David Garrett – Steam London – Keying and Greenscreens

Steam London created this music video for international renown violinist David Garrett.  He performs Coldplays Viva La Vida, playing multiple parts at once.  My part in the creation of the video was a small selection of shots.  David Garrett was filmed in front of a green screen multiple times and was to be composited on to digital backgrounds.  I was producing keys and color grades of this footage and placing him on to the template background sequence.  The backgrounds required re-timing and re-positioning of the basic assets and then it was left to me to choose extra details like dust and smoke to add to the shot as I saw fitting.
My attention to detail in the keying can be seen in the video below.  I was able to keep a lot of hair detail, and details in motion blurred areas ( the violin bow in particular) that in other shots of the video were lacking.  I had two days to complete all the shots delivered to me and in every shot I pushed the keys to the limit to gain the best composite possible.  The video below represents half the work I did, the shots tinted red were not my shots.

The next video is a copy of the enitre music video finished.

Modern Warfare 3 – Mission Control Screen

David Sayeed of Animated People arranged for me to interview with a company who deal mostly with computer game motion graphics. My previous work has not really been in that area so to sweeten the interview we decided I would mock up a Modern Warfare 3 style video clip. The clip was used to demonstrate my wide range of skills in After Effects and SynthEyes, I set out to demonstrate that I understood the look and feel for their work and to show my technical knowledge and work methods that allow for swift changes to be made and for shots to be re purposed quickly. The company was very pleased with the extra effort put in, they understood that the framework for the project had been put in place and that with more design time I could easily produce the work they would require.

The video below is a presentation of some of the steps involved in creating the above piece. Please view it in full screen mode for best results.

I also created a pdf document which outlines the important steps I took in creating this clip, you can view it here