How to Make Your Film Look Cinematic When Your Lighting Setup is Less Than Ideal

The best way to make your films looks cinematic is lighting but what if you don't have the correct lights and set up?  There is ways around not having lights. one of the best ways to have correct lighting is to use natural light. your scene should show emotion based on what the film I on, like a dark ally for a creepy feeling in you film or a field full of flowers for a soft joyful feeling. colors play a huge art in making your film look cinematic. Highlighting a certain object in the back ground can show emphasis on an object with a meaning or make your character stand out so your eyes naturally focus in them.

This article was by far not my favorite, lighting isn't my favorite subject but I do agree with making your back ground seam interesting and have it be able to set the mood for the film. it wouldn't make sense having a scary movie shot in soft happy lighting, it only makes sense to set the mood before filming.

How 3D Printers are Changing Filmmaking

Stop motion, a form of animation that I really love, one of my favorite movies has to be Coroline. 3d printers have been very popular the last few years, and have been showing up in schools and colleges. But did you know that 3d printing can be used for stop motion animation? LAIKA entertainment's 2012 feature paranorman was one of the first stop motion animation movies to use different 3d printed elements. LAIKA has been working very hard to make stop motion easier for animators. they call this process "replacement animation" with is like swapping out different facial expressions, like customizing a character in a game. The face just kind of pops out to replace it with another expression. LAIKA has revolutionized the process by employing 3D printers to create these various facial expressions and limbs in motion. unfortunately its not quit that simple. The team first has to model the character by hand with real materials to keep there signature polished look. After this hand made model is created, it tis then scanned by a 3d scanner to make sure the three dimensional expressions are suited to 3D printing. The entire animation has to be perfectly planned out before any 3d printing is done.

I really loved reading about this, stop motion animations is some thing I would love to see more of, I think there really fascinating and to see that there are coming up with more ways to make it easier is amazing. I hope more people will get into making professional stop motion animations with these 3d printers. it was also really amazing to see how they actually work, we have one in my high school that I got to see a couple years ago with my digital photography teacher. we got to see one in action and hold the end results on the villa fieldtrip earlier in the year. digital printers will hopefull make our lives easier in the near future.

Weekly review 1/18/16-1/24/16

Week in review-   This week was a short week, with Monday being off for martin Luther king jr day. Tuesday was a work day and Wednesday our documentary was due, this came up super quick. Thursday we had a pretty long quiz on video techniques, which I don't think I did to well on. Friday there was a lighting demo that I missed because of a stupid stomach that's been going around. I honestly don't think I've ever puked so much in one day.

Some thing i learned-  Waiting until last minuet to change your idea for a huge project is not a good idea. prep work is some thing that really needs to be thought out in advance, it makes things so much easier.

Some thing i want to learn-  how to mange my time better, I tend to wait until last minuet to finish things or come up with a better idea and it sets me way behind.

Some thing that made me happy- finally being done with this documentary, I had so many problems with this project I'm just glad to be done with it.

Some thing that frustrated me-  I've had sooooo much home work this week end, Monday is the end of the semester for Lockport and all teachers give you a bunch of things that are due right at the end. I have honestly spent the last six hours doing home work. 

Link of interest-   http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm  I know a lot of people are doing there lass completion on sleep deprivation, this link has 40 pretty interesting things about sleep.