Production Log - 10/1/18

For the last part of the video, propaganda will need to be displayed on the TV. I created a composition for the footage, so I could add effects such as grain, and alter the brightness and contrast of the footage, to the stock footage. I then added the same effects to the ventriloquist footage in the church and cut between the two clips, as if the TV was glitching between the two sets of footage. I added a glitch effect to both of the clips so the footage looks like it is breaking whilst it is in the water.

To put the footage on the TV within the scene, I masks to remove the empty screen of the TV. I then inverted the mask so the rest of the background would be seen. I then duplicated the layer then un-inverted the mask on the new layer so the empty TV screen and the background would be separated. I then hid the TV screen, and places the footage in place rotating and scaling it to fit the screen. By putting the footage at the bottom of the composition, the punched hole in the background layer, means that the footage will show through. I then places the original TV screen back on top of the footage and scaled down the opacity, so the footage can be seen but the reflections of the environment and grey colour can be shown on top of the footage. This makes the footage look like it has been playing on the screen of the TV whilst filming. 

To sort out the reflections of the footage that has been placed on the TV in the water below, I duplicated the footage, flipped to recreate a reflection, and then masked the footage to the size of the reflection. Lowering the opacity and flicking through the blending modes, I could make the reflection look as if the footage was on the TV at the time of filming.

I then added a camera to the footage made all of the layers 3D, and key-frames the point of interest and position of the camera to a good looking composition at the end of the zoom. I then converted the key-frames to easy-ease so the camera would move smoothly into the new composition like a zoom effect as if it was done on the camera.

To make the clip look much better I added vignetting to the edges of the footage and colour correction. This makes the clip look much better as it brings out the colours in the original footage. The vignetting gives the clip an old style feel with suits the genre and age of music.