paths in photoshop

This lesson was very important. Mr andrews took us through how to cut out an image with a paper cutout affect in photoshop. First we went down to the green screen to take some test shots to work with.  We then transferred them from is top into phtoshop and learnt the path tool. Once you create one path by dragging it around the person roughly (to create that cut out paper look.) you fill it with white and then delete the layer on top of the person so you end up with the person and whtie outline. From there you just have to copy the whole path and edit it to suit the next body shape so its a quicker process. i had a go of this process and i got it. so next lesson we will start to take the actual photos on the green screen and begin this new path process in photoshop!

Green Screen Lesson

This lesson Mr Andrews took us down to show us the Green Screen. Its really big! its like a big sheet of green paper that drops down so we can shoot in front of. The green is really easy to recognized difference from so when we are cutting me out of it in Photoshop its really easy.  We just did some test shots of walking. At first we were thinking that i couldnt move distance when i walked so i was just kind of marching on the spot. We then realised that it didnt matter if i moved a bit because we were cutting the background out anyway. I then just started to move slowly and walk. At this point jazmin was just taking random shots every say half a second. Mr Andrews then came down and reminded us we needed one shot for every frame we took with the back drop. We agreed and now we know how to do it. The lesson was then over so we couldnt do anymore but next lesson we will begin shooting. I will upload a video shortly of out walking attempts.

This lesson Mr Andrews showed us how to put all the aspects of the film together, music and video in iMovie. This was really helpful so when we come to do this we know exactly what to do! For the rest of the lesson we planned how we were going to start using the green screen lesson as we have finished our work on the diorama.

lesson 12

Today we had heaps of problems and didnt do much. First we were making the edge of the earth to slowly come in. We did the good side on the wrong side so we had to start again and make it on the other side. We then realised that to slowly make it come into the set we needed a hole through the box to get it on from the back. Mr Andrews had to use a knife to cut out a large rectangler hole just to fit the edge in. Once we started we could see the tape we used so we covered it up with more paper. This just made it look worse. We took a few shots and then realised that it looked really bad. we decided to scrap it but i will upload it so you can see.

This lesson we got all the cloud part done !! all 11 seconds of it. We worked really hard. It was really fustrating because they kept falling off but then we just put more blue tack and stuck them on. We all worked really well together, i was moving the clouds, mady was taking the photos and making sure the clouds lined up. Jazmin was away that lesson. This is a video of what we got done!

Monday lesson

This lesson we got through alot. First we printed out a house on a hill and cut it out. We just made it a simple outline with a few details like windows. We then placed it on the diarama. The motion that we are aiming for is for the hill to rise from the ground with the house on top. It was folded so only the tip of the house was showing and 3 shots were taking. We then folded it again so a bit more was showing. And took photos and so on until the whole picture was shown. An issue we came across was the rest of the house that hadn't been revealed yet was showing down the bottom. To camouflage this we put a plain white piece of paper over it. This was the color of the floor. We then moved on and started the clouds moving. This is to go in the background of the photoshop work. We make them move to the left to make it look like I am walking to the right but really I will be still. Moving every single cloud and then taking photos is very time consuming and it was particurly hard because we were under the desk filming as we wanted the darker light. We had done about 4 seconds of clouds and all of a sudden the program quit unexpectedly. We lost all of the cloud part we just started. This was a real set back. But the bell rang and we had to leave there was nothing we could do.

SPARKLES

This part were the sparkles appear is the end result. This took me one lesson to add all the sparkles and effects using photoshop. Once i got the hang of it it was quite quick to do!