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Visual Effects 2- The Writing on the Wall Plan

Plot #1:

Scene starts with two people standing far away from each other in an alleyway, with smoke and dust all around them. Person A is yelling ‘don’t pull the pin!’ at the other, holding a gun. Person B is holding a grenade, and replies ‘oh, you want me to pull it?’, and pulls the pin on the grenade. The shot changes to a further away shot of the alleyway, and the grenade explodes, with people flying up from the blast.

Plot #2:

This is the same concept as plot 1, but when the grenade pin is pulled, instead a different effect happens, like confetti, or just smoke, and the two people look confused

Plot #3:

The scene shows a grenade on the floor, with the wall painted with the words ‘Don’t pull the pin’, with ‘Don’t’ being crossed out. A person walks up to the wall and sees the grenade. They look puzzled for a moment, realise what they think they’re supposed to do, and pulls the pin. The shot cuts to a further away shot of the scene, and the grenade explodes, with the person flying up from the blast.

Inspiration from Prompt:

‘The Writing on the Wall’ is an expression that suggests something horrible, or unfortunate is about to occur. We took this prompt and depicted it with someone mishearing the other saying don’t pull the pin on a grenade, with the mistake immediately being shown. Alternatively, the person sees the writing telling them don’t pull the pin, but reads it as pull the pin, and does it

Visual Effects:

The opening shot of the alleyway can have smoke and dust effects, as well as colour grading and audio of gunshots and yelling.

The shot of the explosion occurring will have the explosion effect, as well as dust and rubble falling.

There can also be keying, with having the person being blown away by the explosion. This would be done through filming the person falling back on a green screen, and keying them into the scene

The scenes will all be shot at a single location with several camera angles, with the additional effects enhancing the scene, and some additional green screen elements

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Person holding a gun in an alleyway yelling 'don't pull the pin'

Person holding a grenade far away says 'oh, so you want me to pull it?' and pulls the pin on the grenade

Shot cuts to a far away shot of the alley showing the buildings, and an explosion happens, and you see 2 people fly up in the sky, caught by the explosion

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Person holding a gun in an alleyway yelling 'don't pull the pin'

Person holding a grenade far away says 'oh, so you want me to pull it?' and pulls the pin on the grenade

Shot cuts to a far away shot of the alley showing the buildings, but the grenade doesn't explode, and instead another effect happens like smoke, birds flying, a rainbow, just anything rlly

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Shot of a grenade lying near a wall, with the words 'don't pull the pin' written on the wall. However, the word 'don't is obscured or crossed out

Person walks up to the wall and picks up the grenade, looks at it for a bit, reads the words and pulls the pin on the grenade

Shot cuts to a far away shot of the alley showing the buildings, and an explosion happens

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Person holding a gun in an alleyway yelling 'don't pull the pin'

Person holding a grenade far away says 'oh, so you want me to pull it?' and pulls the pin on the grenade

Shot cuts to a far away shot of the alley showing the buildings, and an explosion happens

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Visual Effects 2- The Writing on the Wall Narrative Plan

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Visual Effects 2- The Writing on the Wall Narrative Plan

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Synopsis:

Two people are in an alleyway, with one holding a grenade. The other is yelling ‘don’t pull the pin!’, but the other person replies ‘oh, you want me to pull it?’ and pulls the pin. The shot cuts, and an explosion is seen either close-up or from a distance.

Narrative:

Scene starts with two people standing far away from each other in an alleyway, with smoke and dust seen and gunshots in the background. The scene occurs during an active conflict. Person A is holding a weapon of some sort, and Person B is holding a grenade.

Person A, who is far away from Person B, and yells ‘Don’t pull the pin!’ at Person B.

The shot changes to a close-up of Person B, who responds ‘Oh, you want me to pull it?’, and pulls the pin on the grenade.

The shot then cuts to a further away angle of the alleyway, and the grenade explosion happens, ending the scene.

Inspiration from Prompt:

‘The Writing on the Wall’ is an expression that suggests something horrible, or unfortunate is about to occur. We took this prompt and depicted it with someone mishearing the other saying don’t pull the pin on a grenade, with the mistake immediately being shown.

Visual Effects:

The opening shot of the alleyway can have smoke and dust effects, as well as colour grading and audio of gunshots and yelling. The shots of the two people talking will likely have no additional effects done to them.

The shot of the explosion occurring will have the explosion effect, as well as dust and rubble falling.

The scenes will all be shot at a single location with several camera angles, with the additional effects enhancing the scene.

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One person is holding a grenade, and the other is yelling 'don't pull the pin!'

The other person looks back and replies 'oh, you want me to pull it?' and pulls it

Once the pin is pulled:
1) Same shot, but an explosion happens
2) Shot cuts to city, with explosion happening
3) Shot cuts to the city on fire after the explosion

VFX: Explosion effect

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Person is walking down the road, looks to the side and sees a sign reading 'watch your step'

As he's reading the sign, he falls into the sewer/hits a sign/gets hit by a train

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Criminal is pointing a gun at poor helpless michael.

Person throws something at the criminal, he looks down and sees that it's a red uno reverse card

When he looks back up, there's blood splatters and michael has the gun

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Murder scene, where there's a body on the ground (with maybe blood and stuff), and the detective walks in

He looks up and sees on the wall, written in blood "you killed him/me"

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Person walks down a (forest/alleyway/road) and sees a sign
He reads the sign, which reads 'don't look behind'

He looks behind him, and is killed in some way

He looks behind him, and sees a person with a wand/sword/gun, and kills the person

VFX: Attacking person effect

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In your group, develop a simple narrative for a moving sequence around the title, 'The Writing on the Wall'

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In your group, develop a simple narrative for a moving sequence around the title, 'The Writing on the Wall'

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The ability to work well collaboratively and independently is central to VFX practice. In the compositing pipeline, live action and cg assets are augmented, cleaned up & integrated to build an artistic vision.

For this assessment, you should draw on the analytical and technical skills developed in the first part of the course. Working with footage you have conceptualised, planned & shot as a group, you will independently integrate technical skills including rotoscoping, keying, tracking and match moving to creatively explore the theme of 'the writing on the wall'.

In developing your 5 second moving image sequence, you should also consider the visual and formal conventions of VFX practice discussed during the course and integrate this knowledge into the composition of your work. You are also encouraged to creatively interpret the assessment theme in relation to the key ideas introduced so far in the course, and to use this as an opportunity to develop your own artistic vision to actively explore concepts and the construction of meaning through VFX practice.