Technical skills

When in the post production phase of our music video, we used some technical skills to make the video more aesthetically pleasing. Some of these skills were…

1. Adjustment layers

Adjustment layers are where you can add effects to multiple clips at one time, rather than adding the effect to all the seperate clips. This was helpful when editing because if we wanted to change the effect then we only had to change it once rather than changing it on every single clip. It ended up saving us loads of time that we then used on improving the rest of the video. The effects that we used on the adjustment layer were colour correction and lens distortion, which added lots to the video as without this the colours looked very dull and now the video is vibrant and colourful.

 

2. Colour correction

We used the colour wheel to colour correct our video to match the high-energy feel to the video. We increased the saturation and the vibrance of the video as the raw clip was shot on a very dull, grey day so the colour correction was vital in making the video look how it does now.

 

3. Lens Distortion

We used lens distortion to create a fish-eye lens effect by increasing the curvature. This fits in with the 90s- early 2000s theme as cameras with fish-eye lenses were very popular with the youth at the time. This further adds to the idea that our video is a home-made video by a band in the early 90s.