Final Rendering

The last step of our film, rendering, has been a bit of an issue. From computer crashes to incorrect render times to wrong formats, the rendering has been one of the hardest editing challenges to over come as it has no other solution apart from to close the program down and start the render process again. This process can take anywhere from 4 to 9 hours for a single attempt. This was finally achieved through a trial and error system, and the final version took 8 hours to finish rendering! I am happy with the overall film, the music and effects fit with the story and, along with the dialogue, helps build suspense and testion. our green-screen worked well, even if a little ghosting is still present, that wouldn't be solvable without re-filming the entire film with different lighting, which at this stage would be impossible. Everything is now finished on the film, and only pre and post production tasks remain.

Filming!

In the filming stage of our film, we had to remove one of the group members due to lack of attendance. This caused us to change elements of our story, while trying to keep it fairly similar to the original, so that we would have to re-do as little of the coursework as possible. However, this came with a good point, as because we had to re-film all previous work, we could change the lighting to be more green-screen friendly and had enough costumes and props to go around everyone. We are done filming now, and I have finished chroma keying our shots and have added the CGI backgrounds and additions. Most of the sound has been added, and only a few sounds for the weapons are needed before final rendering