Revised schedule for Filming.

Latest schedule.

Initial schedule for Filming.

This may change in the next few days. but for now, this is my filming schedule.


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Lighting Video.

Thought this was quite useful.

Ten Lighting Setups from John Note on Vimeo.

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The Lights Are Coming.

The Lights Are Coming. from Jamie Kyle on Vimeo.

A short I made showing the relation between Visuals and a Soundtrack.


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Noir Sandwich.

Noir Sandwich from Jamie Kyle on Vimeo.

I had to compress this file so apologies for any poor quality. This is to show how a Film Noir effect can be applied to a mundane activity, such as making a sandwich, and make it more dramatic.

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Update Chat.

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Did you know him? Short

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Equipment Booked.

I have the XL-1 Camera booked for the 8th - 11th March, as well as tungsten lighting and Mikee says he's booked a sound boom mic for the 8th to the 10th which is great.

I also asked permission at the Beehive, need to call the manager, exciting stuff.


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The Chase.

This was the original improvised chase scene that I recorded with Leo for the short I was playing around with.




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Stereoscopic Vision Test Two.

Didn't turn out too well. I'll explain in a video in the next few posts.

Stereoscopic Double Test. from Jamie Kyle on Vimeo.

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Prototype frame for Stereoscopic Cameras.

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Good link.

My housemate Leo found this awesome link that uses the stereoscopic vision incredibly well.

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Stereoscopic Pre-Test 2.

3D Test.

I thought I'd give the 3D treatment a go. It doesn't really work (probably due to the fact that cameras are a bit too far apart) But it's just an interesting experimentation to try out.

3D Stereoscopic test. from Jamie Kyle on Vimeo.

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Unit 10.

Got my feedback today, as expected my main criticism was that I didn't have enough visual examples for a project based on moving image, which is fair. I was really annoyed at my mark though, I got a very low 2.2, which is bollocks!

I've done LOADS of work, a lot of theory and research and my storyboards took forever. I felt it was really harsh.

Luckily though, we have a re-hand-in in 2 weeks time, so I'm going to pump my portfolio with more moving image and videos, and make everything a bit more refined. I'm just a bit down because I haven't been slacking with this project, it always seems I get a mark that really doesn't reflect the effort I've put in.

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Stereoscopic Research.

After my daily routine of browsing Digg I came across a Stereoscopic link which proved to be incredibly helpful.

As you can see in the article, it suggests having a focus point to which the cameras are both looking at, rather than have them side by side, like I had, in my tests.

This makes a lot more sense, especially as I did have the cameras the correct distance apart from each other originally (the distance between human eyes). My next step is to do a test with the cameras focusing on one point. The test I previously did, would actually be perfect for 3D Stereoscopic, I want to try this out just for a bit of fun.

I'll hopefully do both these tests by the end of the week, so watch this space.

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Just to show some editing...

Click on the image and you can see that I did edit every 0.01 seconds of the footage. Dear God.


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Stereoscopic Vision Test One.

Stereoscopic Vision Test from Jamie Kyle on Vimeo.

Here is my first attempt, it's not at all bad for my first try, and I know which bits to tweek. The cameras are too far apart from each other, I need to bring them closer together a couple of cm's. But saying this, this would work well if I wanted to try out a 3D shot - which I may do. Also, one of the cameras are slightly off balance compared to the other, so it doesn't balance too well in the overall composition.
But for my first test, I'm pleased. Although, this footage is 22 seconds. It took me a good hour and a half to edit it. I'm not looking forward to editing that part for the final outcome!

I originally edited it at 0.15 (half a second) in between the parallel footage (flicking from one to the other), this proved to be too slow, so I edited it down to 0.05. Again, it was too slow, so I had to do the lowest time possible of 0.01 a shot (!!!). It took ages. Hopefully for the final thing it will be incredibly rewarding. I hope.

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Stereoscopic Pre-Test.

Okay, I lied, I did some more work.

I don't know why but I'm quite excited about testing stereoscopic vision, I really hope it works. But here's the pre-video to show what exactly I'm doing.

Presentation.

I had my presentation finally last Thursday and it went pretty well. I thought I would be more nervous but I remained quite composed and explained myself well. I really regret not having more visual examples to engage the audience more and let them visualize my project better. But despite this, I was surprised to get one feedback sheet (pictured above), I wasn't expecting to get anything so I was glad that at least one person understood what I was blabbing about and offer me some helpful advice. So, thank you very much, mysterious helpful person!



This week I'm taking things a bit easy, and rewarding myself with a brief break as Unit 9 and 10 are being marked (I deserve it, after all). So updates this week will be slow and spread out. Especially as the next steps are planning filming and gaining permission for filming. So that's all for now folks.

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Actor Test 3.

Another short clip. I want to get some footage of Keir on camera again, using my Digital SLR. You can see from the quality that it's not very good for moving image, but could still be useful for my stereoscopic dream scene.
I actually wanted the quality of the clip to be bad so I can mess around with the editing. I tried my best to get a great contrast, this is all without any addition lighting compared to the last 2 videos, so it's all natural. It may be a bit too white for my liking.

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