I have now filmed the green screen part for my music video, and let me tell you that I am regretting it now! Because I didn't get to use the green screen for my other filming it looks a bit silly just being against the fake gothic background I drew in Adobe Illustrator and then cutting to my characters in a nice green luscious garden setting, next to a river. I might have to go back there and film 4 minutes of a background plate to make it look like I was filming my parts there. Nothing has really gone to plan with this project, so been thinking while running a lot! Good experience, I suppose, but I would have liked something (or anything!) to go right during this final assessment. Having a nice finished product is lower on my list than actually finishing the project.
Have lots of work in Apple Motion lined up for me on Tuesday- so hopefully a rather large Zarraffa's coffee and a lot of self discipline will get me through. I have to learn how to chroma key in Motion, too. So that should be interesting. Final Cut Express does a decent job of keying surprisingly, but when I start to move and shadows come in and out of nowhere it leaves a little bit to be desired. Fantastic for when I'm not moving about, however! And I would recommend people get Final Cut Express and a Mac over Sony Vegas for PC for this reason alone. If Apple read my blog- Yes, I would love a copy of Final Cut Studio's latest incarnation. And perhaps a nice shiny Mac Pro. Not too much to ask, is it?! Thanks in advance.
At any rate, my song is 100% finished and I even entered it in the Q Song competition yesterday just minutes before the deadline! I also put Making Things Worse in the competition, too. Only after I spent 6 hours tweaking it to make the mandolin sound more in time since I no longer have a mandolin to play and couldn't record it again. Hopefully they will not notice all the timestretching I did to it...
Wish me luck for 10 hours of chroma keying on Tuesday. Or maybe just pop in with a nice steaming hot short latte for me. Cheers.
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