The beginning of the film starts out with a live action footage with a cut out filter.
Originally this idea was to be in a live action with no filters at all. this was to look like this:
But after thinking about it, artistically it wouldn't work out with the flow.
Here's the location and 'behind the scene' image on that day of filming:
The location was in my garden. For about a year or a good 8 months, we haven't maintained out garden and the set was good enough to mimic what I was after. The character is played by a BOY actor who is a family member.
Composition
The establishing shot of the film was accomplished with a program called Terragen.
Original
Edited:
This shot is just random screengrab of compositing the intro.
Here are the explosion scene Charlie sent me with alpha map enabled:
This is the bazooka smoke trail:
And the result is just wa wa wee waa :D
Sound
Sound was quite easy to put on. Once we acquired our sound source, I used Adobe Audition to synchronize the audio with the footage:
Good thing about Adobe Audion is that you can blend audio clips and play with channels. For example, when we needed to have a sound come in from the right channel and exit from the left channel, we could easily do this without editing the orignal source.
