Thursday, 17 March 2016

Evaluation

Link to our green screen: https://youtu.be/SuNeSe3192o

For our video project, we were asked to create a short film that lasted 30 to 40 seconds long that  involving the green screen. The green screen allowed us to put our recorded footage over an image or GIF. 
For our green screen, we decided to base it round a Pokemon battle. By using our own footage of two characters spawning their Pokemon from an over the shoulder shot angle, we were able to put in a Pokemon battle background underneath so it looked as if they were in the game.   

We used a range of tools to help us with this. To get the right amount of footage, I used the Razor Tool to cut and trim the footage, music and pictures so that they fit and ran smoothly. To add the background pictures to the green screen, I applied the Ultra Key effect that can be found in 'Effects' then 'Keying.' I dropped the Ultra Key effect onto the green screen video. After, I moved the green screen video onto the top layer and then placed the background image on the layer underneath. I then went into the editing bar and used the pipette near 'Key Colour' to select the green screen colour. When the green screens were completed, I worked on adding the GIF's of the Pokemon fighting to add more effect. Though, for both the videos and GIF's, I had to re-size them. I did this by going on the Editing tab and selecting 'Motion' there, I put the images to scale. 

After finishing the footage, I worked on the sound. I used a website called 'YouTube Converter' to convert the sounds I got from YouTube into audio files which I later imported into Adobe Premiere. Although I did have some technical difficulties with this at first, I managed to work my way around it and find an audio file that was even greater then the original music I tried to use previously. Since I had some music over lapping, I had to make sure the each sound track could be clearly heard. I checked the audio sound by going into 'Audio Track Mixer.' Here, I could control the level of volume for each separate audio track and make sure it never passed a certain mark, indicating it was too loud. 

When I finished adding the extra effects such as: Lightning, lens glare and the finishing credits, I uploaded it to YouTube. Since YouTube  had its own effects, I applied an enhance effect to my video to bring out the colours of my short green screen clip.

Although the filming didn't go smoothly as there were some minor shadows scene in the green screen scenes, overall I think it was a success. For my first time using the green screen, I believe that even with the shadows the filming with the imported background looks effective and eye catching. 


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