Further editing: Special effects on Adobe programmes

Having finish the final cut for our pop video, I, Oliver Tennant was tasked with creating the special effects for the video.

I was unable to actually begin creating the animations yet due to issues around font, which I will explain later on. Instead, I learnt how to take out the green from our green screen shots. When Matt first explained to me how I could do this, I was slightly confused and thought 'Oh God this could take a while', however I paused and thought about it, and really it is rather simple. All I had to do was press Alt and drag the clip I wanted to work on up to duplicate it, right click and disable the clip. This was so that if it turned out that I didn't like the changes I was about to make I could very easily go back a start again. Next I would right click again and click, 'export to Adobe special effects'. This took me into a seperate application where I would click an option that would highlight the green, then I would check it in Screen Matte, this would show me the whites and blacks. I would make sure that everything I wanted visible in the shot was white, and the green screen was black. Once I had done this I would go back to previous section of what was now hopefully, everything that was there originally but now a black screen. I did this with all 15 of our green screen shots, and already the video was looking better and I am very much looking forward to adding our background of the Los Angeles Skyline at night.

Now adding the special effects is not a simple task, and I decided to begin with searching the worldwide web for the appropriate font. Now, following a recomendation from Matt, I went onto the website Dafont.com.






On here I was able to type out the sentence I would like, so that when I looked through the hundreds, maybe even thousands of fonts available I would be able to get a clear and approximate view of what it would actually look like on screen. I decided to go with "I want to Shoop Baby"

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I did this, and decided that catagory wise my best bet was to search through the 'comic' section. On entering this I was faced with a whole spectrum of different comic looking fonts. On trawling through these I struggled to make a decision as it was after all quite a big one to make without the help from my group, therefore I made a short list of seven, in which I have a favourite, so here they are.

I am also going to give a brief insight into my thought processes I had when short listing some of them.

Number 1: I feel that this one is nice, however the fuzz around it may make it harder to read, which could be a real problem as the words will not appear on screen for a particularly long time.

Number 2: This one is also nice, however I don't think that it is 80's enough and could appear tacky

Number 3: I love this one and it is in fact my favourite. It is clear, easy to read, and is slightly wonky, giving it that 80's look.

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