Design Skills 2

Color grading workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro CC

We used curves to have complete control over our contrast, the curves can be manipulated into giving you complete customization over your contrast. You can use the white curve or any of the three RGB curves but we only used the white contrast curve as we did ours entirely in black and white. The curves give much more control over the contrast slider we originally used. The control of colour is very important to our work, as it plays a big part in giving across our gangster/anti-authority message.

These are adjustment layers, they can be used to apply effects to multiple cuts at once. How they work is that you apply the affect to the adjustment layer instead of the clip, then you can put the layer on your timeline and stretch it as far as you’d like to. Therefore the effects will  apply to every clip that they’re stretched to. This plays a part with the contrast curve that I previously talked about, as we could use the curve on the adjustment layer to find the perfect contrast we wanted then apply it to the entire video at once. This saved us many hours of work and was definitely the biggest timesaver throughout this entire project.

Digipak Draft 1

Our first draft of the front and back of our digipak:

Changes to make:

  • Need to start on our inside panes.
  • Need to make a track list, add copyright information, record labels, etc to the back.
  • We are quite happy with the front but want to make minor changes, such as changing the artist and album name, and maybe changing the picture a bit.

Photoshoot/Design Production Meeting Agenda and Risk Assessment

These are our risk assessment and PMA for our digipak studio shoot, there weren’t many risk involved as we did our shoot on site in the black studio. The PMA is like a form of communication, a document everyone in the group can access to know what they need to bring to the shoot.

 

Our Risk Assessment:

Our Production Meeting Agenda (PMA):

 

Music Video Draft 3

Our 3rd Draft of our Music video:

Targets for improvement:

  • Need to put more of our footage in and spend less time on what we already have.
  • Try to play with the speed a bit, (eg speeding up and slowing down certain shots.)
  • Add some close ups that better show emotion.

Things we are doing well:

  • Pitch black background is very effective with the use of the spotlight.
  • The part where the narrative and performance are faded is good.

Specsavers Feedback

During one of our lessons we had two professional editors come in to give us feedback and tips on our editing.

Lenny taught us all about adjustment layers, these are like effects you can make but instead of having it on a single clip you can drag across your timeline and apply the effect to everything. For example, we are doing our music video in black and white and in our draft 1 we were individually applying the black and white effects to each clip. But now we apply the effect to the adjustment layer, just once, then we can stretch this out  and it will apply to every clip. This is a massive time saver.

Lenny also taught us how to use solids and keyframes, in our music video we use effects to make the backgrounds around our star darker because in the original clip there was a bit of light that we didn’t want. And from this, Lenny showed us how to make a black solid to just cover up the light we didn’t like but this also led to him showing us how we can mask these solids around our star to give off a spotlight kind of effect. Then with keyframes you can move these solids at certain times. For example, if your star is moving around in a clip but you still want to use one of these effects and want it to track on him, you can use these keyframes to individually move around the star at specific times, this led to me and Tyler finding a setting that will do this for you and make loads of keyframes at once so the transition is very smooth.