Account of editing week 4

Now that i have finished cutting the shots together we have to start after effects on the video. We shot the band on a green screen we are going to use chromo-keying in order to put in wallpaper and flooring. This is done by masking out the band members making the green disappear, we did this by using the software caled "key light". I then changed the saturation of this layer in order to make the band appear in black and white. I then added in the floor and wallpaper to the shot as a different layer. We found the wallpaper by looking on an online home-wear store and copying a screen shot of some wallpapers and seeing which one works best with the theme of the old basement. The wallpaper screen shot was then made into a tile format in order for it to look more realistic. The floor tiles were found and made in the same way except when they were keyed into the shot they had to put at a specific angle in order to make sure that it looked flat and that it looked like the band was standing on it. I also added an omnilight to the middle of the shot in order to light the wallpaper and flooring layer which made it look more realistic. The next step was to add the layer of coloured rain in front of the shot. The rain was shot at night so the background is black with the rain being lit by coloured gels over lighting. To make the colours better and brighter i changed the hue in order to place the rain over the shot, i used the blending tool so that the black would become transparent. This sequence had to be repeated for every shot so it took a long time to do. The effect we wanted to use was to have colours to start coming back into the shot at the end of the pomo but this meant having another two layers. I got the rain water splatter effect from the animation library. I then placed this over the shot and used a blending tool to make the white in the middle of the splatter transparent showing the band in colour underneath. I then used another blending tool in order to make the black around the splatter transparent this time however revealing the black and grey layer.