Report

Report

This report explains what we did while working together on this project for CRE514 Digital Compositing. The video we created was a “Super Mario Video”.  We both enjoy a combination of video games especially Super Mario and thought we could create something with this thought of idea.  Mainly for the project, we worked together on this project through meetings around the University and at home instead of doing things separately.  We worked out a plan at the beginning for when when we could work together as we felt it would be better to work together throughout the project than on our own.  During the year we had many Skype meetings and met through the holidays to complete the final video together. We worked very well together as we know each other very well, and we mainly agreed on everything that we were going to put in the video.  We both had numerous ideas and needed to look at each in great detail.

We had some issues with animating as both of us didn't have alot of experience.  This was really our only issue.  Everything else worked very well.  There was just a couple of things that took more of our time than others.  When putting our objects and sprites in the video we needed to go through trial and error to make each work with the video.  The test videos we did together went really well and allowed us to see how things work.  We both really enjoyed it and it was giving us more ideas for our final video.

Blogs that relate to us working together

• Group Presentation- Week Six
• Contact Sheet - First idea - Around the Derry City
• Contact Sheet - Sheet - Second idea - Green screen objects
• Test 1- Working with green screen images
• Storyboard- Story- Start- Middle and End
• Tests- Super Mario

Ryan looked online for the Mario gifs and then we decided to test out the Mario gifs together so we can listen to each others ideas. 

• Working together- Getting more footage 
• Background Testing
• Background with object test
• Background with objects and sprites
• Group Presentation- Week Twelve
• Background Contact Sheet
• Background Images

In relation to the background we thought it would be best if we both worked on it.  We both created different backgrounds and added images in and then discussed after what one looked best.  Afterwards we mixed up the images together.   We believe that as a group we worked really well which can be seen in our work.  During the project we rarely had any arguments about what we were going to do which was a big boost as things ran smoother.

• Background test and Final background
• Green screen footage
• Video Sounds

Ryan mainly looked up all the sounds and found the websites to download them, we then disgust what music/sounds we were going to put in the final video, after talking with our lecturer, he give us really good feedback and with the changes made, we added more sounds to the video and made it much better. 

• The Final video- Steps
• Final Video
• Updated Script
• Lecturers Feedback- Final Video- With changes

Things we did on our own

Blogs that relate to Ryan

• Moodboards
• Test- Mario knocks down block
• What’s the story?
• Piskel app- Making things easier
• Creating our own sprites
• Video Script
• Bus Test

Blogs that relate to Lavinia

• Moodboards
• Timeline
• Equipment
• Creating our own sprites
• Rough write up of script