Lauri Hakala

Thank you guys! This really was very test like short, I admit it all :D But next time will concentrate on story.

I built it. The p+s techniks commercial version of that skater dolly is way too expensive, about 6000 US.

Thanks so much! a) We had a DIY-crane which I have built a year ago. I think you can get a quite nice view of it from those making of pics I posted earlier. b ) All those tracking shots were made with my DIY- skater dolly, nice tool! You can see it also from those pics. Here's another link for the skater: (no camera mount yet) http://www.students.tut.fi/~hakala52/skater/ So in conclusion I didn't use a "normal" dolly at all. c) The compositing and the color grading were done in After Effects. Here's an example: 1) RAW footage. 2) Here I have brought the ship from 3dsmax as a TGA-sequence in to the After Effects and have dragged it over the RAW-footage. It isn't looking good at all :D 3) I had to draw a mask because I wanted the ship to come from behind the rock. And it was also done because I wanted to replace the sky with a cloudless one. Only little of rotoscoping when his head goes over the rock line. 4) Here I have placed the earlier shot sky background -layer behind the main layer and it sits there quite nicely. 5) Now the ship is behind the rock, but it doesn't look too real. 6) Here I have added some Channel noise, Light wrap (from the sky layer), Edge composite and glow. Only the CC is missing. 7) The CC'd final composite. Hope this helps.

Thanks, I shot in 4:3 letterboxed mode and just cropped those black bars out from that flash presentation. I used the Macromedia Flash 8 Video Encoder and the video codec was On2 VP6, Audio MP3 128kbs. This was the first time I used that kind of codec but it held the quality quite well. Compression was also fast with that Flash 8 video encoder. I also owned the panasonic anamorphic adapter but it is quite pain in the ass to use and it eats up the little dof-possibilities that are left in these 1/3" cameras. I have now sold it and I'll soon buy a 35mm adapter. James Steven Beverly, we are definitely going to shoot a new movie with these same themes, maybe not feature length, but at least ten minutes :D Frank Barrera, thanks for that book tip, I'll read that for sure. ps. We are doing a website for these projects, and it will open in a few weeks on http://www.badlaa.com

Hey sorry guys that I haven't been answering to your questions. Thanks so much for the compliments and James I think your suggestion to the ending is much better than it was now. This was kind of a test short for the post nuclear world, how does it work, are people interested in seeing more of this kind of shorts? Now I am planning a bit longer short with the same theme but it takes place in winter and we really try to bite firmly on story. Jesús and others, here's some making of: http://www.students.tut.fi/~hakala52/mm2/mm2.htm and http://www.tpu.fi/~k4lhakal/making/ We really used only large sheets of styrofoam as reflectors and I tried to make some detail on the actors face with putting some junk between the sun and the actor. Also we shot only during the few magical hours in the evening when the sun light isn't so hard and one can exposure both the sky and the grounds at the same time.

I just recently finished this little short about future watchmans ordinary routines. So please have fun and let me know what you think. http://www.tpu.fi/~k4lhakal/Vartiovuoro/Vartiovuoro.html ps. Don't mind the finnish opening tittle and ending credits, there's no dialogue at all :unsure: