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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ALL THE SHOOP'ERZ

ALL THE SHOOP'ERZ

Editing: End of the month and end of the cut- 30th November

Today looked like it was going to be the last day in which we would add shots into the video or change anything within the main structure of what we have created so far. Our next step once this is finished is to start adding the animations that we want to incorporate within our video to help give it that 80's touch. So we just slowly went through the video checking each and every shot as well as how it cut to the next shot. As we looked through the video the main thing that we needed to sort out, was making sure that the shots we needed to cut on the beat. Also after watching the video a few times, we came to the conclusion that some of the shots were either a bit to long or a bit to short, so this just took a little bit of tweaking and fine tuning then it looked better, as it flowed more and looked much more like a professional product. After James reviewing what we had done, we took a few of the shots we had in, out and swapped them for ones that fit better. Not only this but James helped us realise that the song ended really abruptly, so we are going to try and get it to fade out and get the video to fade out as well which will also help with out creation of an 80's feeling. After putting the fade out, into the video it made the ending of the video look a lot better and less rushed.

Thanks for the post, Tyler.

Editing: 25th November

Today was a big day for our video. I spent 4 hours in the editing suite over the course of the day, and in that time I was able to finish our performance cut, and tidy it up. I found that it all went incredibly well, and even the performance cut works as a concept for the entire video. Having done this, I wanted to place some of the footage from our rough cut to add different elements of performance in different locations into the video. I made a start on doing this with our DJ's, and even though they currently lie above the performance cuts, I cut the shots to the beat and as they dont involve any lip syncing I can place them at any point in the video, as long as they cut on the beat.

Thanks for the post, Tyler.

Editing: 24th November

Now that I have finished our first rough cut of our music video, 'SHOOP', it was time to polish our video into something even better. To begin with I was unsure how to do this, but Matt and Luke both suggested that I create a performance/lip sync cut of the element in which we have the most footage. In our case, it was of our three main girls in front of the colour wall. However, I ran into another problem as I was unsure on how I should go about making this happen, but I sat down with Matt who showed me that I simply needed to gather all my footage, sort through it to see what worked and what didn't. This was complicated to start with, but once I got the ball rolling with it things started to look better and better and my vision was clearer. Unfortunently, just as I got everything going nicely, it was time to leave due to prior commitments.

Furthermore, today was the day that we would upload our first rough cut onto YouTube, little known to us this would take nearly the whole lesson. It took a fair few steps:

1. We had to export it to quicktime from adobe premier pro
2. Then we had to save this onto a USB
3. Then we had to transfer it onto someones laptop and then wait for it to download onto it
4. Then had to upload it onto YouTube
5. Finally it was published onto YouTube and now is available for everyone to watch 

James and India Feedback on our 1st Rough cut

India Moynihan and James Purdy, the couple together again. You may know India as Sandy in Grease on Broadway.

Editing: 23rd November

On Friday Ollie also got some extra advice from Luke, who watched the video and then told us how we could both make the video better and also make the editing easier for ourselves. Firstly he put markers in through out the video where he saw something wrong such as the shot being wrong, and from here we have to correct it and make it look better. Then he made us put all of the shots from each set on to separate performance beds, in order for it to be more clear to us where each shots from each set were and it overall made our timeline look a lot neater and it was easier to find the things we needed to find.

So from here we carried on editing small bits of the footage, and neatening everything up so we could make the job easier for ourselves.

We were having issues completing the advice that Luke had given us so Matt came to show us what we could do and see if it would help. So he saved it so that if we didn't like what he did we could revert to what we had originally. Matt then highlighted to us that some shots weren't synced because they didn't all start at the same point on the clapper board, as some shots started half way through the song. Then he locked some things so that we couldn't screw up any thing to do with the clapper board. Then he showed us how we would have to match each and every single piece of footage that we wanted to use the the clapper board individually. It is going to take a while, but it will make the editing so much easier once its all done.  

Thanks for the post, Tyler.