatic Storyboard from which I will be using in guiding me for my video.
The transitions are kind of hard to follow so I will describe them.
1. Man at desk scribbling thoughts and lyrics on paper. camera pulls out through the radio speaker... 2. Woman waking up and walking to the window. camera follows her action and gets to eye level. camera then pulls in through the window... 3. Neighborhood shot. camera tracks though the neighborhood back to the Man's house. 4. Man's living room. camera pulls in back through his window and pans on his face as he turns. the camera then cuts to a spot in front of the Man as he walks to a counter with a picture of the Woman and a letter from her. the camera pan's around so that we are back at Man's eye view. 5. Letter view. On the letter are the scenes of the Woman acting out the lyrics of the song. camera then pulls out and gives a back view of the Man reading the latter on a chair. 6. Puzzle scene. The back view then turns into an unfinished puzzle with the man holding a piece with him in it. the camera follows the close up view of the piece as it is flung across the room fitting onto another puzzle where the man is singing with a mic stand. 7. Studio area. The puzzle fades out into the real scene and the camera pulls and tracks around the Man singing into a back, slightly overhead view. camera the pulls into the mic holes and goes through into the next scene. 8. Woman running in the park. camera tracks from back view to side view to front view then to her other side view where she has an ipod strap on her arm. camera then pulls into the image on the ipod (which is the Man playing a piano to the song) 9. Piano playing. camera tracks around character reaching front view. the camera then follows the mans hands as he plays the piano to the song. the camera then pulls out through the TV into the Woman's living room. 10.Woman's living room. back view of woman lying on couch holding remote watching the Man playing piano on the TV. She then turns off the tv and walks through the kitchen into the dining room. camera tracks with her and stop in the kitchen focused on a radio there. In the radio is a tape labeled "The Mixed Tape". 11. Radio. The camera pulls to a close up view of the label on the tape. the scene then fades into another scene where the letters stay the same but are on a piece of paper on a desk with the song lyrics and the Man sitting in front of them. There is an overhead view as the man shuffles around the papers tryng to locate his tape. 12. Man's room. camera pulls out and pans as Man walks to another desk in the room. camera then pulls into a close up of his eye. 13. Man's Eye. camera is stuck on his eye as two scenes play out in it between his blinks. one scene is the woman reclining in a chair reading and the other is her brushing her teeth getting ready for bed. camera then pulls out and continues to pan with the Man. 14. Man. camera follows the mans hand and pulls in to a close up view of him placing the tape onto another surface. his hand then is taken off. 15. Tape. camera slowly pulls in to an extreme close up of the tape as the song ends and fades to black.
I have not posted any results up for my previous stages because of two factors. One, my experience in Maya is not what I wanted and I think I am getting too ambitious and I need much more practice before starting to do a full project with it. And two, I lost my paper with all of the dates and still haven't got another one. No fault but my own on that. But I have decided to not use Maya except for maybe some minor special effects that regular video might not be able to accomplish. So I am going to do the same project but in strictly video. I will edit the video in Final Cut, and possibly in After Effects. I have not been able to check out one of the schools video camera's because I wasn't aware of the time for checking them out and I have also waited until the last minute to check it out. So in my next post I will have photo stills on site of where I want to shoot my video. I will also describe what color choices will be chosen and why.
