At the start of the short film the protagonist “Jim” is stood watching fireworks from his window inside. I want to combine practical lighting effects and digital compositing for the shots in the short movie.
Using an RGB light outside the window will help cast the quick flashes of colour into the otherwise dark living room. In the testing phase I found a large frying pan sufficiently blocked out the light to create this effect.
There are two angles for these shots I want to use. The first is a static tripod shot offset towards the window. This will show the room is illuminated and cast a shadow from “Jim”
The second shot is going to be trickier to obtain as I will need to layer the following on top of each other for the effect.
- Standing in front of the window and having the light shone towards me to change the colour of the room and illuminate me.
- Rotoscope out the window and mask myself into the shot.
- Video footage of the night sky from as close to reality as possible.
- Add firework effects generated in AE.
