Introduction

Unit Title: Post Production and Visual Effects

Submission Date: Friday 25th March 2011

This unit provides students with basic skills in the area of post production operations and gives them an understanding of post production technology, as well as a critical appreciation of the craft of editing.

Building on their knowledge of filmic language and narrative developed in the first level of the course, students learn about the fundamentals of screen continuity and timing. Students will be introduced to editing software, basic editing, compositing, special effects and audio functions.


Project Brief
The structure of this brief will be in three main sections.

Film production and editing techniques
3D compositing techniques
Formatting requirements of Broadcast output

Through a series of lectures and workshops you will be introduced to the theoretical and practical interrelation of film production, editing, post production and visual effects;

In the first few weeks you will be encouraged to form groups and assemble from live action footage a short piece designed to be integrated with 3D elements. You will be introduced to essential digital effects techniques and group working.
You are also required to produce an individual piece of work incorporating live action and 3d animation (to be agreed individually with your tutor).

In the middle section of the unit you will be introduced to the skills and techniques necessary to successfully integrate 3D content.

The last few weeks of the project will concentrate on developing your editing techniques as well as utilizing the effects available to you on your compositing software. You will also be introduced to industry workflow practices such as filing conventions and formatting requirements for broadcast content.

Taken from the brief we were given with this assignment. In this assignment we need to make small team and work on a piece of animation that uses green screening / motion tracking and 3D models. Will we also need to draft the animation, in terms of story flow and direction.

In this project I will most likely use Photoshop, Maya, Affect Effects and PDtacker. I will be using this blog to upload research material and write up any other needed pieces of work.