AS Media Waking Up Scene Experimentation Practical

AS Media Waking Up Scene Experimentation Practical

Brief

For our film opening we are planning to include a close up focus pull and a time lapse. I wanted to test these so we are prepared for filming a successful piece.

Production

For the change in focus scene I was unable to change the focus with the camera as it was filmed on my less advanced portable Nikon camera. On the real filming day we will use a more advanced Canon camera.

With this camera, the scene I filmed in the above video should look similar to the one below that I filmed with said Canon camera. This was done with the manual focus setting and twisting the lens. There wasn't a clear change in focus and you had to get extremely close to the hand, but I thought it was useful and if we were on a stable tripod hopefully it would look more professional. Below is the product:

Another way to create this change in focus is by using editing software like "Adobe After Effects".

Post-production

With the above video, I use an editing software to speed up the video like below:

Then I cut up the video into small sections and deleting a few between each one to create an irregular video similar to a time lapse. This is seen below:

Personal Comments

I felt overall the sped up version was the best as it still had the effect we wanted without the confusing irregularities of the time lapse. And although the focus pull was a little shaky I think as a group and 'Warp Stabilizer' we will be able to create a successful opening match on action scene.