Sum, Shape ur Mind

Graduat en Mitjans Audiovisuals SUM, Shape Ur Mind Report/Memòria Sergi Petit Salas PONENT: David Minguillón Planell AUTUM 2013 Figure index Table index Objectives  Purpose  Finality  Object  Scope Chapter 1 – Investigating the idea Chapter 2 – Developing the idea  Inspirations-references.  Story line. Chapter 3 – Preproduction tasks 1. Script 2. Storyboard 3. Finding locations 4. Make contact with the work team 5. Finding material 6. Planning Chapter 4 – Postproduction tasks  Selecting the recorded material  Finding music  Editing  Color correction Chapter 5 – Postproduction tasks  Editing the secial effects 1. VFX1 2. VFX2 3. VFX3 4. VFX4 5. VFX5 6. VFX6 7. VFX7 8. VFX8 9. VFX9 10. VFX10  Creating other elements Chapter 6 – Intellectual property Chapter 7 – Conclusions Figure index Fig. 2.1-1 Iron Man 2 reference…………………………………………………………………………...11 Fig. 2.1-2 Iron Man 2 reference…………………………………………………………………………...11 Fig. 2.1-3 Iron Man 2 reference…………………………………………………………………………...11 Fig. 3.1-1 First idea sketch………………………………………………………………………………...15 Fig. 3.2-1 First page of the Storyboard……………………………………………………………………17 Fig. 3.2-2 First page of the Storyboard……………………………………………………………………18 Fig. 3.2-3 First page of the Storyboard……………………………………………………………………19 Fig. 3.2-4 First page of the Storyboard and some more shots…………………………………………….20 Fig. 3.2-5 Some shots from other pages…………………………………………………………………..21 Fig. 3.3-1 Pedro and Kim’s table………………………………………………………………………….23 Fig. 3.3-2 Pedro and Kim’s table………………………………………………………………………….23 Fig. 3.3-3 Ruben’s office………………………………………………………………………………….23 Fig. 3.3-4 Ruben’s office………………………………………………………………………………….24 Fig. 3.3-5 Ruben’s office………………………………………………………………………………….24 Fig. 3.3-6 Hall………………….………………………………………………………………………….24 Fig. 3.3-7 Hall………………………….………………………………………………………………….24 Fig. 3.4-1 David Martinez, camera man…………………………………………………………………..26 Fig. 3.4-2 Clara Vallmajor, actress………………………………………………………………………..26 Fig. 3.4-3 David Rubio, actor……………………………………………………………………………..26 Fig. 3.4-4 Sergi Petit, actor/director……………………………………………………………………….26 Fig. 3.5-1 Step 1…………………………………………………………………………………………...27 Fig. 3.5-2 Step 2…………………………………………………………………………………………...27 Fig. 3.5-3 Step 3…………………………………………………………………………………………...27 Fig. 3.5-4 Step 4…………………………………………………………………………………………...27 Fig. 3.6-1 VFX planning……………………………………...…………………………………………...28 Fig. 4-1 Shot without FX……………………………………...…………………………………………..29 Fig. 4-2 Shot with FX……………………………………...………………………………………….......29 Fig. 4.4-1 Using DaViinci Resolve Lite to make the color correction……………………………………31 Fig. 5.1.1-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..34 Fig. 5.1.12 Video with VFX 1…………………………………………………………………………….35 Fig. 5.1.2-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..36 Fig. 5.1.2-2 Video with VFX 2……………………………………………………………………………36 Fig. 5.1.3-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..37 Fig. 5.1.3-2 Video with VFX 3…………………………………………………………………………....37 Fig. 5.1.3-3 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..38 Fig. 5.1.3-4 Video with VFX 3……………………………………………………………………………38 Fig. 5.1.4-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..39 Fig. 5.1.4-2 Video with VFX 4……………………………………………………………………………39 Fig. 5.1.5-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..41 Fig. 5.1.5-2 Video with VFX 5……………………………………………………………………………41 Fig. 5.1.5-3 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..42 Fig. 5.1.5-4 Video with VFX 5…………………………………………………………………………....42 Fig. 5.1.6-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..43 Fig. 5.1.6-2 Video with VFX 6……………………………………………………………………………43 Fig. 5.1.7-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..44 Fig. 5.1.7-2 Video with VFX 7……………………………………………………………………………45 Fig. 5.1.8-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..46 Fig. 5.1.8-2 Video with VFX 8……………………………………………………………………………47 Fig. 5.1.8-3 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..47 Fig. 5.1.8-4 Video with VFX 8……………………………………………………………………………47 Fig. 5.1.9-1 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..48 Fig. 5.1.9-2 Video with VFX 9……………………………………………………………………………49 Fig. 5.1.9-3 Video without VFX…………………………………………………………………………..49 Fig. 5.1.9-4 Video with VFX 9……………………………………………………………………………49 Fig. 5.2-1 Logo with the student’s typo…………………………………………………………………...50 Fig. 5.2-2 Logo with the new and final typo………………………………………………………………51 Fig. 5.2-3 Video with the new typography………………………………………………………………..51 Table index Fig. 3.6-1 Timetable of the project………………………………………………………………………..28 6 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Purpose En la realización de este proyecto se ha querido demostrar al mismo alumno que es capaz de realizar un producto audiovisual en todas sus fases de producción y así mismo demostrar que se es capaz de concluir con éxito diferentes trabajos de postproducción como la integración de efectos visuales. Finality La finalidad que se ha perseguido al realizar este cortometraje de ciencia ficción ha sido la de crear un producto audiovisual apto para mostrar a diferentes empresas del sector y poder demostrar con él que su productor es capaz de desempeñar los diferentes trabajos que surgen de un proyecto igual o similar. Object El producto final que se ha obtenido con la realización de este proyecto es un cortometraje de ciencia ficción realizado íntegramente por el alumno y apto para ser presentado a festivales, en el caso de que se quiera, y presentado también como demo reel o parte de un demo reel. Scope El proyecto SUM, Shape Ur Mind tiene un alcance muy grande por lo que se refiere a ser presentado en festivales de ciencia ficción ya que cuenta con subtítulos en inglés y por tanto no existe barrera lingüística. Obviamente el alcance del proyecto se acorta debido a que es un producto centrado en un estilo de cine concreto como es la ciencia ficción. Chapter 1. Investigating the idea 7 Chapter 1 – Investigating the idea Al plantear un proyecto es difícil saber qué tipo de proyecto se quiere desarrollar y, sobretodo, que medios son los que se quieren utilizar para llevar a cabo dicho proyecto. En el caso del proyecto SUM, Shape Ur Mind no estuvo claro que tipología de proyecto se iva a desempeñar por parte del alumno hasta casi el final de tiempo concedido para presentar las ideas de proyecto. La idea de crear un cortometraje de ciencia ficción era una idea que desde hacía ya mucho tiempo el alumno llevaba en su cabeza debido a que siempre ha pensado que en el cine español no hay producciones de cine tan comercial como pasa en el cine estadounidense, Hollywood. De esa necesidad por ver un producto creado en España que sea de una categoría más comercial, como lo es en su mayor parte el cine de ciencia ficción, y de la inspiración o referencia que creció al ver la película IronMan 2 surgió el primer planteamiento de proyecto. Esos dos pensamientos fueron los que hicieron nacer la voluntad de crear un proyecto audiovisual en el que se mezclara acción real con la integración de efectos visuales creador íntegramente con ordenador y software 3D. Pero antes de empezar a pensar en una idea y un guión sobre el que desarrollar el cortometraje era necesario saber si el alumno era capaz por si solo de realizar dicho trabajo con éxito o de si en el tiempo que se le prestaba para realizarlo sería capaz de aprender las técnicas para poder llevarlo a cabo. Fue aquí donde, junto con un proyecto paralelo llamado Disertation, se empezó a buscar información sobre las distintas técnicas que se han utilizado en el cine para recrear situaciones imposibles o crear efectos visuales para simular explosiones, transformaciones, etc. Gracias al desarrollo de la Disertation, documento que se puede leer en los anexos, se aprendió sobre los diferentes tipos de efectos visuales que han existido a lo largo de la historia del cine y el método de aplicación que tienen así como de la evolución que han tenido tanto los efectos en sí mismos como la manera de realizarlos. ----- On the first group we will talk about the optical effects, which are known as visual or photographic effects as well. As their name show they are based on photo retouching, frame retouching if we are working with moving images, like we do in cinema. In the last years another type of doing things has been added to this group. This new technique is animation where all what is seen is created only with the computer, so we see CGI (Computer Generated Images). The second group on which the FX are classified is known as mechanic effects, practice or physic effects. They have this name because they are effects executed during the recording. On this group is where operators use mechanical puppets, stage design, pyrotechnics and other effects like rain or fire. At the beginning this style of doing things was very rudimentary but nowadays a mechanical puppet can do lots of movements and his face can recreate very kind of human expressions. On the third place we will talk about sound effects. This group contains all programmes sounds like growls, sounds of technology, etc. Despite popular belief, that thinks the sound effects have not been considered as a FX, it has to be said that most of the experts and operators confirm that a visual effect alone does not serve, it must be accompanied by a sound effect to complete his integration. This is because our brain only considers one thing as a real thing if we can see and hear it. Finally the fourth group is the special makeup. Nowadays is considered that the most part of the FX are created using the computer and software designed for animation, but the truth is that the makeup is very important on any production. With makeup we can create from the face of a monster or a werewolf to a perfect makeup for an actress who is having a coffee on the terrace of a bar. There are some different types of makeup. A good makeup artist has to know everyone to do a good job in any production he does. 8 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria ------ Una vez estudiados los diferentes tipos de efectos visuales existentes en la actualidad y sus métodos de realización el alumno concluyo que era capaz de realizar los efectos que tenía en mente o que tenia las herramientas para poder aprender a realizarlos y llegar a producir un cortometraje de ciencia ficción capaz de rivalizar con algunas producciones profesionales. Chapter 3. Preproduction tasks 15 Chapter 3 – Preproduction tasks 1. Script Uno de los fundamentos que los profesores de Gales nos enseñaron y nos remarcaron durante toda nuestra estancia en Gales el primer año fue que todo producto audiovisual debe tener un pequeño guión. Debe tener un orden de acontecimientos pensado y estructurado para que el espectador pueda seguirlo y entender que lo que está viendo tiene una parte narrativa, que se le está contando algo aunque ese algo sea una simple idea. Cumpliendo con este objetivo los profesores nos ayudaron a crear nuestro propio guión para los diferentes proyectos que teníamos. En mi caso, y como ya he explicado en capítulos anteriores, llegue a Gales el primer año con una idea de guión bastante definida pero que necesitaba de unas mejoras para poder convertirse en una historia apta para un proyecto final como el que se ha realizado. La idea que traje conmigo de España hasta Gales el primer año consistía en 3 personas que necesitaban ayuda para poder completar sus proyectos. Para ello empleaban el uso de una maquina que entraba en su subconsciente y realizaba el proyecto controlando sus habilidades motoras. Esta primera idea era muy simple y le faltaba aun madurar, aunque por otro lado la idea se había quedado simple porque en un principio la intención del proyecto final era poner video a una canción, por tanto crear un videoclip a una canción de un grupo llamado Linkin Park. Fig. 3.1-1. First idea sketch 16 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria A pesar de tener una idea clara de cómo hacer cada escena siguiendo la canción finalmente se desestimo esta propuesta por parte del alumno debido a que al realizar este proyecto se tendrían que comprar los derechos de la canción y que finalmente el alumno prefirió decantar el proyecto hacia un producto más cinematográfico, como es el cortometraje. Una vez en Gales se siguió trabajando con la idea que se había creado alrededor de la canción para darle un aire más cinematográfico y conseguir así un guión para un cortometraje de ciencia ficción. ---- On the first days on Wales the idea consists only on 3 professionals that have a problem with his own projects and use a machine to solve it. During the whole month the student develop this idea thinking about the 3 professionals, who they are, what kind of project do they have to do, where they are working and why, and obviously he had to think about the script. What will happen