I have been busy lately trying to edit all the scenes and footage that we had that’s why I didn’t update my blog but thankfully the editing is all done now and the final product is almost ready!
We had five different footages, three scenarios, one rapping and one of the main singer. Although the scenarios on their own were more than the length of the song so I had this idea of putting the main singer over layer to the parts so everything is still happening in the scene but all behind the performer and the viewer will be able to watch both footage at the same time.
To do that I had to take all the footage home and start editing it on my computer where I had Adobe after effects because I find iMovie so limited and basic. Although I did use iMovie to put the song in line with the footage then imported it all in Adobe after effect. This was the main program that I used for all the editing.
There are some screen shots of the final footage and as you can see, the colour looks more dramatic and studio like. All the special effects are also done with after effect such as the blood and cigarette. I also added some lens flare and shake to the footage so the video will connect more with the dram and bass song. Because our song was fast and we mainly had slow narrative parts I wanted to somehow make the video faster and when I watched some similar dram and bass videos I realised the use a lot of flash lights, random zooming on the screen and shake. As a finishing touch I wrote a formula for the footage which made the whole footage flashy and shaky as I wanted!
Of course the editing was impossible without the good old Photoshop! Even thought Photoshop is a 2D program, I still had to use it quite a lot for our video! For example on the picture above I had to change the cigarette then animate it with after effects.
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