Composing my remix went exactly how I wanted it go go. I first started by choosing songs that I truly enjoyed listening which came out to Contact – Logic and Burn it Up All Night – Sweet Talker both of which are not Creative commons/public domain. The first picture above is a transition that I created using masking tool in After Effects which can also be done in Premiere. For this “scope transition” one simply crops out the parts they want. For the entire scope, I split it into four quadrants and each one became a separate layer. This allowed me to manipulate the quadrants as I pleased without affecting the other three. This was important to the video because it was probably the best effect I created. It took the most time, and yet it looks fairly simple.
The next picture above was one that looks like a “bubble” forming. This effect, however, can only be done using After Effects. One must use the CC Lens effect in the color correction tab. However, in order to do this one must first duplicate the layer they want the effect on. Afterwards, they keyframe the scale of CC Lens from 0(start) to 500(finish). This was very important because it allows for a very nice, smooth effect. It blended in well with video and added some flare to the remix rather than something very dull.
This last picture is creating my messing with the scale effect which can be done in either After Effects or Premiere. It is simply done by scaling the black bars at the bottom and at the top to a greater percentage i.e 125% instead of 100%. After this, there was also a “pump” effect created for the clip itself. This was also done through the scale effect. Except this time one has to keyframe first at 125% then go down to 100%. The “pump” effect allows the viewer to understand that what just happened was fairly important.
The original versions were extremely different than my remix. They were all separate clips but now are all combined into one video.My favorite part of the video was around the 9 second mark. If you listen closely to the music, all the “pump” effect lines up perfectly with the song. Each strong beat is in sync when the middle part gets larger. My least favorite part was the ending of the remix. This is due to the slow mo at the end. It is extremely sloppy and the frames did not blend well at all together even if I tried to improve the frames per second. Overall, that was the only bad slow mo where the rest was very good.
There are many effects I got to use, but many that I didn’t. For example, my favorite plug-in for After Effects is called Twitch. It allows the user to do an RGB (Red-Gren-Blue) split between a video allowing for a very cool effect. I could have used this and CC Lens at the same time which would have looked even better. Another thing I wished I could have used was CC Tiler. CC Tiler comes as a preset in After Effects, allowing for very cool transitions. However, I could not find anyway to incorporate into my video; therefore, I did not used it. If I were able to revise my video, I would use all of these plugins and hopefully make everything smoother and more entertaining to watch.
