LAUAN503 - Weekly 10

 Tale Telling

During Saturday last week and Monday this week I have finished off effects on the walls (Thanks Damian for introducing me to the technique of how to do this) and made the burger and posters.

Foam for the sandwich

Finished sandwich made out of foam, plasticine, hot glue gun and acrylic paints. Napkin made out of tissue paper with wire armature. 

Painting the posters. 

Dry brush technique with acrylic paint and streaks with wash paint.

I feel extremely stressed out as we are already super behind and the 2nd remake of the puppet that we tested against the set did not have enough motion in it because of the bulkiness of silicone.

Testing spotlight

However, finally I could test some spot lighting on the set with the puppet. What made me realise that we will need couple of filler lights and really good position of the lights overall to avoid unwanted shadows because of the scale lights vs. set.

Harsh shadows and over-exposed parts on the puppet - one light

Bad shadow on the piano keys and shadow casted by the puppet - one light

However, Zhama was very swift and remade the puppet in plasticine in only one day. I mean well done! :)

That meant I could finally set up the camera and lights on Thursday and we could start shooting the first scene on the same day.

The issues that we faced during the set up were mainly the position of the table so that we could access the set from all required angles and distances with our camera. We moved around every piece of equipment away from its original place before we found the perfect layout. Second issue was that the cable that connected the live view from the camera had to reach the PC. So we ended up moving the table with the PC to suit the position of the camera.

Also some of the equipment did not worked as I hoped. We ended up lending extra light and 2 light stands to provide enough filler lights. Also, the camera that we were using had poor contact with the lens and crushed us several times in the middle and at the beginning of shooting a scene. We managed to get a new lens which was also a zoom lens - that made some scenes easier to shoot for sure. 

Testing different camera angles and the lights.

With the main studio light on.

The final set up of the lights was like a tight spiderweb. Too tight to fall if tripped over but hard to move or adjust. since we had at least 3 lights and a camera tripod packed in such a small space at the same time. 

Me setting up the lights

Set, camera, lights, animator, story boards on the wall for reference :)

Set up of the lights and detachable wall taken off to allow for the first scene and animator's access to the puppet.