Progress

My progress so far is looking good - I'm pretty optimistic. 1:30 out of a shortened down track (2:30ish) is done. Final touches will be reapplying the soon to be reshot green screen footage. I've set it up in my living room which is just long enough to film in. The lighting is also pretty even - I'll try and improve the luminance of the screen with a few well aimed lamps (out of shot/cropped out).
The structure of the MV is good thought - Basically it starts with me walking and crushing tuff - shockwaves creating natural disastrous phenomenons (volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, tsunamis, meteor showers, etc) but as it gets worse, Earth's armies begin to try and stop me - cuts of ammunition being fired and empty shells flying fade in and out, alongside footage of armies moving in coordinated parades (like they're heading in clusters to my destination, chasing and intercepting). Their efforts are feeble though as I just keep going, marching on everything, intensifying the natural disasters until eventually the only things left to symbolise the plateau of the track is explosions and lightning.



What I've impressed myself with is the fact that a lot of the green screened footage that looked bad has been vastly improved, removing a hell of a lot of green "flicker" and noise created by filming at a frame-rate that allowed small bits of motion blur (ideally, you'd want high frame rates so everything stays sharp against the green, keying off nicely).
However the bits that still need to be reshot are the side shots of me walking and the frontal shots. everything else is acceptable, and will be retouched even more when i colour correct the whole project - thinking of adding a subtle spacey glow (this makes it look a lot softer to view, but also hides nasty, scraggly edges). I will also alter white, mid and black levels to clean it up a bit too - Glow + intense black looks great as well as clean and retouched, suiting my un-lo-fi target done completely through final cut.
To hide the naive look of some footage, I decide to add noise, camera shake and altered contrasts as well as a REC symbol, making it seem like a handheld camera - a good excuse for poor quality.



The pyro effects are looking very nice. I will apply extras to a rendered final then re-render so it has a far more dimensional feel and motion to it. I am also contemplating adding a slight amount of motion blur to accentuate speed in which the giant would be traveling (he is walking right across the planet remember). It would neeten up the explosions if I applied the blur to just the highlights too - I'd simply duplicate the footage over itself, luma-key out all the blacks and mid leaving only whites to be motion blurred - similar to long exposure photography.