During the past couple of months I have been working on
pre-production for a short film that will be shot in April of 2013. The film is
about a team of Navy SEALs who were deployed in Panama in 1989 during
Operation: Just Cause. With the help of a small crew and cast, we have filmed a
short trailer for the film. The short production went well and we have enough
footage to make a decent trailer. We were able to get a couple guys with
recording arts backgrounds to make a song for the trailer. The biggest problem
that we are facing right now is the lack of an editor. I have some experience
editing with Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer and Adobe After Effects. This
trailer has a lot of action shots where the SEALs are firing their weapons.
These shots require a good deal of visual effects editing such as, muzzle
flashes, shell ejections, dust, and color correction.
I have been using Video Copilot as a resource to learn how
to make these gunshots look real. Video Copilot is a website that has tutorials
on how to use After Effect to build a variety of different visual effects. I
had to learn how to create muzzle flashes from scratch with Adobe After
Effects. In one of their
tutorials, they take you step by step and show you how to make it look like a real
weapon is being fired. I found pictures of different muzzle flashes with black
backgrounds online. I learned how to key out, (meaning remove) the background
and manipulate the remaining images in order to create a believable muzzle
flash. I have also been looking at tutorials on how to create shell ejections. I
used one of Freddiew2’s Channel videos called Gun Sound FX and Bullet Shells,
to learn how to animate the shell ejections.
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