Class Tasks

 * We were put into groups (of our own choice) and were tasked to make a short music video with a song of our choosing. obviously, it wouldn't be fair to make a full music video (plus that's literally our main project) so we condensed it to a verse or two. The video above is the final product.

Originally, we were supposed to make our own version of this music video individually, but we were allowed to edit this as a group, and that's exactly what we did (we didn't see the point in as our edits would of been the same).

The edits were done in Premiere Pro, there was no reason to use After Effects as there was no point. (There wouldn't be any point)      

* This is the same car chase video as the one before but I added A monochrome effect to it (IMO this makes the original footage look better) I haven't added the original edit into this page as I can't find it so I'll just talk about the two here. (they're the same video anyway). We were given some stock footage about a woman driving around in her car and some music and we were supposed to sort of pair them both up (make the footage match up with the beat). 

This was a good way of teaching us how much the music can affect the quality of the video simply by matching the beat up when the camera shots change. Although I didn't finish the original, it was still pretty fun. 

We used premiere pro for the original edit and used After Effects for the monochrome effect. 

* This was another effect that we recently learnt how to use in After Effects. We were given 3 bits of stock footage and we were to add 3 different effects to them. The Red Jacket Monochrome one was the first one that I edited.

With the Red Jacket Monochrome video, the process was pretty simple. All three of these videos were simple in all honesty. But that's probably because these are just basic effects. So what I did to create the effect of making everything but the woman's coat monochrome was to. Simply add the effect that allows you to do that. I can't remember the effects name but, what it does is isolate a colour of your choice, while the rest goes monochrome. That's it. Like I said, these tutorials were very simple so I was able to complete them quite quickly.

With the colour hype tutorial, we were able to drastically change the way the visuals looked. All you have to do is search up the effect, HLS colour balance. And with that you can change how the colour looks.

The last effect that we did was the simplest. All you have to do is search for the Solarize effect and that's it.

* This was an edit we did of Before You Accuse me by John and Ian Ross. We were given three bits of footage of this video, each with a different angle, and we were tasked to edit up a clip combing all three of them. This was actually one of my favourite tutorials because I got to mix around a lot of different clips together and see the end result of it. There were a lot of shots that I combined that did and didn't work but in the end, I learned a lot with what type of angles work and don't work and will remember this when thinking about what shots I want to do and what I want that to transition to when filming my music video. (Edited in Premiere Pro)

* This is the same video as the one before. However, we got to use a new effect called cropping where you basically cut a certain part of the visuals on the screen. Normally, this would just leave you with half a clip and the other half would be the dark void. However, we were taught that you can actually fill that dark void up with a separate clip. What you see is the end result, I think this is a really cool technique that I can see myself using in not only my music video, but other media projects I will create in the future.  

 * This was a recreational music video we did of One Day by Lovejoy. The process behind the composition of this video wasn't creative. We just picked relatively isolated spots in college and filmed there. The places aren't the most visually appealing but, we manged to make it work and I think the odd locations that we chose actually worked in our favour. Gives the video a unique vibe to it. If you watched the video, you can see that I played a main role in it. In the original music video, the guy I'm imitating has a guitar. Sadly, none of us had one on hand so we went for the next best thing, a tennis racket. I wouldn't say my performance was great, but it wasn't bad either. At that time I was still quite camera shy so my overall movements look a bit 'awkward', I knew that I had get over my camera shyness if I wanted make a music video that I could personally be proud of so I decided the best way to do that was to be on camera. I think overall, I did pretty well considering I was just imitating someone. Luckily, Sam Francis is a great dancer (Which I never knew) so all majority of the parts he was in actually came out better than I expected.

After recording, we all agreed that there wasn't much point in editing separately as the end product would be the same as each-others (we only recorded one angle for all of the shots) so instead we decided to edit with one computer but, everyone has to come up some ideas for it. The video is the end result of our ideas. In all honesty, there weren't many ideas that we could muster up. The things we did do was the VHS effect, the smaller screen ratio and a thumbnail for the video. 

In the end, I got a pretty good grasp into the creative process behind making a music video. You have to think of a good location (whether that location fits into your music video), good actors (and what those actors are going to do), what kind of shots you want to make (angle, type etc.) and whether you want certain effects in it once your in post-production. All these things become a lot trickier too if your music video has a certain theme in it. So overall, it was a good experience for me.     

* This was a cool edit that I didn't even know you could do. Ok so this could take a little explaining since technically this isn't actually an edit but bear with me. So our task was to simply grab a couple pieces of white paper and write some lyrics from the music video that we had chosen to do for our project. The important part was to write it using a marker and that it was a dark colour. After that, we were given some blue-tac and asked to stick them up on a white wall, and then record that. Then we find a video on pexels (preferably one that is recorded at night), download that and then upload both of those videos onto Premiere Pro. This whole process honestly sounds really weird now that I'm typing it but I'm nearly finished. Then with the video of the piece of paper, change the contrast from 0 to 100. With this, the paper has now tuned invisible and the only thing that is visible is the text that I wrote. This is honestly a really cool edit. While the process of making this may seem unnecessarily long, and I don't really see myself using this technique in my music video, I will definitely considering using it in my FMP.    

* This is a new effect that I learnt in Adobe After Effects. It's quite a simple and easy effect to make, however I see a lot of potential in its use. Granted, the effect will only work well if the person in shot isn't moving to the left or right that often. As you can see in my video, that is what exactly what that guy does. Overall, I didn't learn many new things in this tutorial. But, it was still nice to learn a new technique.

* This is another effect that I learnt in Adobe After Effects. Like the last one, it's very easy to add but, the only issue is that it takes quite while. So how the lightshow effect works is that a small ball of light appears in your screen. You can change how bright it is, which direction you want the reflection of light to go, and even manipulate other bits of lighting that might be prevalent in the video. Think of the light like a miniature sun. The problem arises however when you want to add a light effect (like a flash) onto something that is constantly moving, like the girl holding the phone. With that, I had to move that ball of light every frame so it matched up with the camera lens of the phone, it was annoying to say the least. However I did learn a bit on how to add your own digital lighting, which is sure to be useful in the future.      

* The 'trippy visuals' effect was the easiest tutorial we had done so far. Basically, what I had done was grab a video that had dark lighting and people dancing, and simply added an effect called Postarise time which made it look more stuttery. Another Effect that I added was called CC Wide Time which created ghost images after every step. While I do think that these are cool effects. I can't really see myself using them in the current project. However, I will keep these two effects in mind when it comes to my FMP.     

* The dancing glow girl video was one of the most time consuming tutorials we had done so far. So what we had to do is use the paint brush tool, and make an outline of the dancing girl. Sounds pretty simple no? Well you couldn't just make an outline of her in one frame. So what we did is draw a small line every frame that eventually created an outline of her. Only this time, the line would look like it's moving around her body. After we had done that, we created a black solid, copied the timeframes for the lines we drew and pasted it onto the black solid. Then finally, we simply added a glow effect to it. While my explanation seems quite simple, the actual task of doing this was very long. However it does look pretty cool. I don't think I'll incorporate this into my music video though as It doesn't really fit. This, in the end though was a nice technique to learn with a lot of use to be had.    

* The last class task that we did was the lines moving around. I actually don't remember how I did this one though so I'm not sure I can really give you my thoughts on it. I'd say that while their cool. I don't think I would use this effect for any of my future projects.