Meeting on the 08/12/2004
Present to the meeting
Art Departement - Damon O'Connell
VFX - Christian Hogue
Production - La
State Registry
To Optimize the shooting cost of the “State Registry” sequence:
Whole scene sequence should be boarded from initial wide down to closeups.
Initial shots could be very wireframe 3d info graphic and only change to possible actual set in the close ups for the l/a elements.
Then we can determine costs for blue screen versus "augumented reality" approaches.
Lasers should be cgi.
Paper could be colored or actual pages form magazine or could be just color coded blank paper for the augmented realy info graphics to track to.. ie simple physical cues for the real information.
We will then be able to see if it is cost effective to do full CGI in post production.
…Or the alternative is to shoot it in live action with probs etc.
The art department will provide a concept art brief.
Bush
Please click on the links to see eventual idea and how to avoid shooting live action sequences in the bush fire.
This is a digital photomontage based matte painting projected onto a simple 3d shape to all low some limited 3d camera movement.
please click on attached movies from France 3 TV Ident and Roni Size video.
http://www.buf.com/?class=comm&year=2004
and then scroll down to FRANCE 3
http://www.streamload.com/lostinspace_vault/EL/EU8XR4DYNY/roni-extract.mov
Smoke and dust will be added in post production afterward depending on the digital matte/monatgist skills they may do this all or this may be handled by a team that takes the digital matte and does the 3d.
The nice thing is the smoke and dust can be shot for real and there fore be more convincing.
Live action of a burning tree will be then composited in post
Blake Workspace
Full 3D, with the live action shots in the studio for the drama
Blue screen Blake. carefully storyboarded for camera angles etc but allowing enough creative scope regarding the actual look and feel of the info/interface-gfx for the motion graphics people to be incentivised creatively on the project.
Possible visual cues coming into The Void space from her bedroom.
Art Department brief needed.
Blake’s room
Art departmenet brief to be given to production design.
No post production involvment, apart from screen contents which could be live on set or comped in post depending on who does them what they relate to (the void) and when they can be ready.
Classroom
Only the area immediately behind the teacher needs to be blue screen the rest of the wall can be simply corner pinned.
The film seen by the pupils on their laptops will be filmed before entering post production. We will use blue screen on laptop screen and then composit those in post.
Its best if the screens are fed a blue signal to capture screen reflections accurately.
Best if all screens are lcd's then no camera/crt syncing is required even better if its shot so we don’t see screen contents apart from a Blade over shoulder shot.
DENR screen
Most cost effective approach would involve a single large screen much like the teachers wall screen with mutilple feeds in picture windows etc. This would remove the need for multiple live feeds on set and for tracking of multiple individual monitors in post.
Blue screen and compositing in post production.
Actual interface to be determined by gfx supplier (working with art and director) to incentivise them creatively.
Eco activist
Art department will provide concept art brief to production design.
Nanobat POV should match the actual motion of the nanobat and see the set so this can be comped in the nano-monitor screen in post or fed live on set. Perhaps thru some realtime VJ codec to distort treat it.
CD
Damon will provide some test of CD but it will be fully done in post production.
The VFX team would suggest CD is done by the motiongraphics people who have an animation sensibility as he needs to tie into the interface design well, especially The Void.
Refer to MTV "cut out" creature,3d abstraction of this perhaps.
Nanobat
The Art department will provide a FULL description of the look and feel of the Nanobat to the model maker and post house. The Art department will not produce sketchs or drafts.
Files (State registry)
Camera/RIG/PDA Full description needed from Art Dept for Production design team.
Thank you
La