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Tough Guy Marionette Music Video
[ click for the video 3.1mb wmv ]
Here's a little music video I made so I could learn green-screen compositing and using After Effects. I bought some bright green construction paper from the drugstore and built a small stage with it. Then I lit the "stage" as best I could with various lights I had around the house. The first attempt created too many shadows which made the compositing difficult. The second attempt reduced most shadows.
I then filmed the marionette moving about. Fairly bad choreography though! :') Once I had the video I imported it into my computer. From there I created an After Effects project and imported the video. I simplified my task by creating several images scaled to DV 720x480 and importing those into the project for use as backgrounds.
Next I produced the green-screen composite. That took a bit of tweaking and isn't perfect but not bad. Most of the compositing problems arose because of the quick and dirty green-screen stage and lighting I used.
Finally, I added music, a title, and tweaked the cuts. Fun little test.
Click the image above to watch the video (3.1mb wmv).
Or, here for the WMV (3.1mb) or here for the Quicktime MOV (3.1mb).
Enjoy!
