I chose to produce a collaborative project with yafang zheng for this project, which is a compositing project about live action with special effects. We started a bit late and had some sad events like the model not being able to make the contract, which forced us to make new plans to find new actors (we tried to shoot the main character by ourselves, but unfortunately we didn’t get a very good result).
Then during this period we tried several different cameras, a gimbal plus Canon, a dji pocket and a black magic (the black magic had a very good texture, but we gave it up because it consumed too much power to plug it in on the first try, and we had to shoot a lot of the scenes outside), and we shot a total of three live-action shoots as well as three scenes with a new cast.
In total we shot three live-action shoots and one green-screen shoot, but because we weren’t familiar with the equipment yet, it caused a lot of shaking even with the gimbal, and the camera’s focus on moving objects wasn’t very good. As a result, our video footage was not very stable in terms of aesthetics and tracking.
There are some problems in the preparation process of this project, we will learn from the lessons and be more experienced in arranging the project plan in the future projects.