first, what actions they will do, who will do this actions, etc. All this questions was answered during the course in Wales by the student, but on some of them the student was helped by Jim who was always making the student think about all the possibilities before to choose one. One example of this was thinking about the end of the short film where Jim asks to the student to think 10 different finals for the next day. It was very difficult to think 10 different finals for one project that you don’t know how to end and it is more difficult to think this 10 different finals for tomorrow but fortunately the 10 different finals was thought and this makes more easier to choose one of them to work on it and develop a more credible and good final. After 2 weeks working on the short film script the main action of the script was finished. On that moment the short film tells the story of 3 professionals, an architect, a painter and a writer, who have to finish his own projects but they does not have any good idea so one of them go for inspiration to the basement and there he finds a machine, this machine will help him finish his project and he will share with his mates. But one of these mates will go further and will use this machine on his own benefits. After using the machine for one night and one day the machine take the control of his body and the only way to save him from the machine is to overload him with ideas. This overloading leaves him in coma. After one month he came again to his work in order to remember what happen that day and his mates tell him that he has to destroy the machine. This was the script after 2 weeks of working but there were some things that were not definitive because they depended on the location of recording. During the year, from September to June, the script had some changes because of the actors or the locations, but all the changes done does not affect to the story and the main idea of the script. Some changes were changes like this character had to do this action but now will do another action that fits better with the location and still make sense with the scene and the script. The major part of these changes was done on the recording time so they are not reflected on the script. 2. Storyboard The first storyboard that the student did was during the first stage on Wales and he only can imagine the locations because he does not know where he will record the different scenes of his short film. Apart from that he does not know if he will be able to do the VFX that he had thought during the preproduction so he knows that probably some of the effects that he thought will change a little bit or it will be replaced by other effects. Usually when people do a storyboard before recording time is because he will use the storyboard to know what he have to record and how. They follow the storyboard. But on this case the Chapter 3. Preproduction tasks 17 student did the storyboard to have his ideas on a paper and from that paper have a guide to know what he have to do on the new locations he find. The best way to work was to redraw the storyboard once the student gets the new locations in order to have the final storyboard without any mistake, but it was not possible to do because when he finally found the locations he does not have enough time to redraw the storyboard for the recording day. Fig. 3.2-1. First page of the storyboard. 18 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Fig. 3.2-2. Second page of the storyboad Chapter 3. Preproduction tasks 19 Fig. 3.2-3. Third page of the storyboard. 20 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Fig. 3.2-4. Fourth page of the storyboard and some more shots. Chapter 3. Preproduction tasks 21 Fig. 3.2-5. Some shots from the other pages 22 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria 3. Finding locations When the idea was thought the main locations was thought as a old building that have a large corridor inside and a big room with large windows. But as said before the final script was different from the first idea and on that new idea this big old building does not fit enough so was time to think more new locations. In order to think about the locations the first was to analyze the script and see how many different locations are needed by the script. With the script finished this work was easy to do because on this script there was a description to know if the scene has to be inside or outside and if it was the office of Pedro, Ruben or Kim or the Hospital or somewhere else. Work on searching the locations for the short film was a work that started on September 2012 because on the previous July the script was under developing on Wales so it was not possible to know the locations without seeing it. Because of it is a low cost production the first idea was to use as a main stage the student house or a family/friend house but after thinking about this he decided not to show his own house for 2 reasons. He thought that if the 3 character of the short film are professionals and they are working on his projects they have to be on a studio, university, etc. but not in a house so definitively the his house or a family/friend house does not fit to his short film location search. And the other reason was because he does not want to show his house on the net if he could avoid. He needs to find a location that seems a studio where 3 professionals of different arts can be working together, a location that seems the basement of this “studio”, a location that simulates a hospital room or a real hospital room and some outside locations. The easier to find was the outside locations because it could be any street and the other locations were a little problematic. To record the scene on the hospital room the student wanted to use some rooms that are on TecnoCampus University but when he ask for information to know how to get license to record there they told him that it take a large time to do and he realized that when he wanted to record there will be Christmas holidays so it will be impossible to rent this location for that days. The second option was to ask to Mataró Hospital to lend him a room for 2 or 3 hours but he knows people who works there and they told him that on Christmas holidays is impossible. So finally he decided to omit the scene on the hospital room and record that scene on a different way on an outside location. The main location was still under searching when one day a company with which the student had worked before call him to ask for some work. When he go to the company he take a look to his building and ask to they if they lend him make the recordings of his short film. For his surprise they do not make any problem and lend him record whatever he wants. About one month before the recording day he had all the locations except one, the basement. He does not know where to find a basement because he wants a basement with book shelves and models or something that make think to the viewer of the short film that there they keep all their projects. Despite all his tries to find a good location before the recording day this day came and he had to record all the scenes and leave this unrecorded. At first this was a big problem because the idea was to record everything in one or two days but finally this was not possible because of some problems while recording and he had to leave unrecorded more than one scene. With the first recording day passed he had to keep thinking and searching for the basement and finally he finds the best place. One of his friends, who were helping him as a camera man, had a basement on his house with book shelves, models, and some other things that will fit to his short film. Chapter 3. Preproduction tasks 23 He asks for license to record there and the second recording day takes place on his house. There were recorded the basement scene, the outside scene replacing the hospital scene and the final scene that was also outside. Fig. 3.3-1. Pedro and Kim’s table. Fig. 3.3-2. Pedro and Kim’s table. Fig. 3.3-3. Ruben’s office. 24 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Fig. 3.3-4. Ruben’s office. Fig. 3.3-5. Ruben’s office. Fig. 3.3-6. Hall. Fig. 3.3-7. Hall. Chapter 4. Production tasks 31  Color correction With the montage done the next step was to make the color correction to get the same color at all the short film. This color correction was done with DaVinci Resolve Lite, one of the best software for do a color correction. The student wanted to follow the timetable but he cannot complete the term with the production part because when he started with the color correction he had to learn how to use DaVinci Resolve so he need 2 weeks approximately to learn how to do a nice color correction, how to save it in a good quality and every single tip that the software have. Even thought when he begun with the color correction of the short film he had some problems because he does not thought that the color correction had to be done scene per scene, he does not do a color correction of all the short film because the illumination of every scene is different and if you do the correction of all the short and you put up the light on one scene, the light of the whole short go up and you can have a scene with too much light. This was a setback because he had to do the color correction scene per scene and added to he does not manage the software as good as he wanted he get some scenes with a similar color correction but not the same. He expend more time that he expected working on the color correction and the final result of that work was not as good as he thought when he started with it but was his first color correction done for one big project like SUM, Shape Ur Mind and he thought was good enough for one project of this characteristics. Fig. 4.4-1. Using DaVinci Resolve Lite to make the color correction. 32 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 33 Chapter 5 – Postproduction tasks After several months working on the project finally the student had reached the postproduction part of his project. For him this was the most important part of the project because the objective and the main reason why he did this type of project were to create and integrate visual effects on a real action movie. When he started the project he knew that he would have to learn how to create realistic visual effects and how to integrate them into a real action scene. To learn that he started watching video tutorials on YouTube and other websites like www.videocopilot.com. But where he learned the major part was on MadCenter, an audiovisual school in Barcelona where he did a Cinema4D course and a Cinema4D advanced course to know how to run the software. On the main scenes of SUM, Shape Ur Mind appears some VFX and on these scenes the VFX are created with Cinema4D. Cinema4D it is real good software to do 3D objects and the student used this software to do the main effects of the short film but there are some other effects that are done using another software. This other software has been used also to integrate all the effects on the scenes, we are talking about Adobe After Effects CS6 and also the newest version Adobe After Effects CC.  