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"

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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.

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