Evaluation

For this project we were asked to we were told that we had to create a 30-60 second film about anything so we came up with the idea of a person that basically walks into a classroom and finds something shining, he then picks it up and rubs it, not knowing what it is. However when he rubs it he finds out that it was actually a genie that was inside this magical object and grants him three wishes. His three wishes are that he is teleported to the Himalayas, his second wish is that we can have a room full of gold and his third wish is to go back in time. After this the genie goes back into the lamp and the film is done. What he doesn't quite know is that the genie misinterpreted what he said and sends him not just back in time but further back than he wanted to go and sends him to be within the dinosaur age so the man panicked and quickly asks the genie to teleport them the hell out of there.

The filming for my green screen film went really good and there was no problems. We got a lot of shots and filmed both in the studio with the green screen and outside the studio, we took around three takes for each clip you see in the film and then some more because we had to drop certain clips to make it look better so we had more than enough footage. A green screen it works by chromakeying. It's a green screen because you don't have any green shades in your body, it used to be a blue screen but they found that you have some blue shades in your body so they changed it to a green screen. Now though technology is crazy so you can have silver screens, even black screens etc. What a green is, is basically just a screen that sits behind you and then you do whatever you want to do with it in the editing process later on. In my case there was a curtain roll that we pulled up and down to make the green screen lower or higher.

For the editing process I learned how to make the green screen have images on top of it and what we had to do was we had to find an image from google so for example a park for instance and we would save the image and then import it into the Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 which is the software I'm using to edit this video.

We would have to check that the settings are set to composition and it's better to have one of the settings for the video on "aggressive". We also had choke and soften settings and the soften setting basically softens the edges while the choke setting sharpens the quality up. What we also got taught today is that the picture that we want to import on to the timeline needs to be below the actual green screen video but we had to go into a setting called "keying" then click on "ultra key" and place it over the green screen video part that we wanted on the timeline. After we did this we would go to effects and get something called a "colour pipette", select the pipette colour to green and click on the actual image (the green screen version) and I would work! What I also did apart from saving and adding pictures from Google is u went on to YouTube and imported a video of a dinosaur roaring and cropped the video down to the size that I wanted and did the exact same with the colour pipette and ultra keying etc but the scale and positioning of the video wasn't quite right so what I did was I went to my tools and I basically used a tool called "scale" & "positioning" where I could enlarge the video and place it where needed. At the bottom of the screen you can see the notes that I made while being taught these skills. All these screenshots are below.

The image that you see to your left and above is pictures of the sound booth room where we recorded our voice overs, the picture to the left is what you speak into and the picture above that picture is of the headphones which you put on top of your head so that you can hear yourself. The box next to it where you press record, you then speak into the mic and then press stop to record your audio clips. You also insert your SD card into the side of the box.





I also faded out the music at the end of some of the tracks like you can see me do here just to make it feel like it's not just straight away jumping into another piece of music.


In this picture you can see the image dip to white and basically what you have to do is click on effects at the bottom left of the screen, go into video transitions, click on the "dissolve" folder and drag the dip to white effect on to the end or start of your video but if you have a green screen effect then you have to drag and drop it twice on to the video file and the image on the green screens' file.


Adding text is easy as you just go to title and then add title then this screen will pop up, you can then type your text in and check what fonts look best before finalizing, when you're done you just cross off then box and it should be at the bottom of your source videos, the finished result is the picture below where I also added a sheen effect.



Adding tracks is what the picture to the left consists of. What you do is go to sequence then add tracks and add however many audio or video tracks you want.












What you see here is me listening to the audio files that we have just recorded in the sound booth and separating which ones are which. The pictures you see below that is me copying the audio files on to my external hard drive and saving them on there.







The first picture you see is me cutting down the audio tracks so that they play straight away, you then click on the wave image below it to just drag the sound on to your timeline and the second image is of muting tracks so that I can monetize the other tracks and listen to them. The green "M" is the button used to mute tracks.


This picture is of me adjusting sound to fade in while the characters voice comes to an end which worked well. To do this you need to select your current audio track, press "ctrl + alt" and press wherever you want your point to be. you need to make two of these points on your audio line that you can see on my picture and the distance between these two points is what's being edited. You just grab one of the dots and drag it up or down to change the volume. (up is louder and down is lower)


This image is a screenshot of all my audio tracks and what i was doing is making sure every piece of audio hits the -12 mark so that its the right volume.

This image that you can see is audio fading out but instead of fading in from a characters voice its going to fade out to match the video footage.

When I was exporting the video what I did was, I went to file, export, media and then selected the format option, pressed "H.264" and then I set the preset to "HD 1080i 25" I then saved the file, renamed it and uploaded it to youtube.

This project was really fun, normally I hate the filming part but love the editing section but in this case I loved the whole project. My green screen film could have been better if I changed some of the images so that the shadows on the film didn't show up and that's what I would of changed about my green screen film if I had to do it again but overall i had fun with this project and i enjoyed it.