To draw this storyboard, I listened to the song that would play during the scene, Roundtable Rival by Lindsey Stirling, and pictured how the shots could look in my head. I had the basic outline of what the actions where going to be already written in the script. This were then written under the panels.
Since I wanted Amber to appear as a ghost as some points during the piece, I had to work out a way of making a person transparent even if other people are in the scene. But first I started by simply finding out how to make someone see through.
I thought the easiest way to do this was overlap two pieces of video that have the same background.
Using my webcam I took a video that lasted roughly thirty seconds, taking a section where I was not on screen and putting that on the video timeline first, then I simply put the second part over the video as a cutaway, mainly because it had an option where you can adjust the Opacity of the cutaway.
This meant I could make it see through but also keep the same background.
Then I tried the same thing with two people in the same shot, but since I didn't have another person to help me I used a stuffed toy that I perched on the back of my chair.
Because the chair and toy where in the same position the desired effect was achieved and they stayed solid but I turned ghostly.
I don't know how this would turn out when I involve another person though.
In the last few days I came with a idea for a scene that would need to be a short recorded piece and then have some special effects added to it.
I thought that either Eric or Duncan would have a dream sequence where they see Amber get engulfed by flame but need to find a way of adding fire effects to video.
First I searched for how to do this on iMovie and found the video New iMovie Action Effects on Youtube which can be found if you follow the link below.
This video taught me that would need to find pre-keyed effects to add them to a video without any background. So I searched for Pre-keyed fire effects on Youtube and found a video i thought would work. It did not as the fire had a black box around it.
So I looked online so a website that had pre keyed fire effects i could download for free and found the website footagecrate.com. After looking on the site for several minutes I found what I was looking for. I downloaded one file and tried putting it in a small clip I had imported before.
The final result is below.
Or if the video doesn't work click the link below.
Through doing this short video I realised that I could easily add the effects I wanted, but would need to work out where there would be on the screen and how the actors should react to them when they happen.
An idea I have had to incorporate media into this piece during a scene where Amber and Duncan are having an argument this would be shown on screen, showing both people in a split screen so the audience can see both the person talking and reacting during the argument.
I made a quick example of the idea i had using short clips of me clapping my hand and snapping my fingers the video can be found below or if that doesn't work you can watch it by clicking on the link below.
The video will be muted and have the song 'Roundtable Rival' by Lindsey Stirling playing during the argument. I chose this song because the music makes it sound like a group of people are having a battle of some sort.
I also had the idea of having my character reacting to what was being said in the argument in another separate image in the video. The vague idea for this set up can be seen in the image below.
Of course the actual video will have three different people in it not just me.
