Green Screen

We had to make a short video using a green screen.

The advantages of using a green screen is that you can be any where in the world, you can get a picture of space or under the sea and you can make it look like you're there.

The disadvantages is that it's hard to make it look real, like mine made it look like I was see through plus I had a greenish glow around me.

Also it's not a quick and easy thing to do it takes time and effort.

Green screen is used for telling the weather, it's can also be used to take away a body part of someone (their arm or head). It's good for appearing in a place you could not usually go to (the moon). And it can be used to make a person appear small or large depending on the picture in the background.

8mm Film

We wanted to film something and make it look like it was from the olden days. We first filmed something which didn't have any modern things in it otherwise it would ruin the illusion. Then after putting the clips on final cut pro we put different video filters and colour correction on the clip to make it look old.

The Annoying Orange Effect

For this task we had to do the annoying orange effect. This makes it look like an object has eyes and a mouth. I used a pie for mine. To do this you had to put the pie over my face and then crop out holes for eyes and the mouth, then smooth the edges and add a tint on the face so it matches, in my case, the pie.

Slow mo

This effect is used to show slow motion but only in certain parts of a clip. It is used to put emphasis on something. I had to use someone else's clip because my final cut pro was going wrong.

 

Key Framing

Key framing is when you can move a picture or some text around the screen. 

To do this you need to drag a picture (or text) into the timeline and then in the canvas click on the picture and click the diamond button (it will say when you hover over it add motion keyframe). It will turn the lines of the picture screen and if you drag the picture to another place a line will appear which is the pictures past. As you move along with timeline and drag the picture into different places it will move.

Pleasantview Effect

We had to use the effect of isolating a colour. It needs to be a bright colour and one that isn't anywhere else in shot.

We achieved this by putting a 3 way colour correction on the video clip, then eye dropping the colour of the thing we wanted (like the shoes), the inverting the colours, unticking the sat and luma boxes and putting the saturation down.

Cloning

Our task was to make a video with our 'clone' using final cut pro to create the illusion. 

To make it seem real we have to make sure the camera doesn't move otherwise the frames will be different. We used a tripod to keep it steady. We then have to make sure the lighting is the same. We just used a normal light to do this. To keep the illusion the two people need to have the same eye line. And lastly bodies cannot cross and neither can shadows, we used a line in the background to guide us.

Editing it is quite easy, first you have to put the clips together and then make the top one transparent. This means you can edit it to make it in time. Then after trimming the clip you can crop it left or right to then be able to see the person underneath.

With mine at one point my arm went over the line so it was cropped out so next time I'll be more careful.