VFX1 - DD1410: Brief 02 Fight and forest sequence, 001 – 1089 First Thoughts

The second piece of footage the Visual Effects assessment involves a fight scene in a forest, naturally this will provide many more challenges than the first piece of footage. If you didn't see the first part of the assessment brief, check out the link below:
http://www.darthspockvfx.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/vfx1-dd1410-brief-01-altar-sequence-001.html
 The footage for this part of brief is below:

Just like the last piece of footage, this one is divided into shots:

Shot One (Frames 0001-0183)

Create hold out matte for the container and separate hold outs for the red glass interior of the container and the man's hand.

Shot Two (Frames 0184-0343)
Create hold out matte for the man staring into the sky: the branch and the red glass interior of the container.
Shot Three ( Frames 0344-0406)
Create hold out matte for container and separate hold outs for the red glass interior of the container and man's hand.
Shot Four (Frames 0407-0476)
Create hold out matte for container and separate hold outs for the red glass interior of the container, the man's hand and the foreground elements.
Shot Five (0477-0585)
Review footage, using judgement to determine if any work is needed or viable.

The remaining shots (frames 0586-1089) consist of a fight sequence: for this section, nothing needs to be done in Nuke, the brief states that for these remaining shots, the compositor needs to decide what effects need should would be best and how they needs to be implemented, giving a brief and simple explanation (using pictures where necessary) of the steps taken take for each of the remaining shots. This part of the assessment will be posted on this blog.

First Thoughts:
Shots one to five seem fairly simple, it just involves a lot of roto work. The trickiest bit of that will be the container, because the red glass part is very small and the whole container moves around in the man's hand. No doubt the part which requires the most thought is the remaining shots (frames 0477-0585). Even though  nothing actually needs implementing on them, research into this area is needed to find out what effects are used on shows similar to the one in the footage.. From the look of the fight, there is a lot of moving around by the characters, but nothing else happening, perhaps it is intended for some sort of effect to manifest around each character when they do these signature moves (the clip is from a show called The Spirit Warriors, it can be assumed that the characters have some form of special powers). With this obviously being a children's show, the best way to go about this is to make things bright and colourful to represent their powers (maybe Power Rangers can be used for inspiration, because the style of filming appears to be similar).