Animation Personal Project Post

This work is from a personal project where I worked with lighting in Maya.   In this project I had to create 6 different scenarios and create the lighting for it.  I started with thinking about what the scenarios would look like, then went into Maya and chose the type of light that I wanted to use then I had to place it in the correct place.  During the process I learned how to use the spotlight, directional light, and ambient light in each way.  During the project I would Have done my candle light differently because I think the light was too spread out.  I would have done my own scenario, Mars the same because I thought it was very unique.  Overall, I can use the skills from this project later by knowing how to use lighting better.

High School Movie Trailer

In these past few weeks in e-com we have been working on recreating a trailer from a movie.  The movie we chose was Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  We had a lot of pre production work to do, starting from making the storyboards for every shot.  Next, we had to write the script from the trailer.  After that we had to choose the locations that we wanted to shoot and then choose the costumes that we wanted to use for each character.

Finally, it was time to shoot the trailer.  We spent a full day shooting the trailer outside of school and then 2 days shooting the trailer at school. While we were shooting the video we had to make sure that each shot was similar to the shot on the real trailer.

Once we were done filming we had to take the footage from the SD card and import it onto Adobe Premiere.  Unfortunately, I was unable to edit the video and this was a poor example of project management.

If I was to do anything different about this project, I would have tried to manage my time a little better than the way I did this project.  I did like the way our group chose our cast list and we storyboarded very well as a group.