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Topic: Movie Ideas?

Hello world! Although I am a brickfilmer, I was thinking of making a real film not with bricks. I don't think it would go into theatres or anything but I would like to do it for fun. So I was thinking of either doing comedy (appropriate for children) or if not comedy then maybe action or adventure. The only problem with action is that I have to add effects to the film. I would probably get the effects from www.Detonationfilms.com but I have windows XP and I don't think Detonationfilms works with XP. So if anyone has any ideas for a movie, or ways to add effects for XP, please reply!

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Re: Movie Ideas?

Shouldn't this have been moved to Pre-Production?
Anyway, I'd recommend checking out the " Post Your Story Ideas thread.

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Re: Movie Ideas?

His question is about special effects, which is why I put it here.

I don't think you quite understand how detonationfilms works, LegoPeoples. You download the clip you want, then use chroma keying (which is like greenscreening, but with any colour) to remove the black. To do this, you'll need a program that can chroma key, so check the Free Software List.

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Re: Movie Ideas?

But I don't have a greenscreen. That's the only problem.

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Re: Movie Ideas?

You can remove the black by setting the layer to "Screen" in your effects program. You can manually mask it from there.

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Re: Movie Ideas?

You don't need a green screen because you are keying a stock clip.

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Re: Movie Ideas?

I am pretty new with brickfilming. I only watched my 1st in September 2010. So now my question is, in post 3 and 5 you say I can remove the black. What black are you talking about? And next buikes sais I am keying a stock clip? What does that mean?

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Re: Movie Ideas?

On the video of the explosion, there is a black background that the muzzle flash sits on. You then remove the background by keying it out or setting the blend type to screen (Blending works best with black, but it sometimes works with other major dark colors).

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Re: Movie Ideas?

On some of the backgrounds for the video of the explosion, it is blue. Why is that?

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Re: Movie Ideas?

You could get ACTION ESSENTIALS 2 those are very realistic if you don't overdose them in the video mini/bigsmile you don't need to have a greenscreen or anything for Action Essentials 2.

OR


There is this Particle Illusion 3.0 software that I also use, there are many effects that can be done with it, but the problem is it's way more cartoony so if you're making a Live Action film then I'd recommend ya Action Essentials 2.


P.S. Both of these work in XP as I happen to own XP and I had no problem when adding those special effects to my footage.

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Re: Movie Ideas?

LegoPeoples37 wrote:

On some of the backgrounds for the video of the explosion, it is blue. Why is that?

Because they felt like it!

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Re: Movie Ideas?

Ok, but I don't need hekp for effects anymore because I bought Sony Vegas HD Movie Studio 9! It's awesome!

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