7 May 2010

To hang a slime mold upside down or to spin the camera?

Since now it is clear from the animatic, that there is the confusion with the line of action, I need to fix it.

But I also see two ways of fixing it.

One is to make the slime mold, fruit hang dawn as if from a real ceiling. But there would be problems with composition, since what works now might be entirely wrong when the panels are flipped. Yet still this would be an option in order to make the line of action clear

Or we could make the camera rotate to mach what's actually seen in animatic. For instance from the establishing shot the camera would actually pan and rotate at the same time to make the "upside down" view normal. And just before releasing the spores it again would rotate to "world's point of view" ( a made up term of mine.. :/) and we'd then see a jump cut of spores falling down.

I'm constructing pre-viz now so this is a good time to decide which approach to choose.
Since now it is clear from the animatic, that there is the confusion with the line of action, I need to fix it.

7 comments:

  1. personally, I think the dynamic use of camera rotation is the way forward... looking forward to the new animatic for clarity...

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  2. :) SUre thing :) Cheers for the advice :)

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  3. Camera rotation, do they hang off walls???

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  4. if you're talking about slime mold, mine are hanging on the ceiling :)

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  5. ... just to be sure - in terms of accuracy, do slime molds happen 'upside down' in reality?

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  7. quite few videos created impression that they doo...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEggUBoivY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pNGhW9BiZE

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