Shooting Myself

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed May 21, 2003 10:52 pm

I followed your tutorial on gun flashes and i am running 6.5 and no preview window shows?? Can you fix this?

BrownCowStudios · Post by **BrownCowStudios** » Thu May 22, 2003 8:58 pm

Try rendering the clip...

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri May 23, 2003 5:00 am

No still no good. I have to adjust the flash on the screen and output a still to see where it is in realtion to the film. The do the process over and over again until correctly placed:mad:

Post by **Matt** » Fri May 23, 2003 10:19 pm

Having you tried holding down the ALT key and then dragging the timeline marker left to right ? That tends to actually show stuff in the preview window that it doesn't bother with normally.

ie the bits you are usually interested in previewing !!

judy_hammel · Post by **judy_hammel** » Fri May 23, 2003 11:13 pm

I liked both vids. Probably shooting yourself better than the AK, partially cuz' everything just looked better. I agree with everyone on the AK part. Also, you forgot to give the whole scene a flash like you did in the other one. The actual muzzle flash and the room lighting up a bit is axactly the way I did my movie, and yours looks perfect. Do it for the AK!

ALso, A while ago, i made a lightsaber movie of me fighting myself. Later i wanted to do a gun battle. It was about 5 vs 5 of myself in it. Try something like that, its amazing how real it looks when its done. And how fun it was, i cant seem to find the damn vids though. SHOOT!

Post by **Matt** » Sat May 24, 2003 9:06 am

On the 'shooting myself clip' I used a brief flash of 'brightness' in Premiere to illuminate the whole scene.

In the AK clip I was too lazy. I think this really makes the gun flash look a bit rubbish. When I do it in the film I'll put a bit more effort into it.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:51 am

I like it!

Here is a gun flash frame from The Iteam: Project FUBAR

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun May 25, 2003 12:59 pm

I love the costume and the gun very realistic, the muzzle flash is a bit small though, beef it up dude!:D

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Sun May 25, 2003 1:11 pm

If you added the muzzle flash in Photoshop then give it a little grain for realism.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon May 26, 2003 7:28 am

Hey the gun is a toy one from the local toy store and is grossly under sized:D

Did you like my muscles but:D

GITPF · Post by **GITPF** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:40 am

I liked both of them, the only problems i saw was, like stated before, the lazy recoil, the tiny muzzle flash, you fired WAY too many rounds. The clips hold 40 rounds unless your using a 75 round drum, and the gunshot of the AK is more of a low rumble than a high pitched ripping sound. When you do the real movie, if you want it to look realistic only shoot a 3-5 round burst, pause, another 3-5 round burst, pause, etc for 40 rounds so it looks like your compensating for the awful recoil that comes along when shooting that beast!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:13 am

Hey we don't care about acting around here only th effect itself:P

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:08 pm

You have to worry slightly about the acting, because cr** acting can screw up an effect, especally with guns, because when they look too fake it can actually screw up the whole film.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 3:28 am

Sick Individual Productions prides itself on its bad acting and quality movies!!!!:P

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:15 pm

I'll rephrase their is bad acting, in the I diliver my lines like I can't act, and that is one of the staples of these films, and shouldn't be lost. Then their is acting, in the I have no f-ing clue how to hold a gun, or what it does, and I don't bother to find out. That is what can screw up an effect. I also understand that Matt was just doing a test, and not trying to make it look real, by the way, cool effect.