Visual effects Gun sequence pre-production

Visual effects design basis

The sequence will be set in a forest scene to give the look of hunting. A person or animal that will be left to the imagination. As the main focus will be on the shooter.

Reference materials

Primary materials

I went out and took a number of 10 seconds clips to use as the background plate on the sequence. It would add to the realism that will be conveyed if the background moves with the character. The clips show subtle movements from trees moving to leaves falling.

A number of clips were taken to be on the safe side just incase the clip doesn’t work with the shooter. All clips can be found under background in visual effects folder.

The dark bridge images may require more lighting on the character and the gun from the muzzle flash. Some of the clips could be edited to have a foreground to have the character behind the trees. A number of these clips have sounds of the wind, flowing water theres will be kept in the clips. It will help to ad to the realism of the gun shots. After looking through the clips I am leaning towards using the clip of the river running. Also testing a scene with tree’s as a foreground.

Secondary reference Images

These next set of images are sourced from the internet. The basis of forest images usually contain a path and a large quantity of trees. A few of these images could also be used to test the foreground idea of the character peering from behind the tree.

1: This image of the forest looks more magical giving the feeling of something else at the end. Following the primary images it’s brighter and more rich. Not the sort of forest I want to use. But a good reference for lighting attempts.

2: This image is more dark and sinister helped by the slight fog i...

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...he smoke in this scene is subtle again like the other films. It’s quite clear that smoke doesn’t have to be that bright or dense. There was some slight muzzle flashes in this scene it was a little more clear on the frames surrounding this image. I think the care help to show the muzzle flash because of the reflection.

From the research I can see that a gun shot scene can be as crazy as you want it to be. It can have any size flare. To make it realistic though it needs to have subtle muzzle flash and smoke to make it affective.

Initial storyboard idea

The machine gun storyboard will see the actor shooting zombies. They will be conveyed by sound.

For the handgun shot it will be simple and will be just the actor shooting bottles. There will be sounds of glass smashing, as the main focus will be the gun there will be no actual glass bottles.