NewSpring Ghost sighting
- At November 3, 2009
- By ken
- In video
No doubt you’ve probably all seen or heard about our recent ghost sighting, but in case you missed it:
For the fun technical debrief. The footage is really from our security cameras. The export feature doesn’t play well with Macs so we ended up literally shooting the computer monitor with a camera (thanks to Will and Justin for running the footage down). This process also added some of the hazy brownish glare.
I added in the crosshairs, REC button, and timecode directly in After Effect. None of those are in the original footage. Why did I include the timecode? It’s there so when I sat in the service I would know when he jumped out (it’s 38:22 in case you wondered).
For the “ghoul,” I started with still image. After some Photoshop extraction and a bit of color grading to get him to fit into the scene it hit me… if he’s jumping in front of the camera he should be blurry. So add in a bit of Gaussian Blur.
My favorite part. I used the mesh warp tool to distort his mouth just a bit, to make him react to the scream.
For audio there’s a slight room noise I pulled from a stock collection just to make you think you hear something.
In the end I think it was pretty effective and got the proper reaction. What did you think? Did you jump.
Like a Magic 8 ball for designers
- At November 3, 2009
- By ken
- In design
What a cool idea. Stuck on something in your design? Not sure where to go? Head over here for some advice. Push refresh on your browser for a different opinion.
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Don’t Get Married Until…
- At November 2, 2009
- By ken
- In creativity / culture / design / entertainment / music / video
This weekend marked the beginning of a new series, Don’t Get Married Until… For the visual package and opener Perry’s sole request was that it should an element of hip-hop. Listening to the 90s station the other day I heard some Heavy D and I instantly knew it was the right choice. The goal in this piece is to set up the series with “if you’re ______, then you’re not ready to get married.” Here’s the resulting opener.
Tomorrow I’ll post of the preproduction details (and a special preliminary video), sketches, and talk a little about the process.
