I’m kinda disappointed in myself. I got the raw footage from Edmund, and lots of it were unusable. He had so kindly pointed out a lot of eye-level errors that I made (nothing could be done to fix that!!!!!!) and a lot of noisy footage (especially on the last day of shoot, lighting goes haywire)
I mean, if pictures are going to look like this:
I might as well use a normal consumer camera with 1 CCD to shoot this damn thing.
You know things are not looking too good either when it’s harder to key out the green screen with your actor in front of it, than it is to key out your crew accidentally videoed in front of it.
It took me 2 clicks to key out Wan when he was goofing off in front of the green screen.
As for Sarah, it took me 17 clicks to key out the green screen, plus I had to use a spill suppressor (to non filmies… it means a lot of work) on the footage to do it.
Even more demoralizing was that someone was singing Rihanna’s Unfaithful in Wan’s goof-off scene (the lyrics: I don’t wanna do this anymore!). 
Granted, we were all very tired on the last day of shoot. I myself haven’t had 4 days of sleep by then, but that is not a reason not to light a screen well. Geez. I’m kinda disappointed in myself.
But looking on the bright side, I did find some really nice and usable shots (despite Edmund saying otherwise). After some edits of course. :D. The wonders of AfterEffects. (I even fixed the footage in the first picture - brighter, less grainier… whatever)
Speaking of AfterEffects, AE CS3 must have the most user friendly error messages I’ve seen:
It tells you in your face that it had crashed! How more friendly and honest can it get?
Oh… to end this on an upbeat mood (mainly because I’ve been able to use some AE Magic to clean up a lot of footage)… lemme post 2 pictures.
Who said zombies had to be ugly?
Argh. There are then other stuff that cannot be fixed. Like eye-levels (I went for too many odd angle shots), and framing of the shots. Those can’t really be salvaged. Sigh. Still lots to learn.
Coming up next: Surprising guest star!
Cool?
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OMG, I SEE MALAYNEUM AS THE GUEST STAR! REMPIT-ING THE ZOMBIES DOWN! MWAHAHAHA!
god damn, i look fat. that shirt sucks.
Aoshi: Huh whut?
Wan: Ever noticed why I keep wearing black/dark colors? Coz black’s a slimming color
I was just saying that your surprise guest could be malayneum.
That’s what you get for not caring about the camera direction enough. *sticks out tongue*
Aoshi: Gosh! NO!!!
Cfgt: Try that I have a Director of Photography/Cinematographer who’s supposed to appear but FFK me.
I would blame you anyway now wouldn’t I.
Hey there. Finally got around to posting a comment here. =D
Just wondering, what did you shoot on?
And so sorry for not being able to take part in this project, had exams and then was busy trying to put together contents for uni applications plus babysitting siblings for a week after that (parents were away). sheesh. looking forward to see the completed work though! =)
cfgt: Er ya…
Nigel: Not you. After you told me you couldn’t make it, I got another guy… he said okay, but on the day of shoot entah hilang mana
Wah!!! I look damn scary!!!
Ya… you ARE scary!
(Don’t merajuk ya)… coming this weekend?