Planning: Learning to use a green screen

Above is the video for my first try at using a green screen with footage behind it. Firstly we began by filming a small piece of dialogue in front of a green screen, after importing this along with the music video clip I used 'Ultra Key' to remove the green colour from the background and then I used the 'Eight-point garbage matte' to decrease the background in the dialogue clip; This helped to remove some of the visible creases from the green-screen. Below the same process was used in the beginning but this time I had to match the track up with the movement of the lip-syncing and then for the background I selected various clips, slowed them down and reversed them to avoid using Adele.

Above you can see how the footage looks before ultra key is used, the green screen is still very visible, below is how it looks once the ultra key has selected green, this would be difficult if there was anything else in the piece of film that was also green, also you can slightly see around her hair there are still small pieces of green left visible, this is something I may have to consider when filming. I will have to ensure that the subject is not wearing any green clothing and appears easy to edit.

 Here you can see how I changed the time settings to 30% and also reversed it after, Underneath it I have shown how I finished the video with a dip to black so that it didn't just stop, it had an ending to it.

Here is the finished video of Ellie lip-syncing to Rolling In The Deep

This task will help me when creating my music video because it has provided me with more knowledge on how to use the various effects in Adobe Premiere Pro, I am contemplating using lip-syncing in my video because the vocals aren't very clear so it may be difficult but if I decide that I want to in the future, at least I know how to do it and the best/easiest ways to go about doing it

Planning: Editing with APP "Wings"

To begin, I listened to the song, with the lyrics in hand so I could familiarise myself with it as it was not a song I had heard before, I added the song to the APP time line which helped me see the length of the song. Once I had imported all the clips I had, I watched them all to see if I could pick out any lip-syncing, I found this extremely difficult to begin with but to help out I dragged some of the clips and places them where I thought they belonged and slowly edged them along till they slotted into the correct place.

Once the lip-syncing was out of the way I listened out for key things like the footsteps at the beginning and then I matched this up with the picture, the rest of the clips I had I put in places which I felt that worked, but i found that I had gaps missing, to fill in these gaps I slowed some of the clips down to 50% their speed and I also reversed some of the clips so I would have a interesting effect that looked skill-full

I have uploaded both my favourite section of my version and my full edited version to You Tube, To watch them, simply click on the play button

Here is the Full video:

And below is a 45 second clip which I would consider to be the best part because of my use of slow motion and reverse speed

Macklemore x Ryan Lewis "WINGS" Official Music Video

Below is the original music video for Macklemore x Ryan Lewis - "Wings" as part of our editing challenge we were all given a few clips from the video with no audio and the song- so we had to match up any lip-syncing and make a creative and interesting video out of what we had (Later on we found out that not all of the clips were there so it was quite a difficult task)

Planning: Storyboard with Shot List

1. Close up/Extreme Close up shot
2. Extreme Close up
3. Close up (lips) Establishing shot (Sea)
4. Close up
5. Extreme Close up
6. Close Up/Extreme Close up (lips etc) Establishing shot

1. Close up
2. Establishing shot (Clouds)
3. Close Up (Lips)
4. Close Ups
5. Close Up (Lips)
6. Establishing Shot

1. Close Up (Lips) With Establishing sunset shot
2. Close Up (Lips) With Establishing sunset shot
3. Establishing Shot

Research: Audience Feedback

In order to get more ideas for my music video I created a survey, Below are the responses I received

  These questions were to establish who my feedback was from, from this i knew that i could recieve a range of different opinions.

 From these questions I learnt that people would be focusing more on the dynamics of the song, which is good since the song I have chosen has very good dynamics. I can see that people would expect abstract images/ the band playing in the video, but since I can't have the band playing in mine, I think I will use abstract images, in a comment on this It was suggested that I use lights also. 

 These questions helped to build up some background knowledge about music videos and I found out that people still often watch them and they use YouTube to watch them on, This tells me that it would be a good idea to upload my video to you tube or browse YouTube for more Ideas when I am stuck.

 These answers helped me a lot, the vocals in my chosen song are difficult to hear so it would be hard to find clips that could easily match up to them, so this means that I do not necessarily have to have relevant scenes in my video, and again I would not be able to have the artist in my video, I may however experiment with some lip-syncing.

These answered have told me that i need to make a video that is entertaining enough to keep the audience watching but not too complicated to take away from the song itself, and to also use clips that can cut to the beat of the song for a good effect.

A2 Media Studies. Editing With Premiere Pro: Learning to Edit with titles

Learning to insert titles and effects

A2 Media Studies. Editing With Premiere Pro: Learning to Edit

In tidays lesson we were learning how to edit using Adobe Premier Pro with some short clips filmed by the year below for their preliminary task, below is the process.

On opening APP we were told not to change any of the original settings and once it had opened we had to change it, To make this process easier, we were asked to change our workspace to "Editing (CS5.5)". This provided us with a better layout which would make everything easier to edit

 Next, we had to import the short clips that we would be using by going to 'File'...'Import'.. and selecting the folder containing the clips

once all the clips were in APP we could watch them on a small scale individually and select which ones we would use, If you double click on the clip, it will appear in the larger left viewing window, in this you can mark in/out the section from the clip that you wish to use.

Once you have your clip selected, you will be able to drag either the video or the audio only, or even both if you wished, this is good because it allows you to add audio over the top after without it interfering with sound already in the clip

Here's a picture of me in the editing process!

You are able to add titles by selecting 'Title' at the top of the window which then takes you to another window, allowing you to enter text and change fonts and colours. If you wish to add effects you can go into a tab on the left which will give you a drop down menu of various effects you can use, on my video I gave the music (which I chose to be the Godfather theme tune) a fade in and out (I used 'constant power') so that it did not interfere with the dialogue in the clip, below is my final video, with music added, In the next post I will include the video, but with simple titles which I created.

Revised Target Grade

My revised target grade is a B!