Public Work
This is the first animation/public work I have created at the start of the Creative Media level 3/yr 2 course. I was experimenting with keyframes and how to adjust them into animation. I had to follow a tutorial provided to me to create a multiple animation with 2 or more pieces showing on screen at the near/ or same time. I had to make the bobble heads bounce in to each-other and away from one another. The editing began in effect controls > motion therefore had to decrease the size of the head(s) on screen and swipe them left to right down and up to create the animation and mark it with keyframes. Now adding a rotation towards the heads, to add a spinning sequence towards them. After that, creating the illusion their hitting one another and bouncing off the walls.
Experimenting with tracking shots - in this video is one singular shot of a group mate performing. We had 1 camera, 1 tripod to film this and 3 people (including myself) in a backdrop away from camera. The video is 43 seconds long. With the tripod, it was moveable, to record a 180 degree angle movement on Sam. Afterwards, during the editing process, we had to configure the audio from the visuals; making the lip sync happen on what Sam is syncing and the lyrics. That was a challenging part, however, we didn't 100% get the lip syncing correct, just a split second(s) behind. In the end, turned to be decent enough as a good amateur performing music video.
I had to create an on-beat rhythm with audio and visuals - but especially with 'Markers' Markers are used to to time the beat of the song with the video, to give an indication when beats in the song are conveyed. I also had to experiment with off cuts and jumping cuts, which i merely just managed to do. I experimented with an off cut, off screen for a second, and I wanted to create a jumping(s) cut, to make the visual video change the location the where the subject is; especially in the background and if the camera is positioned differently e.g. face seen, gear stick. Next, I used a black and white tint added to one section on the timeline on my beat video editing process, to add effect onto it.
Colour Theory
Experimenting with Colour grading/colour panels. Using specific colour changing effects to change the visuals on the current video into something more eccentric or 'trippy' to help customise video visuals into something unique. Starting off with HLS colour balance in effect settings and then changing the 'hue' in effect controls to any other colour visualisation I want that's suitable. Then using keyframes to time when these colour visuals appear/go off screen. Forwards, I used another type of visual changer called 'solarise', which has similarities towards saturation; it was on a point called 'Threshold' and I used the scale of 1 to 100 in length for the solarise to appear visually on screen. Again, using keyframes to time it from start to end. It is at the end of the video, where it is normal visuals and then turns.
I was playing with the foreground and background of this editing process; I needed to change the background and leave the foreground (women in the shot) completely the same, by that I needed to change the colour of the visuals in the background of the video. There is a setting in effects called 'Leave Colour' which is an option to highlight a specific area chosen e.g. the woman's red dress including her. Next I had to press 'Amount to de-colour' to decrease the colour in the background to white and grey. I had to experiment with the tolerance and edge softness options to properly display the women in full colour and the background in white and grey. Because the tolerance would sometimes glitch.
Codes and Conventions
Multi-Camera Editing
& Split Screening
I had to practice some multi-camera editing work in preparation for doing it on my actual music video. I had to stack up the layers on my timeline in order for this to work first; I had to right click the layers and click 'synchronise' so therefore the audio is linked up together all working simultaneously. The timeline had layers of visuals, all with their own audios together, so next I had to start going through the layers on which I wanted to keep surfaced visually on screen, in order to do this, I had to crop a layer. If a layer was on top another one, it wouldn't show on screen. I also had to create markers, by pressing 'M' when a beat drops > change the camera angle position.
Quite similar to the guitar video, I had to use sequences of multi-camera work production in adobe premiere pro and create camera shots of what I wanted on screen. Making sure the visuals and audio are lined up together and cutting out the visuals I do not need on the timeline, so therefore creating different camera angle POV's whenever a visual on the timeline is cut off, to match with the presenters and contestants time to be on camera when they speak. Example: Contestant on the right speaks, camera angle cut's to subject, contestant on the left speaks, camera cuts to subject. The cameras need to follow where the presenter in the middle speaks, and furthermore cutting to the middle camera, so a POV of everyone involved is needed where necessary. There are 3 cameras for each subject on the screen.
Music Video Recreation
Me in a group of people had to create a re-master of a chosen music video we had to perform and record out. Using a location where necessary, we had to find people to perform in the music video and those to help out with the camera angles/positions to match up with the real video - make it as close as possible to the real thing.
MUSIC VIDEO LYRICS
I had to choose a song and I wanted to create lyrics on - I had to follow the song produced by it's lyric making and implement them into an audio based text style video concept. In editing, i had to go the graphics tab and use the text tool to add text on the screen. Next, on the editing timeline, using text to re-create the lyrics, had to time it perfectly to when the song drops and a lyric is heard on screen. I had to follow up with continuing the lyrics as the music video went, by adding lyrics on screen with editing when the previous lyric's were just said - trying to make the audio video look smooth. The goal was to add as much lyrics on screen as possible, at different times - so a lyric could start off, it could be on the left of the screen, then to middle, top, bottom and right again. Which the goal was completed. I did this by stacking up the editing timeline with parts of all the different edits altogether.
