I made good progress on “TheBarrier” this week. I finished one scene from last week and did three new
ones. The movie is inching closer toward feature length.
Productivity
I added a little over 6 minutes this week, which puts me at 56
minutes total. I think I have about 44 minutes left to do. Unless I pick up the
pace, it will take me another couple of months to finish the first version. In
my better weeks I’ve done up to 10 minutes of new material.
Once I have all the scenes done, I expect I’ll need to do
some tidy up work. I know I added some elements in later scenes that I’ll need
to introduce in earlier scenes. I noticed that I have two characters who have
almost the same clothes on. I’ll need to fix that somehow.
Scenes
The scene I finished and two of the new ones make up a
single scene that I broke down into three separate scenes to make it easier to
work with. It is set at a public open house where Arthur, out hero, tries to
gain support for the barrier. The other new scene is a follow up to that scene
where Arthur has to placate a person who complained about how Arthur treated
him at the open house. I skipped a few scenes in between, which I will have to
go back to.
Problems and Ideas
I couldn’t find a set I thought was appropriate for the
public open house, so I used the coffee area set, which has a sort of large
empty room that I thought would work. I am not happy with it and I plan to
convert the scenes to the green screen and create my own backdrops. Previously
I worked out how I can change a set and keep all the dialogue, movement, and
camera positions for the scene.
Typically, they hold open houses in school gymnasiums. I
expect that will be difficult to create backdrops that match the proper
perspective.
I came up with a suggestion I plan to make to the Xtranormal
people. It would be nice to be able to create your own sets, but that could be
quite difficult to set up. I noticed that some of the sets have the option to
change “screens”, which allow you to add your own images to the sets. My
thought is that if they were to have a set that had six screens forming a box,
then it would be easier to create your own sets. They would be rather
rudimentary sets, but for my gymnasium set, it would work fairly well.
Another idea I had been for props. Currently props, like
chairs, tables and so on, are fixed within the set. I know it might be
difficult to create a new class of objects to be props, but I wonder if they
could create props as a special type of character. They would be characters
that don’t have any animation, but that would allow you place props around the
set.
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