Special Effects Commentary

Intro-

Hello, my name is Shae Mahony and I am head of Special Effects for “The Locker”.

Scene 1-

·      For first scene, had to do special effects for the ‘bang’ sound coming from locker.

·      Basically squiggly lines appearing from where the sound came from.

·      There were two shots where this had to happen.

·      I saved the shots pictures and pasted them into a program called ‘Animation-ish’.

·      Drew the lines emitting from first locker one by one each frame.

·      Saved the finished work as an iMovie.

·      Deleted the shots that I drew on from the original film and pasted the knew movie in it’s place.

·      I then did the same process for the second locker.

Scene 2-

·      I had to animate the play doe man talking n this scene.

·      It was the same process as before but instead of drawing bang marks, I had to draw eyes and a mouth moving to create the words I wanted him to say.

·      I then got my friend, Peta, to be the voice of the play doe man.

·      I would first tell her to say the lines in time with the moving mouth.

·      That would give me a chance to describe what type of voice I wanted her to do (e.g. Higher, lower)

·      It would also help her practice the speech of the mouth movement so that her voice would match it.

·      I would let her practice the words over and over again at the same speed, then quickly change to garageband and record her saying it so it would sound exactly the same and have the perfect speed.

Scene 3-

·      This was the same process for the next scene when the play doe man had to say, “Hmm” and “Aaha!”

·      The breathing at the end of the scene was harder for Peta to time correctly, but she eventually got it.

Scene 4-

·      No special effects were used in this scene.

Scene 5-

·      This scene was easy to edit, partly because it was the last scene edited so I had already got used to the process, and partly because it was very simple.

·      There was no voice acting needed.