Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Where's Waldo Details

We started principal photography this weekend, shooting a carnival scene and a cemetery scene. We still have three more locations to shoot, but a majority of the effects work occurs in the already shot cemetery scene, which is where a sort of climactic final showdown occurs.

My amazing friend who came and took production stills for me also set up this website:
http://www.whereswaldofilm.com/

He will probably take care of lots of the still graphic design work (posters, dvd covers, etc) that I was planning on doing, but no worries, there are still tons of visual effects waiting to be done.

From what has been shot already, here's a breakdown of what needs to happen:

- five different gunshots, including muzzle flash, ambient lighting, and gun slide action
- close up of face as gashes open in it, possibly other "soul destroying" effects
- adding blood splatter to two seperate shovel hits to the face (50% one of these is completed already)
- masking off parts of shots so that Waldo can hide behind impossibly narrow trees (100% complete)
- tons of tracking/dolly shot stabilization

and also:
- unreasonable amounts of color correction (I won't do this until the picture is locked, probably)
- animated intro/title sequence/credits
- really sweet action trailer

It's hard to schedule everything precisely because it all depends on how the shoot goes and when we shoot and when editing happens, but I'm basically going to work on them as I get them.

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