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hospadam
06-23-2007, 12:43 AM
I'm working on a simple project for work, and just can't find any inspiration... so I'm turning for you all for a few ideas.

Basically, we're making a short looping movie, that will feature donors to our project. This movie will loop on a "donor's wall" of sorts.

Here's what it must feature:

We're going to take several still pictures (in different poses), or green screen them from the chest up. We want to feature these people, to give them credit for their donations.

The other goal of this project is speed. We don't have a lot of time, and as new donors want to be added to the movie, we need to be able to do it very quickly (one-two days).

Any ideas would be just great. I haven't come up with anything that I've been happy with.

Thanks in advance!
trancor
06-23-2007, 01:04 AM
Don't know what type of concrete help you'd be able to get from anyone on the cgtalk area.


I would simply say, going with still photos makes it a little hard because then it looks like a slide show, slide shows are boring and over played. Try to do what you can with exploring your options outside of photo after photo after photo.


One suggestion I'd have is snaz up the movie with transitions besides the standard fade in fade out/wipes that have been seen everywhere. Play around with using fractal noise as a mask and start off with it black (low brightness high contrast stuff) and animate the fractal noise with the elovlution and off set of the turbulance and bring it to white ( high brightness a little lower contrast) As well as adding a levels filter so you can make sure it's black in the begining and white at the end. This will make for a nice organic looking transition.

Besides this, always have the photos moving, don't have them just pop up and stay there. By this day and age is seems like everyone has at least a minimum of a 6 megapixle camera, that gives ALOT of room to play with each photo, especialy when the video is probably 720 by 480. Zoom in, zoom out, pan around the photo, as long as it isn't still and boring, it will be a nice little video for your wall'o'donor.

Good luck!
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