Project Photos and Videos

Two Phones were used for recording video and photos :

• Samsung S9 was used primarily due to larger image sensor and sharper quality for main footage and product photos
• An old Iphone 5s was used as a secondary b-roll camera, typically attached in an overhead or side view to get multiple shots of the same action.

Other Equipment :

• Small Flexible Tripod – Allowed for phone to be attached to standing light for overhead time lapses of modelling and sketching
• Regular tripod – long distance time lapses, larger product shots

Lighting and Photo Correction

• Desk Lamp 1 – Articulating  arm made it easy to move this around and was used for side light as it was much softer
• Desk Lamp 2 – This was a lot more of a brighter light so it was used for fill lighting and further away to prevent it casting too hard a shadow
• Both lights were classified at 3000 kelvin which is a warm color temperature
• Photos were taken and then color temperature raised using adobe light room to get correct color accuracy and white balance for the backdrop.
• Most shots had a slight raise in contrast and exposure as well

Before is above, After is Below

I couldn’t get access to large sheets of paper to create the backdrop so two pieces laid under each other had to be used instead. The seam between them was edited out after color correction using photo shop with content-aware fill and spot healing tools.

 

Rendering

Renderings were done to show final design concepts due to lack of access to make a physical high fidelity version.

For these shots I was able to create physically accurate studio lights using area lights assigned to planes to set up 2 and 3 point lighting set ups. Lux was used to measure light intensity as well as kelvin for the color temperature.

Textures were found for the Plywood and Dowel surfaces from creative commons texture websites and adapted to Keyshot’s material node editor. On top of these I added other textures for surface imperfections as labels. For example this wood material had finger prints added as a label assigned to a shiny plastic to give the impression of skin oils from touching.

Video Editing

The final film was edited together using Adobe Premiere allowing for multiple video and audio tracks to be cut and layered over each other easily alongside info-graphics and subtitle cards made in Illustrator.

Audio

Voice overs were recorded separately and put through audacity to increase audio volume.

A silent section was left at the beginning before speaking, this allowed for a background noise sample to be taken for the audio clip and the rest of the clip filtered to remove the noise so that it was clear audio.