BSA206 Drugstore Cowboy Review

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Director: Gus Van Sant

I really liked watching this movie. Drug movies are interesting to me as there are so many ways to tell the story differently. The genre gives the director a chance to be creative with shots and scenes that otherwise would not be possible or seem completely out of place in any other type of movie. The story line was typical and predictable, however, The actors and film made it stand out enough to be an interesting movie. 

Bsa227 Compositing, Frame by frame continues...

I have been working on our rotoscoping shot for the past week and can safely say I am halfway through! not sure if I am a hundred percent satisfied with the result as although the strobe lights do significantly cut down my frame number they make the scene very jumpy and a little hard to read, however, given the time restraint I cannot afford to rotoscope over these frames aswell.

Update BSA 227 Compositing

So time is slowly running out and I still haven't locked down a style for our rotoscope scene. I prefer the look of frame by frame painting but it is taking a lot of time to achieve. all other attempts at shortening the time have produced varying results, some of which I like but none compare to traditional rotoscoping style which I will have to have decided on in the next couple of days if I am to leave enough time to finish the project by November 10th.

I have got my speed down to around 2 minutes per frame and can alter the style to cut down the amount of rotoscoping needed, however I still have over 400 frames to paint. that is 800 minutes or approximately 13 hours if I get each frame done in 2 minutes which technically means I could have this done by the end of the week. I am having issues with Lab times as its difficult to get on the computer and actually spend time painting. I think it is worth the effort to achieve the effect we are after, though my painting skills are not great and will be rushed a little we can alter these with different effects to get the really unique style we are after. I will discuss this option with Ben today as we are tackling sounds also this afternoon.