Editing the effects On the short film there are 9 VFX. 1. VFX 1 The first effect that appears on the short film is when the writer, Pedro, turn on his computer to take a look at his mail. When his slides his hand over the computer this turns on and start making a green light forming a grid from where the icons of the operating system appear. When the computer is loaded Pedro start searching the icon of mail and when he finds it he open the application. A list of 3 mails appear and he start rolling the list searching the mail that he wants to view, once he finds it he opens with a click on the name and with his two hands he make it bigger. Every single part of this effect has been done using Adobe After Effects CC. The first step to create this effect was to create the green light which indicates that the PC is on. This light starts with and opacity of 0% and in a few seconds turns to 100%. After doing this light the next step was to create the grid with a preset of the same software. It was helpfully to have a preset that do a grid where you want but this creates a problem because if you create something with After Effects and you want to integrate it on the scene normally you have to do a mask to place it on the right site and to put elements like a hand in front of what you had created. Because of the grid was created as a preset of the program the mask does not affect him so what the student did was to export the video without any effect and put it on upper layer to make the mask on it and hide the grid where he wanted. This was done because the two hand of Pedro, the character who is interacting with the computer on these scenes are in front of the computer so they have to hide the holograms created by the computer. With the two things that indicate that the computer is running the next step to create the effect was to create the icons of the operating system. The icons where from internet and were put with a green margin. They were animated appearing from the grid and moving when the hand of the character slides him to one side. This animation was really difficult to do because the three icons have to move at the same time and with the same 34 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria movement everyone when the hand of the character moves one of them. The student wanted to simulate that the three icons was making a circle so he make bigger the one that was on the center and the other ones make smaller and with a little rotation to simulate that they are following a circle. When the character makes click on one of the icons, the mail icon, the three icons disappear and appear a list with three mails. The character start making the same with this list as he had done with the icons but now the mails does not roll from right to left, they roll from down to up. The mails are another time a green margin and some typography that indicates who had sent the mail and the subject of the mail. Finally the character finds the mail that he was searching and makes click on it to open. This makes that the three mails disappear and on the same place a big green margin appear with the mail. The character moves his hands to the margin and makes it bigger as he catches the mail and stretches it. The most difficult and tedious part of this effect was to do the mask frame by frame of the two hands. Because After Effects CC has some plug-ins that makes the mask automatically but on this case the student cannot use it because at ever frame the shape of the two hands was different and the plug-ins did not recognizes so good, so he had to do the two mask frame by frame for his own. Fig. 5.1.1-1. Video without VFX. Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 35 Fig. 5.1.1-2. Video with VFX 1. 2. VFX 2 This effect and also the other ones where the machine is used had been done using Adobe After Effects CS6. The work flow followed to do these effects are the same because the machine is always working on the same way so in every scene that the machine appears these effects was done following the same steps. The machine has two parts, one that is the rigid body, which goes on the head of the person who wears it, and the flexible part, that goes on the forehead. While the machine is running the two parts generate a blue light that moves making circles on the head of the person who wears it. This light has an arrow form when it is on the rigid part of the machine and it turns in a square form when it is on the flexible part. To do this effect was needed two different layers. On one layer was created a big blue solid that reaches all the head of the character and with a mask, that has the arrow form, was hide all the part that does not have to be shown. This mask was animated following the movement of the character’s head in order to make the light be on the machine at every time despite the character moves his head or not. After doing the animation of the mask, animation that was done frame by frame, the student adds an effect of the software that give to the light blur. This was made to simulate that the light was there and that this light make real light. To do the light of the flexible part the steps were the same as the rigid part but the difference as that the shape of the mask was not an arrow, now the shape was a square. 36 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Fig. 5.1.2-1. Video without VFX. Fig. 5.1.2-2. Video with VFX 2. 3. VFX 3 On the 3rd effect of the short film the student had to divide it on three different parts and every part was done with After Effects CC. The first part was the blue light of the machine. To do this part the student followed the same steps of the VFX2. The second part was to make the holographic PC and every new part of it. On this effect the character uses his computer to write his project and while he is writing he is wearing the machine on his head. To white with the computer appears a keyboard of the grid and the character uses it to write directly to the paper he had on the table. As on the first time he uses the computer the student had to do the green light and the grid, that create the same problem with the preset making the student export the video and put it on upper layer to hide the grid. Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 37 The new parts of the computer he had to do was the keyboard that appear like the icons on the VFX1 but this time the keyboard do not appear on straight line but appear with a curve to the hands of the character. This keyboard was downloaded from internet, it was a png file free of rights, and with Adobe Photoshop CS6 the student give to the keyboard a green light with some blur to make it shiny. After that the student import to After Effects and made the animation of this keyboard. This effect was also difficult as the VFX1 because the student had to do 6 different masks, one for every hand on the 3 shots of the scene. All of these masks was done frame by frame because of another time the shape of the hands was different in every single frame. The third part of this effect was to create the illusion that the computer was writing on the papers that the character had on his table, beside him. This part of the effect was more easier than the second part because when the scene was recorded the paper was already written so the only thing that the student had to do was to put a blue light over the paper and make it move while the character was writing to make it seems like it was written by himself. This blue light over the paper was the same characteristics than the light of the machine. Fig. 5.1.3-1. Video without VFX. Fig. 5.1.3-2. Video with VFX 3. 38 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Fig. 5.1.3-3. Video without VFX. Fig. 5.1.3-4. Video with VFX 3. 4. VFX 4 On this effect the student used only After Effects CC and divided the affect on two parts. The first part of the effect was to do the lights of the machine following the same steps of the other effects done. This effect was the first effects that the student did and on that part of the effect he tried to do the movement of the blue light of the machine with tracking software. He tried the tracker of After Effects CS6 and the tracker software Boujou but he does not find the way to do what he wanted for this effect and finally he did the movement of the lights animating it by him. And the second part of the effect was to do the printing. On this scene Kim, the painter, is wearing the machine to paint a good painting for his project. When she wears the machine she starts to move his head from one side to the other like if she was a printer and with her eyes she paints on the blank canvas. To do this part of the effect the student had used one layer where he puts a painting, that he did with Cinema4D, over the blank canvas and animate a mask to make it seems the painting were been printed by Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 39 the movement of Kim. He also put a blue shining square to show where the character was looking at and where she is printing. Fig. 5.1.4-1. Video without VFX. Fig. 5.1.4-2. Video with VFX 4. 40 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria 5. VFX 5 On the VFX5 the student combined more than one software to create the effect. As other effects this effect can be divided in three parts. The first part was another time the blue light of the machine, this part was done in every effect where the character uses the machine and the way to do it was always the same. Create the blue solid, make the mask with the correct shape and animate the mask to make the light move with according to the head’s movement. This type of effect was done with Adobe After Effects CS6. The second part of VFX5 was done with Adobe Illustrator CC. This part was to create the plans of a building. On that scene the architect was trying to do the plans and the model of a building for his project and using the machine he will complete his project. While he is moving his hands creating the model as a 3D hologram on the table he has the blank papers where the plans begin to draw. And finally the third part of this effect was to create the building on 3D and animate him to make the illusion that is being built with the movements of Ruben, the architect. To do this building the student used Cinema4D where he first made the entire building using some properties of the software and when he finished the building he animated the different parts of the building to show as the building was under construction. So the modeling of the building and the animation was done using Cinema4D, once this two parts was done the student exported the building as a sequence of png files with an alpha channel, to get the transparency, and put all this sequence on a Adobe After Effects CC layer to make the integration of the building on the scene with the real action. Once on After Effects he upgrades the building using effects of After Effects to make it shinier and to give a nice color. Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 47 Fig. 5.1.8-2. Video with VFX 8. Fig. 5.1.8-3. Video without FX. Fig. 5.1.8-4. Video with VFX 8. 48 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria 9. VFX 9 This effect can only be read if previously you watched the short film because it is an spoiler of what happens at the end of the short film. On the final scene Ruben is on an alley and he is going to burn the machine on a bin. He puts the box on the bin and start throwing kerosene above the two things to make it burn faster. When the box is burning he took his bag again and starts walking again. Spoiler. When he is walking a blue light appears inside the bag showing that he had burned the box but not the machine. This scene had to be recorded on the afternoon but on the storyboard and script it has to be late at night. This makes a setback because the sun light so before doing anything the student make a research on the net to know if it was possible to do a day to night conversion. He finally finds a tutorial from www.videocopilot.com where they show how to do this conversion with few steps. The only thing he had to do was to make a solid with Adobe After Effects CC put the opacity low, about 25%, and give to this solid some color effects to make it blue. He used the blue color because everything is bluer at night than at the midday. The main problem that he had doing this day to night conversion was that the fire was painted also blue and even if it is midday, night or whatever hour of the day fire always have the same color and the same shine. He had to do a mask, another time on this project, to make the blue solid not to affect to the fire. After finishing the day to night conversion he started to do the blue light inside of the bag. He used the same workflow that he used doing the blue lights of the machine in every effect where characters used it. The student did a blue solid which with using masks he gave the proper shape and with some effects he give to the light some blur and glow. Fig. 5.1.9-1. Video without FX. Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 49 Fig. 5.1.9-2. Video with VFX 9. Fig. 5.1.9-3. Video without FX. Fig. 5.1.9-4. Video with VFX 9. 50 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria  Creating other elements A part from doing the different effects of the short film on the postproduction the student had to do more things that are also important for the short film. The first thing he had to do was to find typography for every text that appears on the short film. At the beginning the typography had to be created by the student but he decided that he will create it if he had enough time after doing all the effects and get the short film finished. Finally he cannot get enough time to do it and decided to search some typography similar to what he wanted to do. After searching for hours he finally found a close enough typo to use, this typo was a free rights typo so he can use without any problem on his short film. This typo was used to finishes the VFX7 and to put a time reference on the ellipse after the Ruben’s accident with the machine. Fig. 5.2-1. Logo with the student’s typo. Chapter 5. Postproduction tasks 51 Fig. 5.2-2. Logo with the new and final typo. Fig. 5.2-3. Video with the new typography. 