Final Project

So I am almost 3 weeks into working on my graduate project in Digital Design at Vancouver Film School. I say three weeks but really this has been in the works since the beginning of term four ( beginning of march ) when we were asked to decide on what we wanted to tackle as our graduate project. It took me a very long time to arrive at my idea, I was extremely stressed out as one by one everyone chose their final project and I could not come up with mine. Finally it came to me in the nick of time and I have been hard working on pre-production and production ever since. 


For my final project I am creating a interactive movie trailer for the Ipad and Web that allows the viewer to switch between four different perspectives as they follow two characters who have been taken by the government for testing of a new prescription drug. Each character experiences the same situations differently and this gives a unique perspective and view to each of the four perspective you are watching. This idea on its own was extremely complicated to complete successfully and involved a TON of time put into just planning out exactly how to do each shot and time it so that each view is playing simultaneously in each view. I also had to build my own helmet rig with the help of Todd Owens and Meg Westlund (thanks guys!) in order to have a more realistic POV shots for the two characters perspectives. This added more complexity to the shoot as my actors now had to be camera operators and vise versa. All in all so far it has been a blast and I have been giving my brain a work out with all the new things I am learning. Because I filmed almost half of the film on green screen I will be learning how to track in 3D and composite my live action into 3D CGI environments. On top of all this I am trying to a few practical effects like ink drops and ink bleeds and I did I mention I still have a underwater shoot sometime in the next few weeks? 


As far as the piece itself it is called XI or Eleven and was carefully constructed and inspired by the original 10 question Rorschach test and that is all I will say..


As far as my shoot days so far I have had two - the first was disastrous - sound didn't work, we blew one fuse ( i have the old fuses in my apartment there is no breaker to flip so I am still living in the dark. Then we blew a second fuse. Then we blew a third one and none of the lights could be used anymore. We ran behind by 3 hours and didn't finish till 230 - which was interesting based on the fact that I had a 830 call time the next morning!


Here is some set photos

 The above shot was a dream come true