MS2 - Concept and Idea
As a group we decided on our truck commercial being on a Monopoly board. The idea is a truck drives around a monopoly board, knocking over pieces, avoiding die, and kicking up money. I will be CG integration developed in Houdini (besides modeling) and rendered with Arnold. Mason created a mockup of the concept.
The truck we are using is a 2018 Ford F150 Raptor in the color ruby red to contrast the board.
Other assets we decided on are:
Dice
Money Bags
Monopoly Money
Monopoly Houses
Street Sign (Kentucky Ave)
Monopoly Metal Playing Pieces
Shot List
Shot 01
Truck starts on ‘GO’ on Monopoly Board, dice rolling behind the truck.
Camera: High Angle Close-up
Shot 02
Truck drifts around the corner, knocking over houses and other playing pieces.
Camera: Aerial View Shot
Shot 03
Truck comes to a halt in the ‘Free Parking’ space on the board. This is the beauty shot of the sequence.
Camera: Medium Shot
FX Ideas
Shot 1 - Bags of money fall into back of truck (vellum), money is being blown out of the bags using particles, and truck starts to speed forward creating a burnout effect (pyro).
Shot 2(Optional) - wide shot of truck moving across the board while two dice falling in the back and chipping(RBD).
Shot 3 - Truck makes a hard turn creating a intense burnout and dust kickup (pyro), and while truck is turning it runs into several Monopoly houses kicking them out of the way (RBD).
Shot 4 - Truck comes to an abrupt stop, front tires have a burnout and dust with pyro.
Reference for FX
Burnout Reference Videos
Bags Falling into Truck
https://youtu.be/xJD5XVja09k (0:34)
Money Flying (Particles)
https://www.istockphoto.com/video/bills-blast-gm146426165-2771624
Dice (RBD)
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1024293815-slow-motion-two-red-dice-craps-thrown
-other reference can be found in our progress video for this week-
Style Reference
Filming Rough Plates
On Saturday morning, Jan 11, we took some rough plates at Mason’s house to see what angles would be best, and how the DOF would look. Our focal length stayed pretty constantly around 30 - 45. The drop-off in most of our plates are pretty shallow, which we are worried will give our truck too much of a toy car look. But we also want DOF because we want most of the focus on the truck. We also took some moving plates, so I could do some tracking. So far I like shot 1 as a moving camera and shot 2 and 3 are static. We were having difficulty getting the static cameras because we had to film hand held and with how our camera was angled we couldn’t use the tripod. I am currently trying to stabilize the plates, any suggestions would be helpful. The only shot we are all completely agreeing on is the final shot, because we all think that it should finish like a classic car commercial and be a static cam for the beauty shot of the truck.
After we got the shots I did a slap comp of our truck on the board, to see what size we would like. I also did some test tracking on shot 1. I also made a previs video of how we were thinking the truck would drive on the board, which can be seen in our weekly video.