The following video was my last visual effects project during my brief time at AI Portland. Once again, I was the actor for the project. My laptop made another debut as well. Try not to judge me too harshly for running Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro.

My part was shot in the green screen studio on campus. It was shot with my Canon 5D MKII. In fact, all of it was shot with the 5D. Most of the post-processing was done in Apple Shake, but some of it was created using Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop for video, you say? Yep. I painted out some objects frame by frame in Photoshop. The painting was proving to be too difficult for the paint controls in Shake and still doing it frame by frame anyway. It was easier (and quicker) to export the frames to individual stills and use Photoshop’s advanced tools.

Getting the right keyboard sequence during the green screen recording proved to be more difficult than I thought.  I fell, misstepped, and just plain screwed up a lot.  I ended up jumping around for quite a long time before I had a couple takes that were decent.  I’m guessing it took between 20-30 takes.  You wouldn’t think it would be that hard.

Anyway, here’s the final product, which earned me an ‘A’ in the class.

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