Behind the scenes

A short behind the scenes video from our shoot, showing how the live footage looks before it has been edited in after effects

Day of shooting

Behind the scenes shots -
Footage we shot today involving green screen and props, mixing together different gels in order to create a saliva and acid effect for the Alien.

 

 

 

Alien teeth attempt

My attempt at making the teeth for the Alien Xenomorph, hopefully once edited the final shot will look a lot better -



Fake saliva will be added once shooting

Creating the Alien Xenomorph

From our storyboard there is a shot of the Alien Xenomorph's upper teeth, showing too much of the Alien would become too time consuming and distract from the realistic element. By focusing on the hissing and snarling teeth less of the creature is shown and therefore leaves the rest to the audience's imaginations. I have looked into the different ways of building the Aliens teeth and the front of it's head, it was suggested that we buy a figure of the Alien but a realistic looking figure would be too expensive for the part we needed to show.

Reference for building your own Xenomorph
http://www.instructables.com/id/Alien-Xenomorph-costume/

Picture from the above site.

I have built the upper teeth by moulding plasticine over a plastic cast similar to the picture below, followed by painting the teeth to create the silver matalic texture. The head is made with plastic and may need some further moulding or additional plasticine to create a smooth texture, as I have layered the base with cardboard for now.

Story boards and titles

We propose to create some elements from the original film by using self built props and green screen effects, our project is mixed with motion graphics and live footage to blend together the realistic feel that the film has, while also including the sci-fi futuristic element within it.


Our production work, titles and storyboards.


http://www.youtube.com/user/mrlloydbryant - Our Alien titles by Lloyd Bryant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFhL7WSM8NA - Alien storyboard by Hannah Kirkman

Alien introduction

For our motion graphics project we have chosen to re-create the title sequence from Alien, incorporating animation effects with live action footage. Alien is a sci-fi horror film directed by Ridley Scott with the screen play written by Dan O' Bannon, David Giler (uncredited), and Walter Hill (uncredited). The original idea for Alien was thought up by Dan O' Bannon and Ronald Shusett, using inspiration and artwork from Chris Foss, H. R. Giger, and Jean "Moebius" Giraud, to create the terrifying yet beautiful visuals, these visuals within the creature/set design have followed the film right into it's sequels.


Our starting point:
Videos that inspired us and the original title sequences from the Alien series.
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/alien/  - Alien original title sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2w0ZnPRwCA - student title re-creation
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/alien3/ - Alien 3 original title sequence

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)