Story Board
Everyone in this world, I guess, will have a kind of eerie feeling when they are left alone in a room or a place. It is this knot that made Vinay and me to plot the storyboard for this movie.
Here
is the plot. A guy sitting in a room, working on his assignment(probably
Special Effects) feels as if someone is closely watching him. He
tries to look around to make sure that no one is there in the room
except him. But in our movie, we are making a monalisa poster hanging on
the wall do the tricks for us. The monalisa image turns into a weird
ghost like image, does some silly actions and changes back to original
when this guy looks at it.
Story Board
Actors
Script
: Raja and Vinay
Hero
: Vinay
Photography
: Raja
Stabilization :
Vinay
Morphing
: Raja
Special Effects :
Vinay and Raja
Raw
Images
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Implementation
We shot a film sequence with Vinay sitting in front of a table in a room reading his notes. Since we want to do the morph on a Monalisa picture which we didn't have, we thought of composting the morphing sequence over the shot movie. So we assumed as if Monalisa picture was hangin' over Vinay's head. We put in cross points at high frequency transitions on the wall, with a thought of stabilization in mind. The shot sequence was a bit shaky. We stabilized the video using the cross points which we had already fixed on the wall for this purpose. After stablization, the movie was stable.
Monalisa image was dissolved to get the source morph image and then morphing was done on the source image to get the destination image. Finally the destination image was again dissolved back to monalisa.
Since
we shot the movie with camera a bit tilted, we had problems in compositing
the monalisa image. We had to do a lot of 3D transformations to get the
image sink with the movie. We also used blur and crop operations to get
the the correct image size and correct color and brightness relative to
the movie sequence.
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We have two versions of the movie, the first one with little artifacts seen around the image and the second one with no aritifacts.
Here we go..... to watch the final movie.
1. AVI format (with artifacts) ( 28 MB)
2. AVI
format (with no artifacts) (28 MB)
MPEG
- compressed format (with no artifacts) (2 MB)