Create Your Own “Private Ryan” Movie Shot – Day 1

Michal Jagiello on Feb 20th 2009 with 72 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: After Effects
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 29:38 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

You don’t have to be Steven Spielberg, you don’t need millions of dollars, you don’t even need more than one actor to make your own war movie (well, one shot anyway).
In this two day tutorial series, Michal will show you how to create a realistic war movie shot using only one actor and a camera man.
Day 1 will show you: Color correction, realistic camera shake, and bullets hitting the ground on fast footage.
These are just pointers to lead you on your track to making convincing war movie visual effects.
3… 2… 1… FIRE!

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I'm interested in all aspects of moviemaking: shooting, mixing and camera operating, starting from when the Matrix was released. For 3 years I've been recording some funny, amateur stuff. Now the time has come for more serious work: time for compositing and adding video effects!  

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Discussion 72 Comments

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  1. JR says:
    March 26, 2009 at 5:21 am

    Very nice tutorial, but why still no have raw footage 4 us to easier to follow and learn ?…thz

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  2. yeah haha says:
    April 8, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    Great tut,i like it, but where the source images, can u upload for us to follow, please !

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  3. CgBaran Tuts says:
    April 22, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    Great tutorial thanks

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  4. Dave J says:
    May 2, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Smoke particles! I can see the blobs man! Needs more and quicker dispersal methinks.

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  5. hunter says:
    May 4, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    shot 3 times, took cover, removed clip, put same clip back… :)

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  6. fafkoolec says:
    May 5, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    I człowiek żyje w przeświadczeniu, że w Polsce nie da się zrobić dobrego filmu wojennego… dlaczego? Bo nawet jak ktoś potrafi to się chwali za granicą.
    Bardzo ciekawy tutorial.

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  7. Rajesh says:
    July 1, 2009 at 9:16 am

    Thanks a lot sir .. It helped me a lot , thanks again.

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  8. Snipor says:
    July 23, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    I loved your tutorial! I will use it for my own WWII movie, Thank you very much!

    One thing though, It would be a little better if I was able to download your footages, so i could start practising.

    Thanks,

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  9. juan says:
    July 26, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    more thanks for this tutorial

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  10. anh says:
    September 3, 2009 at 1:14 am

    thank verry good

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  11. Michel says:
    November 5, 2009 at 9:21 am

    WOW! Great work Mike. This just saved me thousands of dollars. Instead of hiring a pyrotechnic crew of three, and materials for squibs, I can hire an intern for cheap.

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  12. Ridha says:
    December 9, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    amazing,,,, smart tutorial

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  13. Jmou says:
    March 8, 2010 at 10:03 am

    Hey, where can i get the RW footage for this tut? it would be great for practice. Has it been released yet ?

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  14. LEONARDO says:
    July 29, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    just one question how can i put my after effect proyect in to a dvd to player on a dvd player

    thank for you aswer

    Reply
  15. Loz says:
    August 10, 2010 at 12:45 pm

    Great Tutorial mate! Fantastic work ;)

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  16. wat? says:
    September 3, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    wat?
    m16 in WWI ?

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  17. Jordy says:
    November 13, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Ít’s maybe a stupid question..
    but i really want to make this.
    But what program do you use?

    Greetz

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  18. JD says:
    June 19, 2011 at 7:45 am

    Whats the name of the font at the beginning?

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  19. juan jamesson says:
    January 27, 2012 at 8:22 am

    I congratulate the truth because they do it well

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