05/23/13

Today was really great– I finished up filming with the band (with some help from Isaac) and am now going through the footage and have some really really great stuff that I hadn't seen before. Now I am very tediously putting it all into a timeline to match up with the song so that, once finished, I can simply cut from layer to layer. I have way more footage than I thought I did because Isaac and Santi used the dslr (which also doesnt look too grainy after all) and any space that is lacking (the middle is a little light) I can supplement with the animation.
     Last night I did a test with some footage I had shot of the band, putting them in 3d space and with a camera revolving around to see them (like when all the characters are smoking in That 70's Show) and with some particles. Hannah said it looked really good but I still want to play around with it a lot more. Also today I spent around 3 hours figuring out how to steady a shaky shot, which I now might not even use: frustrating.

I have no idea why these are squeezed

When I scrubbed though the footage I started to freak out because artifacts were appearing everywhere. By artifacts I mean glitches other things you dont want there (look at her face)

But luckily they were only there because the large files take longer to load