Green Screen

Split Screen

Using Key Frames

Colour Manipulation and Effects

FINAL CUT MASTER CLASSES

TECHNIQUES EXPLAINED• Green screen technology is the basis of the effects seen in everything from the

latest Hollywood blockbusters to the weather forecast. The idea is simple. If you shoot a video with a single coloured backdrop (blue or green is often used) ‘Chroma Key’ allows you to make that colour transparent - replacing it with any other video clip, graphic or still image.

• Split Screen – having more that one image on the screen at the same time. It can be different images with different framing, the same image copied and made to look like a checkerboard, the same figure reproduced in the same background, layering one image on top of another

• Keyframing allows you to alter the appearance of the video by adding special effects part way through so they fade up or down, make the frame/shot to be bigger or smaller, to move from side to side or even move it across the screen

• Colour manipulation and effects allows you do more that just make a clip black and white, brighter or darker. You have total control and create effect from films like Sin City, Pleasantville and add tints (subtly as well a obviously) – you will choose about 10 to demonstrate (some simple, some complex)

PAST STUDENT WORK – WHAT TECHNIQUES CAN YOU SPOT?• Turning Day – Get Up

• Mumford and Son – The Cave

• Vampire Weekend – A Punk (Student Resources)

• Regina Spektor – US (Student Resources)

• Rust Root – Send me on my way

• Kate Perry – I kissed a girl

• Marina and the Diamonds – Radioactive

OTHER EXAMPLES OF PAST WORK TO WATCH IN YOUR OWN TIME.

• Lou Bega – Mambo Number 5

• Bullet for My Valentine – Dignity

• Madness – The Sun and The Rain

• The Summer Set – Punch Drunk Love

• The XX – Islands

• Kanye West – Street Lights

• Six Sixty – Crash

• And don’t forget there are lots on the blog

TASK – TO CREATE ‘SCREEN CASTS’ THAT DEMONSTRATE HOW TO DO YOUR FINAL CUT SKILL

1. In your groups plan what skills you are going to demonstrate

2. Plan what footage you need

3. Film that footage as a group

4. Learn how to do your skill (using youtube tutorials, expertise of group members , online manuals etc)

5. Script your screencast

6. Make your screencast using Quicktime or Final Cut (I will show you how to do this)

7. If necessary edit your screencast and create a file for the student recourses folder. Good chance to play with the new version of Final Cut