Thursday, 5th November
At 7:10 am on the way to school I decided to shoot a test shot of the car scene. I had to wait for the Burj Khalifa to be seen through the window to film. Once I could see it I recorded the first shot, but it didn’t save so I reshot it but without the building in the background. I also did not have my actor with me as his hand was injured. So, while editing I did the color effect around where he would have been. I had started the editing once I had reached school, which was around 7:30.
On the same day, after school, my friends and I went to Souq extra to film the final scene of the advert. This wasn’t a test shot. We all had ordered the food but because of the pandemic we couldn’t sit at the tables in the mall, so we went into the KFC in the mall and ate there. To actually film I told them to act normally and so I would randomly take out my phone and start filming every time I thought something funny would come up so that I could get them smiling and laughing. Towards the end I also had one of them look like they were messaging their mom. I would then edit the messages into the advert later.
The week between the 5th and the 12th of November
I started organizing and putting together the clips that I would be using in Davinci Resolve. I also started creating the messaging UI in blender and putting it together in Hitfilm Express. I had also decided to change the car and classroom scenes based on the feedback that I had gotten from my peers as I hadn’t yet filmed these 2 scenes.
Thursday, 12th November
I had filmed the classroom scene with the students in my class. All I needed from them was to enter the classroom. I also continued to create the messaging UI as I forgot to render the messages with a transparent background so I had to re-render them with a blue background so that I could blue screen the background to be transparent. I also had to mask out and keyframe each message so that it would look like he was messaging someone.
Monday, 23rd November
I finished editing the classroom scene and started putting together the last scene while I was at school. At home I created the end screen in blender, animated whatever needed to be animated and rendered it out.
Tuesday, 24th November
At school I put the end graphic at the end of the advert and rendered it out in school. At home I downloaded the default sound library for both DaVinci resolve and for garage band so that I could use some of those sound effects from there in the advertisement then added sound effects and changed some of the audio levels exported the whole video from davinci resolve to continue working on it in hitfilm express.
Wednesday, 25th November
At home I put the advert into hitfilm express and created a new composite shot which makes putting effects on clips easier. I started by separating each of the scenes by cutting them. I locked the first scene so that I wouldn’t accidentally make changes to it. I color graded the second scene and when I finished color grading it I duplicated the clip and made it black and white by turning down the saturation. I then masked the windows of the first clip so that they would be in black and white which makes the classroom look like it is already in color and the corridor outside is in black and white. I then repeated the same process for the last scene. And then my app crashed and had to redo the 3rd scene all over again
Thursday 26th November
Just added some final touches like blurring out/removing the logos and other smaller details.
Saturday 19th December
Filmed the beginning car scene with my brother and my dad. I also asked my brother to wear his PE kit instead of his normal uniform because it had more color. After filming i started editing it into the advert that I had already created. All i did was order the clips over the old one and adjust the speed of a few of them.
Sunday 20th December
I color graded the clips to make the colors pop out more. I also decided to add a warm tint because Dubai is usually very hot even though they were in a car. I also started to redesign the log
Sunday 21st December
I color graded the clips to make the colors pop out more. I also decided to add a warm tint because Dubai is usually very hot even though they were in a car. I also started to redesign the logo in blender because I felt that there was too much going on and i wanted to give it a more minimal look.
Sunday 3rd January
I started doing the B/W and color masking and keyframing on the car scene. As I was doing it I realized I could try duplicating the clip and resize the mask to create a border around the mask which I would then change the hue of to make it seem like the color is forming around the person smiling instead of just making it appear. I tried on just on one clip to see if it would work.
Monday 4th January
Did the hue masking on most of the other clips. Masked the windows on the cars to keep the outside of the car in B/W. I also started to decide on 1 or 2 other clips that I could use of my friends eating.
Thursday 7th January
smaller corrections like retiming certain areas to match the music and continuing the minimal logo animation.
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