[Paul Trunkfield]

Hi, if you don’t have time for a practical method you could probably do this with expressions.

There is a great script called Ease & Wizz over on aescripts.com that with a bit of work might get close to what you are looking for

https://aescripts.com/ease-and-wizz/

Or you can ask over on the expressions forum or look on Dan Ebberts website https://www.motionscript.com/

Hope this helps.

[Paul Trunkfield]

Thank you all very much for your help and guidance. We shall be having some test time at the end of the week so i will try some of your recommendations and report back how i get on. Your help has been very valuable.

[Paul Trunkfield]

Just to follow up – we were going to have a bunk bed in the room but now have decided to just have a single bed as this will cause less lighting problems than with a person sitting on the bottom of a bunk bed.

[Paul Trunkfield]

Hi Todd, thanks for your helpful response.

The scene is going to be a conversation between two prisoners about a certain topic and the room we have to film it will be made up to look like a prison cell with a bed on the left. One person will be sitting on the bottom bunk of the bed to the left (with back to wall) and the other person sitting against the back wall.

We would like the mood for the scene to be naturally lit and there will be some close ups on each person. Neither of the two wear glasses luckily.

I like your idea of using a 1200w HMI bouncing off the ceiling and maybe coupled with a soft on-camera light.

I haven’t used China balls before, can you let me know a little bit about how they work please?

Thanks

[Paul Trunkfield]

My opinion – i would charge 7 days of yours and crews daily rate for shooting, add in the cost of all travel (flights, taxi, vehicle hire etc), the composers fee, your editing fee for the hours spent editing and any extra time for reshooting and changes.

Did you agree to a fee with the client beforehand? I don’t think it matters much whether it will be projected in a casino in las vagas or a kebab shop in London, you charge accordingly to your own companies rates and what you agreed with the client when you submitted your quote.

[Paul Trunkfield]

Brilliant – thanks very much for your help. Works perfectly.

[Paul Trunkfield]

A quick search and found this – might be useful

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/903853#903873

All the best

[Paul Trunkfield]

Hi, using Steves ‘spliting layer’recommendation, why don’t you split your original layer where you want the effect to start and then split the resulting layer where you want the effect to end.
Then only apply your ‘Bad TV 3 weak’ effect to the relevant layer. One piece of advice i have found so valuable is to get into the habit of always naming your layers correctly.

Hope this helps

[Paul Trunkfield]

Another update – i loadted up After Effects 7 first, then Premiere.
Premiere loaded completely but when i chose new project it then crashed with screen going black.
My laptop has 1 gig ram and can handle some After effects work so i can’t imagine its the laptop not having enough power to run it

[Paul Trunkfield]

Great advice everyone – thanks.
To respond to Yikesmikes, it’s to play at a conference and the subjects are talking about the years highs and lows for their business area – hense doing it on a roller coaster. The conference is a yearly event and is normally light-hearted throughout the day so i don’t think it needs to be that realistic and a comedy touch will definately go down well.