equiptment

Bluescreen: used for solid color to later key out and replace
Final cut: used to color correct image to solidify bluescreen color, also used for splicing of film.
Adobe After Effects: Has far better chroma keying tools than FC, so i did all keying in this. i also compiled the spacey background in AE as that Required good Luma keying to remove the black and layer the up.
Camera: used on high frame rate to allow better speeding up + slowing down via frame blending tools.
Tripod: used to gain steady shots and zooms
Sketchbook: used for detailed storyboards and graphics to be inserted in to animatic
Internet; research/imagery/inspiration for mood board. used for sound fx and pyro effects.
Sound CD: used for great drones and pulses used as soundtrack to film.

I've learnt many things about the filming processes of making special effects in that Bluescreen always needs to be perfectly smooth - ironed if possible, as the smallest crease could create a shadow just out of the keying tolerance level, therefor making you have to color correct to gain the highest solidity of one color (blue) and the color correction even though it may fix the keying problem can have negative effects on the rest of the footage (other R/G/B levels too high/low).
Also from this point on, if i need to do keying again i'll always use AE first, THEN FC as i didnt realise the quality difference, eating up my time.