This week has been a further tweak from last week’s preview video. This week I have reset some of the camera positions, changed the movement of the character movement, changed the speed of the camera movement etc. It made the shots more fluid.
The process
- I changed the character movements in Maya and set keyframes at different points in the timeline.
- When I adjust the action before, I have to turn on the controller that shows the character, and then turn it off after I have adjusted it so that the controller is not shown when the video is exported.
- The camera position is then changed according to the set character movements.
- Finally export the video via preview，Right click on the timeline to export the preview video.The inside of the viewfinder is the final export, I was more concerned with the composition inside the viewfinder
There are a few things that could be improved in this week’s video and I have ranked them below.
- 1. This series of shots is about a young girl who finds a broken lantern and starts to chase it.
- The first shot shows the girl with a worried expression, the third shot shows the girl chasing the lantern as fast as she can. The third shot shows the girl chasing the lantern. The middle shot of the girl chasing the lantern has been removed to make the plot more concise and clear.This way the action of the first shot can be linked more coherently to the third action, where the girl is surprised and then immediately runs.
- 2.The girl follows the lantern into the hole, this shot lingers for an extra two seconds.
- 3.The girl walks straight into the cave and instead the girl first peeks out from the right side of the camera, looks around carefully and then walks towards the camera and stands in place looking around.
- 4.Zoom in on this shot and change it to a close up.
- 5.Change from flat to elevated view
- 6.This set of shots shows the monster picking up the lantern and turning around ready to place it on the workbench for repair.This shot has been removed here and replaced with a close up of the monster above the waist and then the monster turning around
- 7.Change the position of the two main characters to be closer to the centre of the picture overall. And turn the front of the characters slightly towards the viewer. Move the girl slightly to the left to pull the two protagonists apart.