52 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria The second thing he had to do on the postproduction part after had finished the VFX was to integrate them with sound effects. This was the most bored part of the short film because despite the student knows that without audio the visual effects seems poor and false he does not like working the audio part. Also this part took too long because he had to search on the net the sounds for every single effect and sometimes the sound he had in mind does not exist and he does not have the tools and the equipment to create it so he had to improvise some sounds recycling other sounds and retouching some properties like pitch using audio software called Logic Pro. Obviously all the sounds he found and used on the short film were free of rights because the main objective was to not have any problem for rights doing this short film. If it is only one person who work on one project like this it is obvious that he cannot do everything good, one person is good in doing something but not as good as someone else doing some other part of the project so if a project like this is done by one person he has to get help from the net or from other people who had created things and share it. Finally the student did the credits for the short film. He started doing the initial credits where the only thing that appears is the logo. To create this credits he used another time Adobe After Effects CC and a plug-in from www.videocopilot.com that he bought by the net. This plug-in is called Twitch and it makes the logo, on this case, move and changes his color like it has interference. On the final credits he wanted to use the same plug-in as the initial credits but he thought that will be too much repetitive and he decided to do n animation with alpha channel and using one of the effect that the software has. It took one afternoon to do all the final credits because despite the animation is so simple comparing to the animation of the VFX he had to do every animation with the same tempo and playing at the same time of the other texts. Chapter 6. Intelecutal property 53 Chapter 6 – Intelectual property All the media and software that had been used to do this final project was legal and the student does not break any law. The student used two different softwares because during the year he works on his house with one computer and during the second stage at Glyndwr with another computer, his laptop. During the year he used software from Adobe’s family, which are Adobe After Effects CS6, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, and also he used other software outer Adobe like DaVinci Resolve Lite. A part from the last one, which as indicates his name was a free version that everyone can download from the website of the software, the Adobe software was bought to work on the project and also to use it for some professional projects that the student could find. The problem cames when he had to install the software on his laptop because the computer where he had the software was an iMac and his laptop runs with Windows7. Unfortunately he cannot use the same software because of this incompatibility and because he run out of licenses for the software. The solution that he founds was to download a trial version of every program that he needs to finish his project. This was a really good idea because he only will stay at Glyndwr University for one month and the trial version always give to the user one month to try the software. So he downloaded Adobe After Effects CC to his laptop2 days before the leaving date to Wales to know if the new software of Adobe was compatible with the old one, the CS6. Luckily he does not have any problem and he decided to go through with this idea. He only downloads the software that he really needs to do the project because the laptop is not as good as the iMac and he does not want to fill with programs that he won’t use. Doing a project like this the software is not the only thing that has to be under the law. The student also searched music without any right or with creative commons. He started the searching using the webpage www.incompetech.com from where he uses music for the trailer of the short film and one song for the short film. But he wanted and needed more music for the short film, he started again the searching and he tried to put on the search engine of YouTube the keywords “free royalty music”, for his surprise he founds a YouTube channel called TeknoAXE where the owner uploads songs created by him and he classify them for categories. The student take a look to all the categories, he has categories like dubstep music, orchestral music, 8-bit music, introduction music, trailer music, loop music, comedy music and more categories. The student begun to listen the dubstep list and he found some great songs that he wanted for his short film so he decided to download from the webpage of the artist. In every single song the owner of the channel adds a description to the video where he explain that the song of that video is free of rights and everyone who wants can used it for anything does not matter if it is lucrative or not. And he also adds a download link to get the song in highest quality. Finally the other media that the student used for this short film was the 3D objects. As had been explained before, on one of the VFX he used some 3D models of different objects that he downloaded from the net. On that case he does not use free right or something like this, what he did was download free 3D models. He download the models from www.turbosquid.com. On that website there are lots of different models and there are some models for which you have to pay if you want to use it and some for which you do not have to pay anything, they are free. The student started looking the free objects and he decided not to buy anything because the free objects was so good for his project. In conclusion everything he used for the short film SUM, Shape Ur Mind is free of rights, there is only the songs of www.incompetech.com that have an attribution right, or they are free. And the atrezzo and everything that is shown on the short film is bought by the student or borrowed for the actors or the camera man. 54 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Report/Memòria Chapter 7. Conclusions 55 Chapter 7 – Conclusions At the beginning of the project the student put some objective that he wanted to demonstrate and he wanted to know if he was able to reach these objectives. Apart from that objectives he also learn some good advises for next projects he will have to do and also he thinks this advises can be used on other sides of life. One of the objectives he wanted to demonstrate to everybody but in special to himself was know if he was able to do special effects like the ones of the Hollywood movies. He knows at the beginning that he was only one man and on Hollywood productions there is a team so he wanted to know if being only one man he can do some VFX similar to the Hollywood ones. Now, with the project finished, he thinks he could reach this objective because the VFX done are good enough to have been made by only one person. From the previous conclusion, the student has learned another important one. As have been said before on Hollywood productions there have a team group so he thinks that the best way to do a project like SUM, Shape Ur Mind is working on group. It is possible to do with only one person, here it is SUM, but to get better results it is better to work with a good team. One person could do by the best way some part of the project but probably there will be another person who could do better than him one part of that project, that is why the student thinks it is better to work on teams. Another objective he thought at the beginning of the project was to prove that he can write the script of a short film. He thought that objective because on projects like this the parts that he always wanted to do are the preproduction, organizing and writing the script, storyboard and thinking the locations, and doing parts of postproduction like the integration of the effects on the real action scenes. He always wanted to do the preproduction part but is with this project when he realized that to be able to do a good project is needed the best preproduction you can do. He always did the preproduction of the class works and he thinks that in comparison the preproduction done to SUM it is so much better than the ones he did in the past but he thinks that the preproduction part for this project had to be better to get better results. Now he knows that the preproduction part is one of the most important because is on this part where everything had to be planned and thought. If anything is not clear later this part will create problems and everything will go bad because of this part was not thought. Not all the conclusion are bad or depressive, there also be good conclusions. The student have learned that on the professional world you do not have a teacher who will help when you have a problem, you do not have your parents who will talk for you, if you want to be someone on this world you have to work and work and if you do not know how to do something sometimes you will have to move by your own to find the right form to do it or to find some way to do it. The major times there will exist a better way to do something but the important thing is to have resources and show that you can do that thing or that you can find one way to do it. Obviously this project was not a professional project and the student had a teacher here in Mataró who ask help if he need and the Glyndwr teacher when he stayed there, but despite this he only ask for help once or twice because he wanted to do everything by his own to be tested. To conclude with all the report it is important to say that with SUM, Shape Ur Mind, the student had demonstrated that one person could do a science fiction short film and that the main difference between Hollywood productions and low-cost productions are the money invested on the production, the equipment used to do the production and the people who work on the production. If you want to do a production like Iron Man 2 you have to have a team group, good hardware and money to buy this hardware. If you want to do a modest production you do not have to have so much money and with a few people you can do it but you also have to buy or have good hardware because you have to run the software and manipulate the media. 4 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Economic review 1.3. Amortitzation. Equipment used Usage time Price/hour Total Hardware iMac 600 + 200 (render time) 0,225 180 Laptop 200 + 100 (render time) 0,6 180 Wacom 50 0,48 24 Nikon 24 3,75 90 Microphone 24 0,48 11,25 Software A. Photoshop 50 1,8 90 A. After Effects 350 0,25 90 A. Premiere Pro 200 0,45 90 A. Illustrator 30 3 90 Cinema4D 100 7,5 750 ToonBoom 50 1,49 74,7 Logic Pro 25 2,16 54 TOTAL AMORTITZATIONS 1.339,95 Prototype costs 5 1.4. Indirect spending. Doing this short film there was not any indirect spending apart from the electricity of the computers because all the production of the short film was done at home or at Glyndwr University. This is the reason because the student finally set a percent of 1%. 1.5. Prototype manufacture cost. Material cost 4.675 € Human resources cost 23.870 € Amortization cost 1.339,95 € Subtotal 29.884,95 € Indirect spending (1%) 298,84 € TOTAL 30.183,79 € 6 SUM, Shape Ur Mind – Economic review Market selling price 7 2. Market selling price. 2.1. Total unit cost. On this point the student calculate the manufacturing cost which are referred to get in contact with a company in order to create a professional DVD with his box and printed cover. The price has been consulted on a company (www.duradisc.com), they sent the budget via mail. To make 10000 will cost 7.500€ which means a price of 0,75€ for each DVD. Material total cost per prototype 30.183,79 € Material cost per unity 3,01 € Manufacturing cost per unity 0,75 € Total cost per unity 3,76 € 2.2. Selling price per unit. Total cost per 10.000 units. 7.500 € Development cost 30.183,79 € TOTAL COST 37683,79 € Unite selling cost 3,76 € Comercial margin 70% 2,63 € Unite selling price 6,39 € Graduat en Mitjans Audiovisuals SUM, Shape Ur Mind Appendix Sergi Petit Salas PONENT: David Minguillón Planell AUTUM 2013 Dissertation – The Special effects 1.- Introduction The dissertation is focused on the special effects, more specifically at how these have entered the world of cinema and how they have changed. To do this the research has been focused on various aspects such as:  Classification of the FX in order of when they have to be done.  