Weekly Journal - Week 13 - 11th May

This week I looked at bringing the footage of myself in to our 3D environment and seeing how well this would work/look for the final piece. To do this I again used the program Adobe After Effects which allowed me to remove the bluescreen from the original footage, which I had done the previous weeks. After I had brought both the pieces of footage in I then had to use colour correction and the contrast effects so the two clips looked as if they had a same lighting. I then had to match both the views from the 3D camera and the camera we filmed the footage with so that it looked as if the real life character was stood in the 3D Subway.

After reviewing this footage although I was happy with how it looked (the fact it did look like I matched up with the 3D floor) it still appeared that I was just placed there. I then had a discussion with the rest of the group in what should be done to improve this, we decided a shadow was needed. Therefore I went back to After Effects and created a shadow by duplicating the layer and then adding a basic 3D effect to it which allowed me to tilt and rotate the footage in the 3rd dimension which allowed meto have the shadow. The problem I have with this is that even when the shadow is being tracked with the original footage it won't always match up with both feet, so sometimes one foot will match up when the other doesn't as it's not a real shadow.