Brick wall..

In my initial storyboard i had planned for the opening scene to be a sort of social gathering at the female leads house. However since finding it hard to gather enough people to create an effective illusion of a crowd i turned to the idea of creating two layers of film. Either using stills of cut out people overlaid into the film (implying the connotations of the crowd simply having no relevance other than moving background and therefore the attention would be on the lead roles. Even better i had thought i could overlap film and create a similar illusion of people using the same person filmed may times and for long periods so that when in fast motion it looks like a different time in reality compared to the other characters who appear frozen in time. To allow myself to create this layering effect i have purchased Final Cut which is the industry standard editing software with the facility to produce many layers of film/images as well as Chroma key filtering using green screens. And trust me the 1200 odd page manual has set me back slightly.

After researching how to use green screens and set up the appropriate lighting and so on i came across chroma key suits; these are bodysuits which allow you to delete the figure of the person from any background. This would create a much better affect for what i want to create in the beginning of the video. Although things are not that straight forward..this would mean re-filming the footage for the beginning of my film - which is possible however i this means i wouldn't be able to create the illusion of many fast moving people unless i bought many suit which is not possible as they are far too expensive.

And so i have quite literally hit a brick wall. - i feel my only option is to create a new storyboard for the opening scene (the first minute of the video)