The consequences of the use of the special effects. As you can see, the job search is divided into two blocks of study that at the same time can be complementary. The first block will study and compare the first techniques used to create special or visual effects in movies of the time, paying attention on how to introduce the effects, with the new techniques used today to create fantasy worlds or to make a film without any real actor. In a few words this first part of the project will be a comparison of the older FX with the newest FX to know more about how they have evolved and how the FX works. This comparison will be done on the three groups I have planned, before, while and after the recording. The objective of this first block is to know what types of FX exist, to know when we have to do every one and to know more about his evolution in order to think, if it’s possible, a new way to do some FX. To perform the second block is an essential requirement to perform a little research of the history and development that have been affected since its appearance in the film and then can know what the consequences have been derived from this use. Speaking of consequences that have arisen with the use of effects refers to how the public reacted to see the effects on one side and how has the film world evolved as being able to integrate elements of fiction in real life situations. The main objective of this second block of study is basically to know what consequences of the use of these special effects have caused. 2.- Special FX 2.1.- What are they? The special effects can be defined as a set of techniques used on the entertainment world either theatre, opera, cinema, tv, concerts or home videos. These techniques are applied in any of these disciplines to create an illusion to the spectator who things, that actions or events are real when in a normal way this kind of things are impossible to achieve. When we talk about illusions we talk about transformations, like a metamorphosis from human to alien, recreate impossible actions, like fly, or create scenes where what is happening does not exist. It is obvious that without this kind of effects all of the previous examples would be impossible to do and therefore could not record. But this is not the only reason why most of films use FX, on the most of the cases they use FX because it’s more cheap to recreate Dissertation – The Special effects something with the computer and sometimes it’s more save. On this kind of effects we can find representations of extinct or fantasy animals, like dinosaurs or dragons, also recreations of explosions of models (the boats of Pirates of the Caribbean). Apart of the generation of illusions and emotions, as has been said before, it is important to say that there is a kind of effects used to improve what has been recorded. In conventional methods there are some ways to improve one recorded scene or frame, one of the methods is by including things, colour or lightness, using the adding technique. Another way is using the deducting technique in which some things of the picture are erased and another way to modify the frame is altering already on the same frame. 2.2.- Types Within the special effects you can find some different classifications due to the number of different types of existing FX. The most accepted classification divides them into four groups. On the first group we will talk about the optical effects, which are known as visual or photographic effects as well. As their name show they are based on photo retouching, frame retouching if we are working with moving images, like we do in cinema. In the last years another type of doing things has been added to this group. This new technique is animation where all what is seen is created only with the computer, so we see CGI (Computer Generated Images). The second group on which the FX are classified is known as mechanic effects, practice or physic effects. They have this name because they are effects executed during the recording. On this group is where operators use mechanical puppets, stage design, pyrotechnics and other effects like rain or fire. At the beginning this style of doing things was very rudimentary but nowadays a mechanical puppet can do lots of movements and his face can recreate very kind of human expressions. On the third place we will talk about sound effects. This group contains all programmes sounds like growls, sounds of technology, etc. Despite popular belief, that thinks the sound effects have not been considered as a FX, it has to be said that most of the experts and operators confirm that a visual effect alone does not serve, it must be accompanied by a sound effect to complete his integration. This is because our brain only considers one thing as a real thing if we can see and hear it. Finally the fourth group is the special makeup. Nowadays is considered that the most part of the FX are created using the computer and software designed for animation, but the truth is that the makeup is very important on any production. With makeup we can create from the face of a monster or a werewolf to a perfect makeup for an actress who is having a coffee on the terrace of a bar. There are some different types of makeup. A good makeup artist has to know everyone to do a good job in any production he does. Dissertation – The Special effects 3.- Classification To have a clear idea about the FX I wanted to classify all types of effects by when they have to be done. In my opinion it is a good way to classify them because lots of people think all the effects are done on the postproduction and this is not true. 3.1.- Before recording It is obvious that every kind of effects has to be thought of before recording to know how the camera man has to record the shots in order to include the effect on the postproduction, for example. But there are some FX that their preparation and execution are on the preproduction. These effects are the makeup effects. Makeup FX The appearance of makeup as a special effect and as an indispensable element on a cinema production was because of the problems that first celluloid have with the colour of the skin. They reacted with red making the skin whiter and nullifying stay deep reds. To solve this problems, some productions started using makeup as actors use on the theatre but it carries another problems. The main problem was that they use many layers of makeup and when the actors were recording this makeup ran because of the sweat. At middle twenties the actors used their own makeup but this makes that sometimes the makeup was different from one shot to another. It wasn’t until the arrival of Max Factor and George Westmore that the industry made a big step forward because they started to implement the makeup bases, search new ways to do that fit with the evolution of the cinema and they founded the first makeup departments on Hollywood. An example of how important is a good makeup on a film it is as easy as look the last winners of Oscar makeup awards.  At 2011 - The Wolfman Rick Baker and Dave Elsey. – On this film we can see that the makeup work is much elaborated in order to make a werewolf believable.  At 2012 – The Iron Lady Phyllida Lloyd. – This year the award was for a realistic makeup that gives to Meryl Streep the same appearance as Margaret Thatcher. Dissertation – The Special effects 4.- Consequences of using FX 4.1.- Why use FX? At the first steps of cinema the person who did or recorded films the only thing that they wanted to show is something in movement. With the passage of time some filmmakers realized that they can do much more with that invention, they started filming short films with a little story. When this kind of cinema became more and more popular filmmakers decided to go one step forward and start using some techniques that allow introducing new forms of showing the images. They started using the first effects. The first uses of the effects were because of the necessity of some filmmakers to show things which are impossible like scenes of fantasy, unreal situations, etc. They started thinking that if someone can think of it, it could be done with special effects. Logically on these days some things were impossible to do, but now this sentence is becoming truer every day. Using the computer and a mix of some techniques nowadays it seems that everything could be possible. 4.2.- Social consequences Throughout history there have been many moments or situations in which some people believed that what they were watching was true and real or that because of the producers used effects that film was not be considered as a film, some people think that they have cheated. The effects have been evolving at the same time of cinema so every few years a new or improved effect surprise the audience. This makes that some people think that what he was seeing was real and often they get frightened, some people think that it was impossible but it was great to see it on the screen and some people think that seeing that was a waste of time because it was not real. One example of people who were frightened when they were watching a film was when Edison shows his film The execution of Mary Stuart. On this film it could be seen how they cut the head of Mary. When people saw this scene they get surprised, frightened and some people fainted. As some other arts on the cinema there was who doesn’t understand what he was watching and because of that he refuses it. If we talk about the special effects and obviously the Sci-Fi cinema there are lots of films that are been criticised because of the use of special effects. One of these films was Tron. This film got really bad critics on the newspapers. The Washington Post, The New York Times, Variety, Chicago Sun-Times, all of them said that Tron had an empty plot and the special effects was so poor and used to show the computers in a romantic and glamorous way. After receive this critics The Academy decided not nominate Tron for the special effects award because they think that the use of computers was a cheat. This is one example of one movie which use special effects and was not accepted by the critic and some of his audience. Obviously this is not an isolated case, there were more movies that have been socially misunderstood, but there were movies that the audience accepted and they are considered a great film because of his effects. Dissertation – The Special effects 4.3.- Cinema consequences One of the major consequences that occurred with the creation of special effects was the great contribution they made to science fiction movies. It could be said that science fiction is what it is today thanks to contributions of special effects that throughout the history have given. Logically the first special effects were very rudimentary and meant little in an audiovisual production but over the years, and more in this genre, the effects have become increasingly important to the point of being the most important in many productions which are performed today. Another great consequence that has caused a change in the world of cinema is the possibility of been able to retouch the film in postproduction to fix possible errors, add or remove items and even get a colour in photography that otherwise would be impossible. In the early years of cinema, when it was still in black and white, the most important work done as a special effect was to colouring over some frames of celluloid. A leading figure in Spain and in the European cinema was Segundo de Chomón, who would later work in more techniques of special effects like animation techniques. Many film critics, filmmakers, producers and actors have reached a consensus that the special effects have enriched the movies over the years of coexistence and even today still do. They claim that the special effects enrich the language of film and that because of a large number of scenes that uses special effects get introduced with a greater emphasis because of them. They also share the idea that the special effects help explain a story and thus help the narrative production 4.4.- Conclusions Finally it can be concluded that special effects have meant a breakthrough in the world of cinema though initially society, or a part of it, not accept them or saw them as a kind of cinema to disregard. Like all the advances that have been developed throughout the history of cinema special effects have also changed and have helped to create a new and improved audiovisual language. They have also helped to improve the narrative of some stories in many movies. On the social side the evolution and the consequences that have created the special effects are comparable to the reaction that has a sceptical man of magician. At first he does not believe what he sees, do not understand and therefore despises it for not really give the importance it deserves. Then to see the possibilities that are provided he is surprised and stunned in front of the mage unable to speak until he understands that what matters in this situation is not to understand how to do the trick, what really matters is to relax and enjoy it. With the special effects and the society something similar happens. In the early years of the special effects were so many people who refused because they believe that the special effects were a lie and that it had no courage to do that sort of thing. Later the special effects were improved and conquered many of those who once had reneged on it. And today the special effects have created a world, closely linked to science fiction movies, where what matters in the film are themselves, the special effects. Dissertation – The Special effects 5.