Implementing Lyrics/Title - Adobe Premiere Pro
I had to write up on a piece of paper titling it my full name. I used A4 paper and stuck it up against the wall using blue tack and took a photo of it. In Adobe premiere pro, I selected an image of a city to put as the background and the title of my name as the foreground on the timeline editing bar - the background has to be placed below the image where my writing is on otherwise it won't show on screen.
Adobe After Effects - Mirror Effect
I had to open up Adobe After Affects and select a video of a random video from pixels and create a mirror affect. In effect & presets I selected the 'mirror' option. After a line over the visual screen would appear in the perimeter and I had to select the 'dot' and move in a second slide of the video into the visual screen and it creates a hallow image of a 'mirror effect' that 2 videos are parallel to each other on screen. I could play around with the angles to select any part where I wanted to place the mirror affect, either up or down or side to side.
Glow Lighting
Going into Adobe After Effects, clicking new composition from footage - i had to Use a glow effect and get a random video and join a group project, who had to perform a dance. I was received and add a 'glow line' which adds an animatic towards the video. Selecting the brush icon on-top of the screen and going into effects selecting the glow option; furthermore on the effects option I had to press the 'screen' button, also - When into the glow animatic, I also had to press 'screen' mode when clicking the compartments (the layers that show the visuals on screen). Otherwise, if I didn't do that, the glow wouldn't appear on screen at all. Next, I had to make a second visual layer, After effects comes with one, thats the visual window we see on screen, so I had to make another one by right clicking the compartment on the bottom left of the screen and clicking 'solid'.
Now began the animatic glow technique, a colour of choice which should mainly be neon, I had green/blue, I had to fit the visual on the screen by making sure it fit, using the second visual layer, I clicked onto that on the top of the screen and began. I clicked the paint tool on the top left of the screen, picked my colour, the size of what I wanted the colour to be on the gradient, which was a multiple of between 10-20 wide; (the pen is a circle spot which appears on screen). Similar to keyframes, which deploying a keyframe and playing the video as it goes & stopping the video when I wanted it to end - is similar to how this glow painting was. However, I had to draw a glow into the perimeter of the person performing, use a feature on the right of the screen above the brush option called 'pre-play' after I had drawn a line of a glow, I had to press pre-play and it gets rid of that glow on the screen, pulling the video frame by frame/a new motion and re-adding another glow line onto that frame perimeter. Eventually adding a glow around the entire persons body or adding mostly nice features of glow around them. At the end going into effects and on the left side of the screen adding a tiny of intensity towards the glow.
Lining in After Effects
Going into Adobe After Effects, clicking new composition from footage, I needed to get a video from PEXELS with a box shape behind the subject and create a line that will move vertically and horizontally from behind. Creating to visuals
Ultra Key Function
Using a green-screen I had to download 2 pieces of material, a video of a women holding a camera and a background - putting the background below the women video on the editing timeline. I had to go into effects > settings and select Ultra Key and put on the editing timeline. The screen was currently green, so I selected the ultra key setting's colour gradient when it gave me a pen icon, I selected the background, not the woman otherwise it wouldn't work - the screen then corrected to the subway background I wanted it to be. I then adjusted the background colours so it would fit the woman's 'bright colour' using 'transparency, Choke, Shadow & Highlight' in effect controls.
Shadow FX
I had to select an image that could be placed into a screen screen but more specially advanced in terms of where it is on screen - There was a television and a woman 'selling' an offer presented on screen, so I went into Adobe premiere pro and put the background 'TV' onto the timeline and the woman as the foreground, on the editing timeline, the woman's editing bar has to be placed above the background otherwise she won't appear on screen. I had to set the person to frame size which makes it fit onto the screen visuals. I had to go into effects and get 'ultra key' and press on the colour selector, then a 'pen icon' appears on screen so next I had to click the background, not the woman otherwise the background won't appear on screen, which is the 'studio set'. So I pressed the screen and it's now appeared. I had to position the place where the woman was on screen and had to make her even smaller to adjust towards screen size using 'scale'. Next, I had to duplicate her timeline edit and put a second version of her on screen, tipped it upside down using 'vertical flip' in effects, this is needed to create a mirror effect of her reflection on the floor, so I decreased the opacity. Now with the greenscreen, I inserted a car image and made it smaller so I could measure it so it would fit on the TV on screen, I placed it on the TV and now I begun to fit the car on the TV, because since the angle of the TV on screen sis titled, it won't fit right. I went into effects and got 'corner pin' and put it on the car timeline edit. Now on each 4 angles of the car image it has placement dots so I selected each of them to get it to fit correctly on all 4 corners of the screen so it looked angled correctly until it did. And finished it.