Green Screen Composition

SEM03. B E T A. PROJECT#02
P R O J E C T :: Green Screen Composition

This sem was another short semester. Therefore, we only have to do 2 assignments and this was our final assignment for our final semester in BETA year. This time, we were required to shot a clip on the green screen and add animation elements in it.

The concept idea for this assignment was a combination of a fairy tale character, Little Red Riding Hood and Super Mario game land. I have always loved fairy theme but I loved it more if I can add a little twist to it. 

Thus, meet my main character of this assignment, an all grown up Red Riding Hood warrior who kills HIS enemy (the evil short mushroom) with his silver gun. Both talents (Mr. Red and Mr. Big Bad Wolf) are my course mates. We worked for each other's assignment. He was my talent, and I was his.

Credits to my fellow talents for making this assignment a success :

Super *Rotkapchen (Red Riding Hood in German) - Mr. Muhsin (Moose)

The Big Bad Wolf - Mr. Faiz  

This semester has given me a whole new valuable experiences working on green screen set, and also working with AE. I am definitely looking forward for another assignment like this.

Rotoscoping

SEM03. B E T A. PROJECT#01
P R O J E C T :: Rotoscoping

This was the first assignment we had to do on our first class of 3rd sem of BETA year. We were given a short clip of a guy walking, entering the scene from left, walking in front of a wooden ladder and stops in the middle momentarily, before exiting the scene on the right. It was a green screen shot taken by our very own lecturer.

Our task was to clean the shot, edit the background with a still image using AE. Sounded easy enough? Haha! Holy goose it wasn't! 
This assignment turns out to be one of the most patience-nerves wrecking-challenging ever! Why? Below are the list of all the 'whys' :

  i. The talent (or the guy) in the shot, he was wearing a brown colored shirt.

  ii. The guy's skin was almost as brown as his shirt.

  iii. The wooden ladder that was in the shot, was made from wood. (brown)

  iv. The clip of the shot that we had to work with was compressed and low quality.

Even though we were using AE CS4 where it should help in cleaning green screen shot as easily as editing it, but in this case, we had no other choice than to rotoscoped it frame by frame. I guess that was the whole point of this assignment; to rotoscope aside from learning to control one's patience that is! :D

Owh ya. My pc completely broke down right after this semester. Therefore, I could not salvage whatever works in the hardisks; including the original green screen shot. But, the good side of this unfortunate event was, I got myself a brand new pc and a flat screen complete with magic angle! So thanks god and thanks daddy!