- Conclusions By performing this work it has been seen that there are more types of effects than I initially thought it would be. It has been a study of each of the various types of effects that exist today and are classified according to their moment of development. As already discussed in previous sections all effects must have a preproduction and be designed in the preproduction of a movie, TV series, short, etc. but with this classification people can have a clearer idea of when to be the execution of different types of effects and if necessary to take into account any other aspect or effect in order to get an integration as much as possible similar to the effect you want to perform. Besides studying the moment to perform each type of effect I also have done a search and a comparison between the oldest effects, those born around the same time as the film, and modern effects. Contrary to what many people think and what I myself thought at first, there are many oldest effects even today still apply, obviously with some improvements and perhaps some variants of what were once but remain in force in the world of cinema. Really what happened to most of the older effects has not been his disappearance but its relevance to modern times. Today, these effects are still being old but normally are usually associated with other more modern effect or technique has evolved and is controlled by more modern processes. Today their makeup effects, effects that some do not consider themselves as special effects but which I believe are very important in many cases and thanks to them some effects gain credibility on the screen. There are also mechanical effects, motion-based effects of smallscale puppets or scale of some animals or dinosaurs, for example. On the other hand there is also what is known today as the chroma-key, which allows you to put a character, who is recorded in front of a green or blue background, on any other fund or situation by cutting his figure, and even today there are those who already doesn't believe it as a special effect but a process when mounting the effects scenes there are effects that are also created at the time of editing and mounting shots. We can also find the matte shots, which through a mask on the lens produce a similar effect to the above effects, also the optical effects, in which then is done a frame retouching, and digital effects, very accomplished in recent years due to its great potential is bigger every day. There exist all these kinds of effects that can be included in a film production. The productions that are used in most types of effects are productions of science fiction cinema. This is because from the beginning the special effects and the science fiction genre have been very close and have evolved together. Logically science fiction without good special effects would make no sense because you could not create the necessary illusion to catch the public by his admiration or his fear of what is happening. For years the public who saw some of the effects that were performed in such productions were astonished by what it could get, and even today these productions still leaves the opened mouth more than one. But there have been who have rejected this type of film because they think that the use of these effects were a lie, were trap. This is what many thought, because Dissertation – The Special effects they do not understand the effects or it even horrify them to see some effects to think that these effects were real. Therefore we can say that the special effects have by one side acceptance of much of the public who has seen it but also, and like many things in our society, have suffered rejection and boycott in some cases from other sectors of our society. But yet no one can deny that special effects have evolved giving the cinema more credibility and better quality in regards to the visual part. The special effects are closely linked to the genre of science fiction but it is not the only genre on where they are applied. In today's productions is rare not to see any of the aforementioned types of effects applied to it, either simple makeup, a little retouching of plans for a touch darker or brighter or integration of funds or some of the elements in the film planes. 6.- Bibliography Web sites where I found information about the types of effects.  http://www.actiweb.es/fotocine/como_se_hacen_los_efectos_especiales.html  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efectos_especiales Web sites about the history of the effects.  http://www.profesionalesdigitales.es/profesionales/blogs/node/2585  http://www.claqueta.es/articulos/efectos-especiales-en-el-cine.html Web about some effects of specific films.  http://cinemania.es/actualidad/especiales/13430/los-efectos-especiales-detras-de-lascamaras 7.- Filmography Films. In more recent films I have seen the director's commentary.  The execution of Mary Stuart.  A trip to the moon.  The great train robbery.  Jurassic Park.  Gramlins.  Star Wars.  Tron & Tron Legacy.  Young Sherlock Holmes.  The Lord of the Rings.  Avatar.  Transformers.  Iron Man. Dissertation – The Special effects Tv series.  X-Files.  Primeval.  Eureka. Documentaries.  “La ciencia de los efectos especiales” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoVWhJrBlU&NR=1&feature=endscreen  Science at the Movies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- xUzQ0RtsC4&list=PL4F546061AD31B146&index=6 Talks.  TED – Rob Legato: The art of creating awe. - http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_legato_the_art_of_creating_awe.html Locations Pedro and Kim’s table Pedro will be on the left of that table and Kim on the right, nex to the window. Locations Ruben’s office Next to the door there is a white poster, on teh recording day this poster will not be there, the glass will be empty. Locations Locations Hall Project plan Project Overview The project that is going to be done it can be summarized in one sentence. Integration of FX on a live action short film. To do this project the first thing that has to be done is record the action with real actors, so a plot and scripts will be needed to do this part. When the live action is recorded the next step of the project is to edit the recorded scenes to get the final film. Once the final film is done it’s time to put the effects on it. The reason why I want to do all this job is because since I was a child I always wondered how they do this kind of effects and as I was getting older I realized what was behind. The main objectives I want to achieve doing this project are:  Increase my knowledge of FX software like After Effects, Boujou, etc.  Work on the project as a professional project. As said before the project will be divided into 3 parts, preproduction, production and postproduction. On the preproduction the requirements of material are most expensive than on the other parts of the project because on this part I have to create different models of the machine that will appear on the short film. This means that I will have to buy the materials to do it. A part of buy this materials I will have to have on my computer ToonBoom to do all the storyboard before start recording. On the production I will need material to record the action so I need some cameras, lights, microphones, etc. A part of this material I will need the clothes of the characters and some attrezzo to put into the locations. Finally on the postproduction I won’t need any material a part of software to do the editing process and to integrate the effects that I want to show on the film. Project Aim The reason why I’m doing this project is because I want to produce a different short film, a short film that some people may say that is a commercial short film. This is because I think that most of the short films that are made by students at the end of his degree are more experimental or introspective, in my case I want to do something more commercial because I’m influenced by this type of cinema. Project plan The production of this short film will help me to show what can I do by my own to other people and if it’s possible get a job on the FX world. Project Description Project Outline As it has been written before the main phases of the project are only 3. During the production of this project first I will have to do the preproduction, this project plan is part of it, the production and the postproduction. On the preproduction I will think about all the details that have to be considered to be able to do a good production without any problems and I will have to do the models of the machine. On the production I will have to take all the actors to the locations and all the material a part of the camera man who will record most of the short film. On the postproduction I will edit the scenes and put the effects on it. Origins of the Project When I started Audiovisual Media at TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme I didn’t know anything about what I will do on my final project but after these three years I could see different things to do. This knowledge and the interest that I always have had in the special effects of the movies make me decide to do a science fiction short film where the most important part for me is the integration of the effects and, in less importance, the plot, because write plots is interesting for me to. Project Locations During the short film will appear only two main locations. The first location that will be shown to the audience is where the three main characters work. This location will show different aspects of what kind of live have everyone. The second location will be at the same TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme (TCM), because in one scene of the short film a hospital room is needed so I will ask for permission to record on the rooms that students of nursery have to practice. Project Delivery This project will be done only by one person, but in some parts of the project he will need some help from other people because he is part of the three actors that will appear in front of the camera, so it will have to be a camera man who record some scenes, and 2 more actors who act with he. Figure 1 : Project Team Members Name Role Contact Details Sergi Petit Salas Director/Producer [email protected]m Linkages Here in Catalunya there are some companies that work for Hollywood or for Spanish productions doing the FX so this kind of project could link with this type of companies. If the final production has the enough quality it can suppose a chance to get in touch with some companies. Project plan Strategic Fit The project doesn’t fit with any particular strategy because it’s a final project of one student of the university and here it’s difficult to do a short film like the one I want to do and link or fit with any strategy of the city, nation or state. Because of that I will try to take part and contest on different contests of animation short films or short films only. By the moment I will send my project to Animac that is done in Lleida, Catalunya, and to Annecy that takes place every year in Annecy, France. I know that it will be difficult to win something but it’s a nice goal to achieve because it gives to my project another reason why to do it. Project Marketing Strategy Because it’s a short film it’s more difficult to have an outcome that someone can sell as a tangible product but it’s possible to sell the short film by his own recorded on DVD, a part from that outcome another things that can be done to have more outcome are making some posters to promote the short film and later sell this posters as outcome. Marketing Objectives By the way I don’t expect to have any outcome because I’m only just a student and we are all in crisis so I don’t believe anyone will be interested in buy one poster of my short film or by it in DVD. Obviously family and friends it’s possible that buy some things but I know that this won’t be enough to win what I had invested on the project. Marketing Strategy The promotion of the project will be done on the net. Basically I will create a webpage in Facebook where everybody could come inside and see what is going on with the project. A part from that I’m writing a blog on Wordpress.com where I explain what I’m doing, my feelings and the problems and solutions that I have while I’m doing it. These two web pages will link to YouTube where the users and