Report for Project 1 -- Compositing
Special Effects
 
First I recorded myself in front of blue Screen, but I couldn't eliminate the blue completely. Instead, I made another movie of me in front of the green screen.  It worked. I used Adobe After Effects to edit the images.
My parents and I went to Lake Laneir during the weekend. I took a camera with me.  There, I thought of a plot -- me being able to sit on the water.
 This is the resulting effect.  There are two layers of movies, one with transparent background.  When i filmed the lake, my camera was not too stable in my hands.  To make myself look better in the middle of the scene i had to keyframe my motion and resize myself as camera zoomed in and out. 
 
I thought that me just sitting on the water will not be enough.  So, I've found a quicktime from Lion King II (disney sight).  I eliminated the blue background and extracted the pieces of movie, where no lions are present. I had the problem with the black lines on the sides of the movie.  To get rid of them I resized the image until no lines were seen in the 320x240 format, rerendered the movie, and after that used it is a layer in the project.
On lake Laneir I also filmed ducks swimming.  I decided to make the bird from the Lion King get scared of ducks.  To obtain that effect I used the lake movie as a background.  To make the motion of the bird more realistic, i keyframed its motion and resized the bird as it flies.
To make the bird fit better into the scene, i changed the gamma component of the blue in the image of the bird. It made the bird much more suitable to the scene.  I also wanted to add the sound, but it took too much space, and i had to extract it. 

My final file is called AnnaShleyfman.avi.