Movement Capture to Motion Picture

Movement capture to motion picture

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The Art of Fight - Moving Image

The Final Piece

Overall I'm pleased with this.  It's not a movie fight scene but its as realistic from a fighters perspective as I can get.  I believe I capture that 'moment' I talked about by creating the flashing black shots and the slow motion scenes.  I put as much thought into the audio as I did the picture as  I had to have sound of some sort for the viewer but I wanted to show how sound disappears for the fighter.  This is why the audio comes and goes in between the black flashes as well as the images, and why it again disappears at the end when the wining fighter lands that knock out punch.

My Moving image

Getting toward the final piece!

I like the dramatic effect of silence towards the end.  I believe it has a bigger impact than sound.  I think 'that moment' I have talked about is as close to the reality of the fight as I can get the viewer.  My memories of getting punched in the ring are no more than flashes as it happens far to quick from my perspective.  I went with 2different heartbeats to make it more effective and to make the change less between the 2 less dramatic.  I need to tidy up the ending and somehow make the shift between being dazed and coming to for the win more recognisable.  The black flashes show the loss of time the eventual winner is having during the fight as these are the parts he won't remember when it's all over.

Stop Clock

Trying the stop clock

Just a short test to see how the stop clock would look in this piece.  I don't like it, it doesn't give the same effect as the seconds hand ticking away with the sound too.  Without the ticking sound you don't get the illusion that time is important and counting down to something, that urgency to complete the task at hand before time runs out.  So I think ill sick to the clock face.

My Moving Image

Moving image with sound.  

Just testing out some sounds.  I used the recording of the clock, heartbeat an the audio from the footage.  Although some of the audio doesn't match the scenes I was really just testing the fades and volumes.  I like how for a little bit towards the end the choppy scenes and the dimming volume of the fight creates the real drama when the heartbeat gets louder. (you may need to listen hard for the heartbeat its still a little low) Although this is far from my finished piece it is giving me a clearer idea of what works and what I need to do.  I know I definitely want to edit the clock into the piece and have it get fast paced then have the heart beat get louder with the other audio fading out completely just for a moment - to help define THAT MOMENT that I have referred to alot.

Time

Trying different clocks and timers for the film.  I recorded the clock face from my alarm clock and the rest of my phone.  I don't think clock face is big enough a clock similar to the on in the Bruce Lee story would be perfect as it is designed to count down but unfortunately my gym doesn't have one. I like the timer and the stop clock but will try them all in film to see how I get on.

PLEASE IGNORE COME DINE WITH ME IN THE BACKGROUND 

all my sound will be edited separately and added in after. 

Close as I could get but still show the all the numbers.

Close up to the clock.

The stop clock off my phone.

                                  

The timer from my phone.

Sound effects

Trying to create sound effects.  I used my phone to record some sounds them edited them.  The clock is something I'm unsure where add in or not but if I do I think the sound should be prominent at some point, to help define time.  The clock will have to continue to count down in really time whilst the video changes speed.  The heartbeat is important it will definitely be added into the sequence at the point before the fighter makes come back.

Heartbeat & ticking

Ticking- this sounds better than the next one but its not loud enough.

Ticking again

First attempt at editing

There are things I think work about this and alot that doesn't.  As I used my laptop on the ground and my bridge camera by hand you can tell when it changes camera because of the quality.  There is no sound yet as I am only trying to work out the scenes as of yet and trying to blend them together well enough to look like the same fight from different cameras.  Toward the end I try to create the illusion of alot of action by changing the angle often.  toward the beginning is slowing and from a distance as I want it to be realistic as possible and at the beginning of any fight an experienced fighter will suss out their opponent before getting in too close and attacking.  This was created using only a few pieces of footage, and I am worried about the quality a little.  I don't think its as good as it could have been.  It still has glitches and I getting used to, as well as experimenting with, crops and zooms.

Shooting some film

Just a quick look at a bit of the footage I have taking of the guys fighting.  I used alot of different angles, and 2cameras.  I had my laptop on the ground and I held my bridge camera.  The guys were great to work with, they only needed a little direction and were more than happy to take a punch.  After recording and reviewing the footage I think I realise how much goes into getting a professional look.  After seeing the lighting changing between clips on my own and finding it hard to change scene but keeping it looking fluent is alot harder than I imagined!  I thought I had my scenes well planned but I think if I had of had more time to work on recording rather than a Saturday morning I probably would have made editing alot easier on myself.

Shuey (fighter one) shadow boxing into the camera

The fighters sparring naturally, no choreographing involved

Terry (fighter2) shadow boxing into the camera

Dragon - The Bruce Lee story (Rob Cohen 1993)

Legend! What's brilliant about this is the clock. A fighter only has a limited time in the ring to finish or win the fight, wither that is 60 seconds 6 mins (3rounds). After seeing this I have a lot of new thoughts about capturing time, past and presence and incorporating the concept of that important moment in a fight. I think film with the clock in a few shots counting down in real time while time itself continues to change about to the different perspectives of either fighters and the crowd? The sound is so important here too, speaking form experience, when in the ring the crowd dims away and you just about hear your coach - if your lucky!

Moving Image stills (2)

This is as far as I am going to take this piece,

I will experiment wit techniques using different 

footage, and I think I will try to capture my

concept by shooting some scripted film.

Really need to be thinking of sound!!

Cinematography (2)

This process is so time consuming!  Here I used then same 

techniques (photography&video)as before but I deleted the tweens in

 between to get a much smoother finish and its starting to look like the

 music video I posted previously.  I supposed I kept it black and 

white as the music video is too, but I kind of regret it now.  

I think it needs some colour.

SOUND????????

Cinematography - Tweens

Creating a cool effect using video, photos and tweens.  What I did was 

splice the video up and put it back to together in pieces and adding photos 

and placing tweens in between to get the 'onion skin' effect.Can get hard

 to see the movement and overall its not what I want, but it was

 interesting to play about with video in photoshop for a change.