everyone who is interested on my project can watch the trailer and the animatics. In a near future it’s probable that more videos will be uploaded. Market Need As it has been said before in Catalunya there are very companies like NasaFX, Fassman or RecMedia who are specialized in doing special effects for cinema, TV, publicity, and social events. This market reality and my desire of doing something that involves the FX make me take the decision that my project had to be a short film where one of the most important things were the special effects, so I will do a science fiction short film. Project Objectives When I decided to do this project my main objective was to do a professional short film that can say that I’m good enough to work on the FX world. This objective is really important because I think that companies where I ask for a job will look my experience and it’s important to me as well because I take it as a challenge to test my skills. Now I’m developing the project so I can look it in another way and, although my main goal remains the same, I think in other possible objectives like send the project to a contest. Project plan Project Organisation and Management This project will be done by only one person, who it’s me, Sergi Petit. This is the reason why the main tasks are always done by me except the recording of the short film because I want to be one of the main characters and I can’t do the two tasks at the same time. Despite of I will be an actor I will supervise all the recording to be sure that all is how I want for the production. As it can seen on the table there are 8 main task that has to be done to make the project properly. Some of this task are prepared for one person because the project is only for one person, but other task like “Think and prepare the Recording Plan”, “Record” and “Act” has to be managed by different people because on this tasks more than one person will take part on it and it’s necessary to think on his timetables to be sure that everybody who is needed can come to do it. Figure 2 : Project Responsibility Chart Team Members Main Tasks Sergi Petit David Rubio Clara Vallmajor David Martinez 1 Build a model of the machine X 2 Write Plot and the script X 3 Draw the Storyboard X 4 Think and prepare the Recording Plan X C C A 5 Record P X 6 Act X X X 7 Editing Proces X 8 Integration FX X 9 Make some marketing X Team Member Key: Role Symbol Key: X Executes the work D Takes decisions solely or ultimately d Takes decisions jointly or partly P manages work and controls progress C Must be consulted Project plan A Available to advise Project Quality Management Before start doing anything of the project is necessary to know what is required to think how to do the different tasks of the project by the right way and make a list of points to achieve task by task. Once this requirement has known it’s time to start doing the different steps of the project and go checking that everything is complying with the plan. This checking will be done after doing one of the tasks and every night after one day of work to be sure that everything is correctly done. Project Communication Management A part from the teachers who is following and supervising the project the most information of what have to be done and when it’s only important for me and for someone else if I need some help in any moment. The other members of the staff that has to do some tasks have to know where they have to go to do it, when and what they have to do. This information will be delivered to they when this project plan will be finished and when all of them could confirm when they can do it. Project Equipment and Facilities To do this project the main things that I will need are:  Materials to do the model of the machine.  Clothes for the actors.  Camera.  Lights.  Other recording material (tripod, cables, etc). The most part of this material I will take it from the university due to they have a service where the students can take the material that they need to do his own projects. Other material like what I need to do the model I will have to buy and by the moment I don’t know what materials are the most appropriate. Project Workplan Figure 3 : Project Task Schedule Main tasks Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Period 6 Period 7 1 Build a model of the machine X X 2 Write Plot and the script X X 3 Draw the Storyboard X Project plan 4 Think and prepare the Recording Plan X 5 Record X 6 Act X 7 Editing Proces X X X 8 Integration FX X X X 9 Make some marketing X X Figure 4 : Project Milestones Milestone Date Model and clothes December 2012 Script and Story finished December 2012 Record finished Febrary 2013 Project finished July 2013 Financial Management As it has been said on previous points the expenses I will have doing this project will be very small because the huge part of the material that I need to make the recordings will be from the University so I will don’t have to pay for using it. By the moment the only thing that I will need to pay will be the materials to build the model of the machine and probably some clothes for the actors. Because of this expenses will be available for me I will pay from my money and if it’s something that I can’t pay because of his price I will ask for help to family or University or, if it’s necessary, to a bank. Project Funding With my money I will pay everything that has to be paid for doing my project. Project Income & Expenditure Nowadays it’s difficult to take profit of a science fiction short film made by a student so by the moment I don’t expect to have any income of money, a part of the surprise of win anyone of the contest where I will send my project. So basically I will pay and I won’t expect to have my money back. Project plan Risk Management Figure 5 : Project Risk and Control Matrix Significant Risk Area Detail Control Measure Don’t have the actors There is one actor that now is living in Italy and it’s possible that she can stay here to the recording If she can come to the recording I will contact to another actress to do her part. Don’t have a nice weather days to record Have a rainy or cloudy day Change the days of the recording. Have wrong recordings Realize when I’m editing that something it’s recorded wrong If it’s possible solve it with another scene and if not record again. Have problems with the integration Some of the things that I want integrate need a camera tracking and this it’s difficult to do. Watch some video tutorials form internet, ask for some help or try it until I can do it. Exit Strategy Once the project will be finished I will make a copy of all the documents on my PC or on a Hard Disc, so I would be able to change anything on the future, and also save a copy on a DVD. The final document with the short film will be recorded on a DVD as well to everyone who wants to watch it can do it on a DVD player. A part of the places where I will save all my work I believe that I would learn more things about special effects and how to make camera tracking. This knowledge will help me on future projects and also on professional projects that I will have to do on my professional life. The administrative part I think will be the most easiest because I it will be the smallest part of my project so I don’t think it will suppose a difficult. Script – English Version 1.- INT.HALL - DAY Early in the morning, Pedro arrives to the studio and with every new step he looks to his mates, who are working with his projects. He is greeting everyone, the first is Ruben who is drawing some plans of a building and is trying some materials for his model. PEDRO ¿Que hay Ruben? ¿Aun con el edificio ese tan importante? RUBEN Pues ya ves, no hay quien tenga una buena idea. After Pedro looks at Kim. She is putting a new canvas to start painting for his next exposition. KIM ¿Estas son horas de llegar? PEDRO (entre risas) Que quieres, hay trafico. Pedro arrives to his table, he sits and after tidying up some papers he turns on his PC. Few seconds after a meesage appears on the PC announcing that the deadline of the projects is on 2 days. When he see it he talks to his mates about it and he starts with his own project. PEDRO Chicos, sabeis que tenemos que tener esto acabado dentro de 2 dias ¿no? // POINT OF VIEW SHOT of Pedro 2.- INT.HALL - DAY Now the action is seen as a public and not with the point of view of Pedro. The 3 artists starts with his projects but despite they work hard they always are unhappy with what they done and some times one of them discard his work to start again with something differnt. Time goes bye and anyone has anything good done when Pedro, the writter, decides to take a break and goes to the library, where the old projects are saved, to search for inspiration. (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 2. // OVER-THE-SHOULDER SHOT of Pedro who is writting and erasing what he writes. // OVER-THE-SHOULDER SHOT of Kim whil she is painting. She is trying to paint but she doesn’t like what she paints and start over again. // MID SHOT of Ruben who is looking the materials and the Script – English Version plans. This 3 shots will be used as a temporal ellipses, to show the pass of the time while thay are working. // MID SHOT of Pedro. Is seen that he still doesn’t have any good idea so he decides to stand up and leave the room. 3.- INT. LIBRARY - AFTERNOON Some sunlight still enters by the small windows, everything has dust. Pedro comes to the room and starts looking up something that can help him to write his novel. After looking many books, figures, boxes, etc. he finds a small box. It’s a brown box, full of dust and different to the others, it looks like it was from another age. Full of curiosity Pedro takes the box and after looking it with calm he puts it on the table and he opens the box. Inside is an artefact unknown by Pedro, he takes it, look it and finally put it on his head. When he puts it on his head he feels that the artefact is on and he begins to imagine the story of his novel. After this experience he goes to his table to start again with his novel and he takes the artefact with him. // WIDE SHOT. Is seen how Pedro is walking all over the library searching anything that gives him inspiration. The camera will close the shot until he finds the artefact. // CUT-IN SHOT of the opening drawer where inside is the box. // MEDIUM SHOT. Pedro have the box in his hands, he put inside the table, opens it and take the artefact to wear it. He feels the senstaion, unwears it, he puts another time inside the box and goes to his table. 3. 4.- INT.HALL - AFTERNOON (PEDRO’S TABLE) Pedro is sitting on his table, in front of his computer with a blank page. He looks to both sides to know what his mates are doing and he decides to take the artefact and use it. When he weas the artefact he experience a sense of emptiness that gives him the hability to concentrate only on the idea that really is important. Pedro is now able to write the story that he really is thinking because he doesn’t have any distraction. // 3/4 SHOT (between WS and MS). Pedro is sitting on his chair and he wears the artefact.He begins to write the novel and in a few minutes he has the novel finished. // CLOSE UP SHOT of the Computer. This shot will open until Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications 1.- INT.VESTIBULO - DIA Primera hora de la mañana, Pedro entra a la oficina y poco a poco va observando como sus compañeros ya han llegado y estan ya trabajando con sus proyectos. Sin dejar de andar hacia su mesa los va saludando, primero saluda a Ruben, quien esta dibujando los planos de una edificio y provando algunos materiales para su maqueta. PEDRO ¿Que hay Ruben? ¿Aun con el edificio ese tan importante? RUBEN Pues ya ves, no hay quien tenga una buena idea. Luego Pedro saluda a Kim, la que esta cambiando de lienzo para empezar de nuevo otra pintura para su proxima exposición. KIM ¿Estas son horas de llegar? PEDRO (entre risas) Que quieres, hay trafico. Pedro llega por fin a su mesa, se sienta y despues de poner agunos papeles en orden eniende su ordenador. Al hacerlo un mensaje aparece por encima de toto avisando que la fecha limite para entregar los proyectos es dentro de 2 dias. Al verlo lo comenta con sus compañeros la fecha y se pone a trabajar en su libro. PEDRO Chicos, sabeis que tenemos que tener esto acabado dentro de 2 dias ¿no? // PLANO SUBJETIVO Pedro 2.