week 5 (term 3)

This week i started to think about the panned shot of the jungle and the shot where the camera goes up through a canopy of leaves. i panicked about how this was going to be done, but Rob reassured me that we would sit down and work it out. He told me to try out tests in the mean time. Also this week Rob and I sat together and tried to get the first shot of our groups work on the lounge completely finshed (modelled, textured, cameras in and lit). It's looking pretty good. I had to texture the last few objects for the lounge whicH included a stack of DVD's. I took note of the DVD covers because i can't copy actual films. So i made covers from scratch, looking at original DVD covers and changing the film title, the backgrounds and the actors in it. I replaced the actors faces with faces of people on my course. When i showed these covers to them they were impressed and said it adds a bit of humour to the film. I'm very pleased with the way some covers have turned out, especially the films;
The bourne Sidney
Tomb Runner
Dan's Eleven
Faulty Towers
After texturing, Rob and I put together the lighting for the lounge. Most of the light needed to come from the TV screen. As it is shot at night the scene was going to be quite dark but we managed to make objects seen with just the right amount of light using spot lights. The area light used in the TV couldn't light specific places in the room that really needed to be seen.

Lighting the Lounge