After creating some puppets to work with we decided to try out the green screen studio and see how they looked on film. We picked the green screen as well so we could edit the background since we weren't sure of what type of backgrounds we wanted to use. We set up the studio with lighting and set up the camera to do some simple shots.
Mark brought in a toy he altered for another project to do a another test with to see if we could end up using other types of puppets and effects in the long run. We attached rods with green screen tape on the ends and tried to do a walk cycle of the puppet. As well as recording clips of our puppets talking on camera and how just by simple camera tricks you can hide the performers (us).
It let us learn about how to become in sync with each other and working together especially working with puppets and doing a walk cycle with one. It's all about timing and communication through body language which takes a bit of getting use to since were putting it through a non living object. We will look into this further with some research and of course practice with our puppets.
We edited the footage in final cut pro and adobe after effects to get rid of the green screen and tried out some simple and silly effects.
Felt this simple film test worked out quite successfully and it gave us a good hands on approach to how long filming and editing will take us. This one didn't really take that long at all and were considering doing a few short skits with ours puppets with audio and possibly better backgrounds.
We will develop this process further and look into some more resources and I'll start to make a better looking puppet.
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