Assignment: Effects Practice

Point value: 50 points Due: Oct. 16th Turn in: a FLV movie file containing all of the effects in the order presented on this sheet. Each effect should be introduced with a title containing the name of the effect. If for some artistic reason you would rather have all of your effects run together as one continuous video and have one slide at the end that will work as long as you can justify it and get permission from Mr. Smith. Length: each effect should be approximately 5 to 10 seconds (long enough to constructively use and show off the effect). Content: Each effect should be done in a manner that is relevant in a scene that has content designed to showcase the effect.

SOME INTERESTING EFFECTS THAT SHOW CREATIVITY

**remember that once you do all of this hard work for a special effect you can save your settings by selecting all the effects you used and save them as a preset. Green Screen 1. Film your scene using the green screen in the studio 2. Using Premiere Pro import your green screen footage and your background footage 3. Place the green screen footage on video track 2 and place the image/video/graphic that will replace the green screen on video track 1 4. Using video effects find Chroma Key hint: you can type chroma into the keyword search to find it quickly 5. In the effects Controls window expand the Chroma Key effect options and using the eye dropper choose a mid tone green and then use similarity to widen the range of green color to include the entire green screen. 6. Then use the blend and smoothing on high 7. You can also use the Blur and Sharpen effect and select Gaussian Blur to soften the edges 8. If you included the area outside of the green screen or the edges of the green screen did not disappear as they should have you can use the Garbage Matts found in the keying effect Silhouette 1. Use the green screen. Film your subject in front of the green screen. 2. On the timeline, place this image on video track 2 with the background color on track 1 as you did in creating the green screen effect. (NOTE: You can create a color background inside the new title panel by dragging a square over the frame and coloring it. You can also use Photoshop or paint to make a color background graphic file saved as a JPG file). 3. Place the chroma key effect onto the green screen image 4. Use the eye dropper to select a mid-range green color from the green screen background 5. Then use the similarity to grab all the green plus the blend and smoothing on high 6. You can also use the Blur and Sharpen effect and select Gaussian Blur to soften the edges 7. For the silhouette effect go to Adjust and select Levels to drag onto green screen clip 8. Change the Gamma to 0 and the image will become black 9. If there are some edges of green that did not convert well you can use the Garbage Matts found in the keying effect

Multiple images inside one frame (be sure to include the 4 variations described below) 1. It is important to film the scene with the effect in mind so the subjects are looking the right way and appear in the correct side of the frame. 2. Place the layer you wish to move on a video layer over the base image. You can have several layers in the frame at one time. So if you want more than two stack them on top of each other. You can look at the effect by toggling the video on and off on the left of the timeline. 3. You can accomplish this technique in a few ways a. Using the Motion Effect and the Position you can move the image where you want inside the frame. b. Using the transform>Crop tool you can cut an edge off of a frame so it appears split. (to find the crop effect you can type crop into the search window. Also include these interesting variations: 1. A shot showing 2 to 4 people talking to each other (you will have to include each person listening and waiting for a chance to say something) 2. a PIP (picture in picture) effect like in the news. 3. Using one of the examples above do it again and have a video frame (person talking) move on and off as appropriate (requiring key frames) 4. Using one of the examples above do it again and have a frame fade in and out. (requiring keyframes)

Isolating a color (example: a rose remains red and the rest of the frame is black and white) 1. Use the Color Pass video effect under Image Control 2. Drag this onto the video. Use the eye dropper tool to select the tool 3. Using the similarity adjustment fine tune your color range. Changing duration and speed of a clip 1. Right click on a video clip 2. On the drop down menu that appears select Duration ---and ???? 3. Make the number ----a minus for reverse??? Or just check the box ---- is 50% faster or slower and is it longer in timeline 4. Choose a second clip to reverse it Making a Blurred face 1. Using Premiere Pro open the file with the face and place it on track 1 2. Copy the clip and place it on track 2 3. Create a title and place the shape to cover the face and place this in track 3 and stretch it out to be as long as you want this effect to last. 4. Drag the Mosaic effect (or any effect you like) onto track 2 and set the mosaic to 26 x 26 and adjust from there. 5. Drag the Track Matt Key effect onto track 2 6. Open the options for the track matt key and select video 3 7. This should give you the effect you need. 8. If you want the blur to move with the face then you must use key frames to keep it moving. Making a Blurred Voice 1. Drag Pitch Shifter into the audio track 2. Open the options for the pitch shifter and select custom. 3. Use the knobs to change the voice