We sent an email to the company we thought that we had the rights to Shoop, However it had changed, and we redirected the email at the new owners but we did not get a reply. So we just went ahead and used it anyway
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Editing Continues- 3rd December
Today we went up to the edit suit and all of the green screening was finished and we had achieved exactly what we wanted, we had a city skyline scene which worked and looked just as authentic as we needed. Not only this but the majority of the animations of wording was finished as well and fit into the video and looked good and helped create the retro theme that we were after. Also the colour grading was all finished as well and all the colours looked the same on each shot, which helped our music video look a lot better and more professional.
One other change that we made was that we put our video into 4:3 format to also help fit in with the retro 90's theme. However perfecting this took time as the shot had to be moved to the centre of the screen each time in order to create the focus on whoever was at the front, but after a while this was finally done
Now all we need to do is add a few more animated words and then we are there and will have finished the editing process of our music video.
One other change that we made was that we put our video into 4:3 format to also help fit in with the retro 90's theme. However perfecting this took time as the shot had to be moved to the centre of the screen each time in order to create the focus on whoever was at the front, but after a while this was finally done
Now all we need to do is add a few more animated words and then we are there and will have finished the editing process of our music video.
Further editing: Special effects on Adobe programmes
Having finish the final cut for our pop video, he, Oliver Tennant was tasked with creating the special effects for the video.
He was unable to actually begin creating the animations yet due to issues around font, which he will explain later on. Instead, he learnt how to take out the green from our green screen shots. When Matt first explained to me how he could do this, he was slightly confused and thought 'Oh God this could take a while', however he paused and thought about it, and really it is rather simple. All he had to do was press Alt and drag the clip he wanted to work on up to duplicate it, right click and disable the clip. This was so that if it turned out that he didn't like the changes he was about to make he could very easily go back a start again. Next he would right click again and click, 'export to Adobe special effects'. This took him into a seperate application where he would click an option that would highlight the green, then he would check it in Screen Matte, this would show him the whites and blacks. he would make sure that everything he wanted visible in the shot was white, and the green screen was black. Once I had done this he would go back to previous section of what was now hopefully, everything that was there originally but now a black screen. he did this with all 15 of our green screen shots, and already the video was looking better and he am very much looking forward to adding our background of the Los Angeles Skyline at night.

Now adding the special effects is not a simple task, and he decided to begin with searching the worldwide web for the appropriate font. Now, following a recomendation from Matt, he went onto the website Dafont.com.

On here he was able to type out the sentence he would like, so that when he looked through the hundreds, maybe even thousands of fonts available he would be able to get a clear and approximate view of what it would actually look like on screen. he decided to go with "I want to Shoop Baby"
He did this, and decided that category wise my best bet was to search through the 'comic' section. On entering this he was faced with a whole spectrum of different comic looking fonts. On trawling through these he struggled to make a decision as it was after all quite a big one to make without the help from my group, therefore he made a short list of seven, in which he has a favourite, so here they are.
He gave a brief insight into his thought processes he had when short listing some of them.
Number 1: I feel that this one is nice, however the fuzz around it may make it harder to read, which could be a real problem as the words will not appear on screen for a particularly long time.
Number 2: This one is also nice, however I don't think that it is 80's enough and could appear tacky
Number 3: I love this one and it is in fact my favourite. It is clear, easy to read, and is slightly wonky, giving it that 80's look.
He was unable to actually begin creating the animations yet due to issues around font, which he will explain later on. Instead, he learnt how to take out the green from our green screen shots. When Matt first explained to me how he could do this, he was slightly confused and thought 'Oh God this could take a while', however he paused and thought about it, and really it is rather simple. All he had to do was press Alt and drag the clip he wanted to work on up to duplicate it, right click and disable the clip. This was so that if it turned out that he didn't like the changes he was about to make he could very easily go back a start again. Next he would right click again and click, 'export to Adobe special effects'. This took him into a seperate application where he would click an option that would highlight the green, then he would check it in Screen Matte, this would show him the whites and blacks. he would make sure that everything he wanted visible in the shot was white, and the green screen was black. Once I had done this he would go back to previous section of what was now hopefully, everything that was there originally but now a black screen. he did this with all 15 of our green screen shots, and already the video was looking better and he am very much looking forward to adding our background of the Los Angeles Skyline at night.

Now adding the special effects is not a simple task, and he decided to begin with searching the worldwide web for the appropriate font. Now, following a recomendation from Matt, he went onto the website Dafont.com.

On here he was able to type out the sentence he would like, so that when he looked through the hundreds, maybe even thousands of fonts available he would be able to get a clear and approximate view of what it would actually look like on screen. he decided to go with "I want to Shoop Baby"
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He gave a brief insight into his thought processes he had when short listing some of them.
Number 1: I feel that this one is nice, however the fuzz around it may make it harder to read, which could be a real problem as the words will not appear on screen for a particularly long time.
Number 2: This one is also nice, however I don't think that it is 80's enough and could appear tacky
Number 3: I love this one and it is in fact my favourite. It is clear, easy to read, and is slightly wonky, giving it that 80's look.
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Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Editing Continues- 2nd December
Finally after finishing all the performance pieces of the video it was time to start adding the animatics which is something we had all been anticipating.
For example one of the things we added animatics to, was the first shot of our video. In which the girls were in the background and in the foreground was the boombox, from which we animated the words 'heyyyy yeahhhhh, i wanna shoop baby' coming out of it. Then we added a few more to other shots.
We had the same font and colour for all of the animations, the font being Diego con and the text being block white. However they can in at different angles and what not. We chose to put around 7 animations into the video, all on different shots to help create an emphasis. But on the one with the phone number popping out, we are unsure of it and aren't sure it works very well.
Then we went onto colour grading, which we are using in order to even out the colours and help again give our video a more of a retro feel. However this was a hard job as much of the lighting was different so it was hard to get all of the colours the same.
Overall its been a very busy morning which has taken up a lot of time, as we also had to make the green screen perfect, with an appropriate background which fits the theme and had to change the white and black balance to avoid any shimmering outlines.
For example one of the things we added animatics to, was the first shot of our video. In which the girls were in the background and in the foreground was the boombox, from which we animated the words 'heyyyy yeahhhhh, i wanna shoop baby' coming out of it. Then we added a few more to other shots.
We had the same font and colour for all of the animations, the font being Diego con and the text being block white. However they can in at different angles and what not. We chose to put around 7 animations into the video, all on different shots to help create an emphasis. But on the one with the phone number popping out, we are unsure of it and aren't sure it works very well.
Then we went onto colour grading, which we are using in order to even out the colours and help again give our video a more of a retro feel. However this was a hard job as much of the lighting was different so it was hard to get all of the colours the same.
Overall its been a very busy morning which has taken up a lot of time, as we also had to make the green screen perfect, with an appropriate background which fits the theme and had to change the white and black balance to avoid any shimmering outlines.
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