As the a large majority of our music video project is going to be conducted using a green screen effect, we thought it would be best to do a practice piece, this enables us to analyse what went well, what we need to use, and what works well when using and editing with the green screen.
A green screen is an integral part of the special effects process known formally as Chromakey. Chromakeying, sometimes known as color keying, is the process of singling out a particular color in an electronic image/footage and then using computer software to make that color transparent, which then enables us to add a background of our choice.
The effect we are going for in the main task is a greyscale, shabby background in order to set the mood of the music video. However as this is our practice we just selected an average background to play with.
I learnt how to do this task by watching some simple YouTube clips on green screening with Premier Pro, which is the software which we use to edit our projects.
What went well: When conducting the actual editing of this footage, after I had watched YouTube tutorials, this worked well and we realised it is actually a pretty simple to change and edit the backgrounds of moving and still images/footage. This really helped and boosted our confidence to explore more within Premier Pro, meaning we will be much more experimental when editing our final music video project.
What we learnt: When videoing the short footage to achieve this practice piece, we filmed it in the computer room, with the green screen in front of computers, which were turned on. At first, we never even thought this would cause any problems, however when it came to the editing process, we realised that the brightness of the computers screens shone through the green screen, which caused the final piece to have different lighting in certain spots, meaning the grey background didn't cover as well as we expected. However, this is learning curve for us all, and it was much better that we practiced this and realised now, rather than doing it in our main task.
A green screen is an integral part of the special effects process known formally as Chromakey. Chromakeying, sometimes known as color keying, is the process of singling out a particular color in an electronic image/footage and then using computer software to make that color transparent, which then enables us to add a background of our choice.
The effect we are going for in the main task is a greyscale, shabby background in order to set the mood of the music video. However as this is our practice we just selected an average background to play with.
I learnt how to do this task by watching some simple YouTube clips on green screening with Premier Pro, which is the software which we use to edit our projects.
What went well: When conducting the actual editing of this footage, after I had watched YouTube tutorials, this worked well and we realised it is actually a pretty simple to change and edit the backgrounds of moving and still images/footage. This really helped and boosted our confidence to explore more within Premier Pro, meaning we will be much more experimental when editing our final music video project.
What we learnt: When videoing the short footage to achieve this practice piece, we filmed it in the computer room, with the green screen in front of computers, which were turned on. At first, we never even thought this would cause any problems, however when it came to the editing process, we realised that the brightness of the computers screens shone through the green screen, which caused the final piece to have different lighting in certain spots, meaning the grey background didn't cover as well as we expected. However, this is learning curve for us all, and it was much better that we practiced this and realised now, rather than doing it in our main task.
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