Kim E. Wang:
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2896993/
Hello Everyone. I’m Kim E. Wang, I’m a Director and Producer. I founded Digital Art Video Inc. in 1991. As a Director I have embraced different genres enthusiastically – drama, TV commercials, music videos, television series, reality shows, among others. I have produced and directed high-profile TV shows like the Chinese Top Ten Music Awards (Chinese Grammy), eighteen seasons of Miss Chinese Beauty Pageant (broadcasted on TVB USA) and the 2014 CA Model Competition. I’ve also directed and produced a season of the highly successful Hong Kong celebrity-based game show filmed in the USA - "Click or Clash", as well as "Better Living in USA" - a Chinese American home-improvement reality show broadcasted on Sinovision TV. I was the Special FX Supervisor, Digital FX Artist and Colorist of the feature films "The Secret Village", "Kidney and Apple" and "The Tenants". I have produced and directed TV commercials and corporate videos for Novartis, American Express, Deutsche Bank, Chase Bank, Sprint, First American International Bank, FTI and many more. I have won five Communicator Awards (2013, 2015 & 2016), one DV Award (2012) and ten Telly Awards (2008, 2010, 2015, 2016 & 2019). Most recently, I produced a feature documentary about fine chocolate called “Chocolate Road”, currently seeking distribution.
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Hi Kim, How exciting to read your post! You have amazing talent! So here is a question for you--one of my screenplays is written for real actors, but has special effects needed for when they get into an alternative world. How hard is it to film special effects in time of COVID if there is about 20 min. in the other world--how could that be filmed in the time of COVID where the live actors are in the special world. Suppose we shot through zoom one actor but placed them with special effects in the other world, and then shot each actor performing one at a time in their own home with Zoom or similar. Could we put together a feature film that way? Just wondering!
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Hello Ricki,
Thank you for your kind words. You can definitely pull off Digital FX with all the actors in a remote location. Actually some feature films have been produced this way in the past. It can be done for numerous reasons, one of them being that sometimes they could not get all the actors at the same time at the same place.
The production style and equipment depends a lot on the details and accuracy needed along with the right budget. In the bare minimum you would need a blue / green screen set up with decent lighting (actually quite affordable these days). You would also want to plan the shot carefully, if possible get a previz or at least storyboard before you shoot. Need to get an accurate background (actual footage or rendered) and correct lighting to match the scene. You’d want to shoot at the highest possible resolution in a little or uncompressed file. Then you send the file to your digital artist to put it all together. You could send the live feed from your camera and live stream them via Zoom, Google meet or YouTube Live to give direction to your actor.
Feel free to email me and I can give you more details as to how to properly set this up. The short answer to your question is YES, it's possible. But it depends on what exactly you want to achieve. Let’s talk :)
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Kim, pleasure to meet!
John Ellis, Thank you. Nice to meet you too.
Maurice Vaughan, thank you. I'm good and you?
Chocolate Road (2020) - Trailer - Coming Soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLRnAmz4g8