- INT.VESTIBULO - DIA Se deja de ver la acción desde el punto de vista de Pedro para verla como expectador. Los tres artistas se ponen a trabajar en sus proyectos pero por mucho que hacen no avanzan e incluso en algun caso deshechan todo el trabajo para empezar nuevamente de zero. Las horas pasan y ninguno de los tres tiene ningun avance significativo cuando Pedro, el escritor, decide tomarse un respiro y bajar al sotano a buscar entre proyectos mas antiguos algo que le sirva de inspiración. (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 2. // PLANO ESCORZO de Pedro, quien esta escriviendo y borrando todo lo que esrive. // PLANO ESCROZO de Kim mientras pinta. Intenta pintar pero lo que le sale no le gusta y vuelve a empezar. // PLANO MEDIO FRONTAL de Ruben, quien esta mirando los Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications materiales y los planos. // PLANO MEDIO de Pedro. Se ve como continua sin tener ninguna buena idea hasta que decide levantarse e irse. 3.- INT. SOTANO - TARDE Entran algunso rayos de sol aun por las pequeñas ventanas que hay en la pared, todo esta lleno de polvo. Pedro entra en la habitación y empieza a buscar entre todo lo que encuentra algo que le pueda servir como inspiración para su nueva novela. Despues de mirar i mirar entre libros, figuras, cajas, etc. encuentra una cajita relativamente pequeña. Es una caja marron, llena de polvo y diferente a las demas cajas, parece de otra epoca. Con curiosidad Pedro la coje y empieza a mirarla hasta que por fin la deja encima de un mueble y la abre. En su interior se encuentra un artefacto desconocido para Pedro, este lo coje y lo examina hasta que comprende que por su forma parece ir puesto en la cabeza. Al ponerselo nota como se activa y como empieza a imaginar la historia para su novela. Al experimentar esta sensacion se lo quita y sube a su mesa para empezar a escrivir la novela. // PLANO GENERAL. Se ve como pedro esta recorriendo las estanterias en busca de alguna cosa que le pueda servir de inspiración. La camara va cerrando plano hasta que Pedro encuentra la caja que contiene el artefacto. // PLANO DETALLE del cajón abriendose donde dentro esta la caja, que posteriormente Pedro coje. // PLANO MEDIO. Se ve como Pedro tiene la caja en sus manos, la deja sobre un mueble, la abre y de su interior saca el artefacto que posteriomente se pone. Experimenta la sensación. Se lo vuelve a quitar, lo guarda dentro de la caja y se va dirección al estudio. 3. 4.- INT.VESTIBULO - TARDE (MESA PEDRO) Pedro esta sentado en su mesa, delante del ordenador con la pagina en blanco. Mira hacia ambos lados para ver que estan haciendo sus compañeros y decide coger el artefacto que ha encontrado en el sotano y ponerselo. Al ponerselo Pedro experimenta una sensación de vacio interior que a la vez le proporciona la habilidad de centrarse solo en la idea que realmente importa. Pedro es capaz ahora de escrivir la historia que realmente esta pensando sin tener ninguna distracción. // PLANO 3/4 FRONTAL de Pedro. Pedro se sienta en su silla y se pone el artefacto. Comienza a escrivir la novela y en 10min ya la tiene acabada. Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications // PRIMER PLANO ORDENADOR --> PLANO 3/4 Este plano empieza desde un PP y se va abriendo a un plano 3/4 para ver como los dedos de Pedro van escriviendo la novela. // P. 3/4 FRONTAL. Vuelta al plano anterior de Pedro para acabar la escena. 5.- INT.DESPACHO KIM - TARDE En el suelo varios lienzos a medio pintar y algunos de ellos arrugados. Kim esta sentada mirando por la ventana bebiendo un poco de agua cuando Pedro se acerca a ella. PEDRO ¿como va la pintura? KIM Solo tienes que mirar, un desastre. PEDRO Ni una buena idea que plasmar ¿verdd? KIM (mostrandose decepcionada) Aver si mirando por la ventana consigo un poco de inspiración, porque esto es frustrante. PEDRO Creo que tengo algo que puede ayudarte. KIM No te ofendas pero tu escrives, no se si puedes ayudarme a pintar. (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 4. PEDRO Yo no, esto. Kim se gira hacia Pedro para ver que es lo que le ofrece. Pedro esta de pie extendiendole el artefacto. KIM Que es? PEDRO ¿Confias en mi? Pruevalo. En ese momento Kim se levanta y coge el artefacto, Pedro le ayuda a ponerselo en la cabeza. Al ponerselo se ve como Kim se queda quieta unos instantes delante del lienzo en blanco y con tan solo mover su cabeza este se empieza a pintar como si de una impresora se tratara. Pasada media hora Kim por fin ha acabado el cuadro que tenia que pintar, se quita el artefacto y se queda asombrada de la pintura que ha realizado. KIM Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications Pedro, tenias razon. Es lo que tenia en mente pero no era capaz de plasmar. Despues de agradecerle a Pedro su ayuda deciden ir los dos a dejarle el artefacto a Ruben para que él tambien pueda terminar su proyecto. // PLANO GENERAL. Los dos artistas estan hablando. // PLANO MEDIO de KIM. Cuando esta coje el artefacto. // PG 6.- INT.DESPACHO RUBEN - TARDE Los dos artistas entran en el despacho de Ruben y este los mira con cara de desesperación para pedirles ayuda. RUBEN Decidme que teneis alguna buena idea porque todas las que pienso no hay manera de hacerlas realidad. KIM Creo que tenemos algo mejor. (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 5. RUBEN ¿Un becario? PEDRO No, esto. Solo pontelo y piensa en una de esas ideas que no te salen. Ruben coge el artefacto que Pedro le da y sigue sus instrucciones. Se pone delante de los planos y de la maqueta que tiene que realizar y aunque aparentemente parece estar en un estado de trance su cuerpo empieza a construir la maqueta del edificio mientras que en se dibujan los planos a medida que se construye la maqueta. Pedro y Kim deciden dejarlo trabajar y se van a sus respectivas mesas para empezar a recoger y irse para casa. Pasan los minutos y los dos terminan de recoger sus cosas, Ruben ha acabado ya su maquesta y sus planos y esta trabajando con su ordenador mientras sus compañeros se marchan para casa. PEDRO Ruben, nosotros nos vamos para casa. RUBEN Vale. Ya cerrare yo, no os preocupeis. // PLANO AMERICANO - GENERAL. Se ve como Ruben esta trabajando y por detras de el sus compañeros entran por la puerta. // PLANO MEDIO. Cuando Ruben se pone el artefacto. --- Fundido a negro --- Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications 7.- INT.DESPACHO RUBEN - NOCHE Todos sus compañeros de trabajo se han ido a casa y Ruben sigue en su despacho contemplando con cara de avaricia el artefacto que rato antes Pedro y Kim le han prestado para realizar su proyecto. Despues de observarlo detenidamente se lo vuelve a poner y realizando el mismo proceso que con la maqueta que ha construido anteriormente empieza a moldear un objecto. En pocos segundos se puede ver como el moldeado a cobrado la forma de un billete de 500C. En ese instante Ruben recupera la consciencia y deja entrever una sonrisa un tanto malevola. // PLANO MEDIO RUBEN. 6. 8.- INT.DESPACHO RUBEN - DIA Al dia siguiente Ruben se encuentra en su despacho cuando Kim llega al estudio. Entra a saludarle. KIM Buenos dias Ruben. RUBEN Buenas. KIM (cortando a Ruben) ¿Y todo esto que tienes en la mesa? RUBEN La imaginación que es muy potente. Kim se queda extrañada pero no pregunta, decide cerrar la puerta al ver que Ruben se muestra un tanto distante y se va hacia su propio despacho para seguir con su propio proyecto. // PG. 9.- INT.VESTIBULO - DIA Pedro es el ultimo en llegar al estudio. Nada mas llegar deja sus cosas en su mesa y se queda extrañado al ver una debil luz azul que proviene del despacho de Ruben. Kim al verle llegar se dirige a él. PEDRO Oye, ¿tu sabes que esta pasando ahi dentro? KIM Creo que Ruben ha estado utilizando el artefacto toda la noche. PEDRO ¿Y para que? KIM Creo que para nada bueno. Los dos se dirigen hacia el despacho de Ruben e intentan entrar en el pero la puerta esta cerrada. A traves de los cristales se puede ver como Ruben esta usando la maquina y por tanto no puede responder a sus llamadas. Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications El despacho de Ruben se ve lleno de billetes, relojes, mobiles, joyas, esculturas y de mas objetos de valor. Kim y Pedro siguen fuera en el vestibulo y se dan cuenta que a (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 7. cada nuevo objecto que Ruben hace su velocidad aumenta y su estado se deteriora. Ruben empieza a sudar, a mostrar sintomas de cansancio y su expresion facial muestra cada vez mas dolor. KIM Parece que esta perdiendo el control de lo que hace! Hay que entrar y quitarle esa maquina de la cabeza! PEDRO Si se la quitamos asi como asi le podriamos dañar el cerebro. Mientras pensamos que hacer voy a buscar las llaves de la puerta. KIM Esta bien, pero date prisa! // PG. // PLANO AMERICANO de los dos artistas de espaldas. Se ve el interior del despacho a través del vidrio y de los dos artistas. // PG. 10.- INT.DESPACHO RUBEN - DIA Cada vez hay más y más objetos encima la mesa y Ruben cada vez esta mas cansado. Por el ventanal se ve como Pedro y Kim estan intentando abrir la puerta con las llaves que Pedro ha ido a buscar. Pocos segundos despues estos consiguen entrar. PEDRO Vale, y ahora ¿como lo paramos? KIM ¿Como dijiste que funconaba la maquina esta? PEDRO Parece ser que hace realidad tus ideas. Mientras hablan entre si los dos se van moviendo de un lado al otro del despacho pensando en una posible solucion para el problema. KIM (se ha quedad mirando fijamente a un enchife) (MÉS) Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 8. KIM (continuació) ¿Y si lo sobrecargamos? PEDRO ¿como? KIM Dices que hace realidad tus ideas... pues demosle ideas hasta que no pueda procesarlas todas. PEDRO Nose si dara resultado... ademas podriamos dañarle a él. KIM ¡¿Se te ocurre algo mejor?! Los dos artistas se acercan a Ruben y empiezan a gritarle ideas. PEDRO Raton! Paraguas! Bota! Cartera! Ventana! Disco! KIM Nieve! Hielo! Botella! Mesa! Gorra! Boli! PEDRO Brazalete! Ordenador! Coche! Estadio! Avión! KIM Amor! Felicidad! Cariño! Ternura! A medida que sus compañeros le van diciendo ideas Ruben empieza a realizarlas cada vez tan rapido hasta que finalmente el artefacto falla y el cae desmayado al suelo. // PG. // PRIMER PLANO de los 2 (Pedro y Kim). // PM de Ruben. // PG. Pedro y Kim empiezan a gritarle ideas a Ruben. 9. 11.- INT. HABITACION HOSPITAL - MEDIODIA Ha pasado un mes desde el incidente en el despacho, Ruben esta en coma en el hospital y Pedro lo visita cada dia despues de salir de trabajar. Por fin Ruben despierta, abre los ojos lentamente y balbucea algunas palabras. RUBEN ¿Que...? ¿Que me ha pasado? PEDRO Ruben, por fin despiertas! ¿Estas bien? RUBEN ¿Donde estoy? PEDRO Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications Estas en el hospital. Abusaste de esa maquina y sufriste un accidente por su culpa. Llevas un mes en coma. PEDRO (deja unos instantes de silencio) ¿Recuerdas algo? RUBEN Lo ultimo que recuerdo es mi mesa llena de cosas y a Kim diciendome buenos dias. (mostrando sintomas de dolor al intentar recordar mas) Y nada mas... PEDRO En cuanto salgas de aqui tienes que deshacerte de la maquina. Pero de momento recuperate. Pedro se levanta, llama a la enfermera y se marcha de la habitación. Seguidamente se ve como Pedro sale del hospital y se dirige a su coche por medio de la calle. // PG. (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 10. // PP de los dos, en especial de Ruben. --- Fundido a negro --- 12.- INT.DESPACHO RUBEN - NOCHE Ha pasado una semana desde que Ruben volvio del coma. Se encuntra otra vez en el lugar de los hechos, a su mente vienen pequeños recuerdos de esa noche. En la mesa hay algunos papeles sueltos, el ordenador, unos rollos y la maquina que le causó todo esto. Él la coge y se queda unos minutos inspeccionandola y recordando todo lo que hizo con ella. Mientras esta pensando en todo eso una voz lo devuelve a la realidad. KIM Me alegra volver a verte por aquí, aunque espero que no sea para trabajar eh! RUBEN Solo he venido para ver si podia recordar algo de lo que paso. KIM Y a deshacerte de eso ¿verdad? RUBEN (contrariado pero evasivo) Claro, claro. No quiero volver a Script – Spanish Version with technical specifications tener problemas con ella. // PM de Ruben. // PG en cuanto aparece Kim. 13.- EXT. CALLE - NOCHE Ruben sale del estudio. En sus manos lleva el artefacto. Se dirige a su coche y coge una pequeña bolsa donde pone el artefacto. Entonces se gira y se dirige a un pequeño callejón que hay al lado del estudio, camina un poco hacia dentro del callejón, coge un pequeño cubo de metal que hay en el suelo y tira el artefacto dentro. Se vuelve otra vez hacia la bolsa y saca un paquete pequeño de cerillas y una botella pequeña con la que empieza a rociar el interior del cubo. En ese instante por la entrada del callejón se ve a Kim acercandose a él. Ruben enciende por fin el fuego, recoge su bolsa y se aleja del cubo otra vez hacia el coche. De camino Kim lo coje por los hombros, a modo de abrazo, y los dos se dirigen hacia (CONTINUA) CONTINUACIÓ: 11. los coches. En ese momento una pequeña luz azul brilla en el interior de la bolsa que Ruben lleva colgada. FIN // PA de Ruben. // PD del fuego. // PG. --- Fundido a negro --- Storyboard trailer Storyboard trailer