Crowd stock footage and videos for all your VFX filmmaking needs.
The COVID-19 pandemic took all of us by a storm. All the shooting of movies, web series, commercials, documentaries and other broadcasting mediums took a huge toll. Social distancing is a very basic norm to fight Corona virus, which made it impossible to continue the production work. Entire cinema industry has suffered a gigantic loss, due to cancellation of pre-decided schedules and quarantine guidelines.
ActionVFX turned this disaster into an opportunity. With proper planning and strong vision, they came up with the niche concept of ‘Crowd Stock Footage’. These are specially designed stock videos by keeping the regular VFX needs in the mind. Such philosophy made it stand apart in the peer competition.
What is Crowd stock footage and video clips?
It is a virtual crowd, which has been shoot with actual actors and actresses, with respecting and maintaining all SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures).
Such specially designed crowd videos will help all Visual Effects filmmakers to eliminate need of chroma shooting (green / blue screen). They can integrate these video clips in their shooting plate to achieve high quality crowd replication. It’s very cost effective solution. With various Compositing tips and tricks, they can populate their final output with a huge crowd. The actual crowd of stock footage varies as per height, clothes, skin, expressions and positions. This detailing will help a big way for creating realistic Compositing output.
Before shooting, the ActionVFX team has done their proper homework. They consulted many leading Post Production studios and gathered their exact requirements. It helped them for faster shooting of real crowd.
USPs of Crowd Stock Footage by ActionVFX
There are two two categories.
- Sports crowd
- Concert crowd
- For faster Post Production Pipeline (Compositing and rough editing), all the videos are supported by pre-keyed Alpha Channel footages also.
- Color changing of T-shirts are very much easy.
- Various standing and sitting positions were shot from different camera angles, front and back both, to give diversity in the collection.
- Gestures and emotions include enjoying, cheering, sad, clapping, dancing, jumping and many more.
- Various dancing poses has been shot as per slow and fast rhythm.
- Obviously, it is very much cost effective solution for any VFX producer and post production studio.
- As the COVID-19 will take a long time to get resolved, using such HD stock footages is a safe option.
Technical specifications
- Both the categories have 330 clips of crowd plate shootings each. All are filmed with industry standard parameters of VFX.
- 11 actors are used for a huge variations in look and feel.
- The actual crowd has been shot with different 15 angles / perspectives. It will give a huge creative liberty to the Compositor and Director for the virtual crowd replication. They can play a lot with the digital crowd to create convincing final output.
- You will have these HD video stock footage in 2K and 4K resolutions.
- All the video clips are 12-Bit ProRes 4444 at 29.97fps.
How the chroma shooting was executed for these HD VFX stock footage library?
The company followed all rules and regulations, mentioned by the Government. All necessary precautions were taken for on the floor VFX shooting and before it. Talents and entire crew very closely followed all norms like sanitization, social distancing and wearing masks all the time.
As per requirement, all the actors and actresses were invited separately in the green chroma room. They performed various actions and gestures to complement sports and events crowd. At one point of time, only one talent has been screened and shot, under the complete guidance of the technical and management team.
Clothing were chosen smartly, so it will be easy in post production to change the colors.
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