Hey guys I've got another post for you all for another project which I kind of forgot to mention and that is Post Production. What that was was filming live action scenes and combining them with 3D animation. For our project (i.e myself, James Tomkins our leader and Alex Tarry who I worked with before on the Digital Environments course), we did something which was so much fun and that was a modern version of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". For the project we decided to tell one part of this classic comedy, and that was the love quadrangle between Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena. What we did thanks to the National Film School was that we filmed myself and few other actors that we cast for the project (yes I'm in the film I played the role of Lysander and had so much fun doing it), and we filmed in front of a green screen. The background of the project is going to be all CG.
What this modern take on the play does, is that it's set in a bar/club in the west end of London and my character, Lysander is in love with Hermia who his best mate Demetrius is also in love with and Helena is in love with Demetrius but he shows no interest in her what's so ever. Theseus in this version is the head of the bar and is also best mates with Demetrius. Since Demetrius is a selfish bastard and wants Hermia for himself, so he gets Theseus to go tell Lysander to break up with Hermia or Theseus will kill him. Then later though some love drug put into their drinks, both Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena. I know what you're thinking it does sound a little confusing, but read the actual play in order to understand it all and then it may make sense to you.
Anyway though apart from starring in it, I was also responsible for writing the script which was quite a hard challenge, the fact that I was kind of writing it from scratch we weren't using the actual lines from the play because it was kind of a new take on the story. But again we had to stay true to the original material so I had to write lines in the old English language which I though was not an easy thing to do at first but as you go along to writing the thing it just comes to you and it becomes very easy. Now I present to you the script frame by frame.
Apart from the script I also built a table for the club in Maya.
But in the end this was never used.
So there you go, and once I have the final product from my group members, I'll be very happy to show it to you guys, for now laters!
