EDITING pt II

 

15/01/2013-18/01/2013

Tuesday

Today, due to the lack of footage we currently have, we experimented with a variety of effects. Because the keyer we attempted to use last week wasn't very effective we attempted a new strategy. We fiddled around with the exposure and contrast of the clips so that the white background became brighter and the black silhouette much darker. Using this effect solved the issue of the two thick strips either side of the image. We attempted to re apply the 'keyer' however, this was no better than our first attempt. Although the image looked a lot cleaner and clear, the original had character and a professional look. We decided to ditch the effects and keep our original shots.

 

The two images above is our experiment with the  colour correction
tool before and then after. Below is when we applied the Keyer
to the second image. As you can see it did not have the desired effect.

We also began editing the chorus today. Originally we had planned to use a moving gif image as our background, however when we keyed out the green screen and added the background, it looked too animated and robotic. We quickly solved the issue by dragging a second similar background onto the timeline below the gif, this filled the frame and made the image look more dense and the gif flow better. We also downloaded a gold glittering effect using a Youtube converter. We then dragged this over to our timeline and placed it above the shots using the green screen. We then altered the composition of the effect, by clicking the drop down menu and selecting "overlay". This made the green screen shots look a lot more 3D and less 2 dimensional.



The images above illustrate how we applied the keyer to our
original image and the layered multiple backgrounds to create
the finished effect. The first three images are our layers. The fourth
 image illustrates how we adjusted the composition of the glittering
effect and how the finished image looked.



 

Today we also solved the "keyer and multiple dancer issues". Instead we used a split screen effect, using three panels which come into the song at separate points. We used a similar effect in our Little Mix Edit, in the first four beats of the songs, each individual singer enters the frame at a different point. The split screen effect will be useful as it adds variety to our opening dance sequence.

The red box in the left hand corner shows that our three
different clips enter the frame at three different times. Shown
by how they have been stacked on the timeline.

During the chorus of the song we also attempted match on action, between the dancer against the white backdrop and the artist against the green screen. We also used match on action, by enlarging unique actions, so the camera almost does a close-up and we cut across to this. An example of this is when the dancer dips down, bending her legs outwards, halfway through the action we cut across to a close up. Although we didn't originally film the action in close up, we were able to manipulate this in the edit.