Lvl 6 - FMP: Learning Agreement

Here is j'y completed Learning agreement establishing the outcomes & objectives that i aim to achieve throughout each of the productions.

Step By Step 10: Pixilation/Ghosting Effect

 So to begin this effect you will need to gather your footage and then you will need to click "alt" and drag the clip above itself to duplicate it. Now that you have your cop you can now go to the effects and presets & select the posterize time option.

So now once you add this effect to the copied clip you will then want to go to the effects options which will open up a frame rate value. I set mine to 6 frames every 24 frames.

I then decided to make the colors pop so i added the RGB colour balance, i took the red a;; the way up to bring out the red lighting & decor.


So then i added a channel blur which allows me to blur out the colors to give a hallucinogenic feel towards it. I did also change it to make sure that the colors ran horizontal, this really highlights the red & adds a lot of flair & gives the feeling of intoxication.

 Here below is the final effect.

Step By Step 9: Prism Effect

Okay so to start with this effect you first want to import your footage. Once you have that in place you then need to go to effects and presets & add in the chosen effect in this case that would be  Replicate.

Okay now that you have dragged that effect onto the footage you will see that your screen looks like the image above, but that all tends on whether you have your count on more than two. so once you have the footage separated into these four squares, its time to create a more unique look tho i have saw this kind of design in fashion advertisements.

So what i did here was try and create a mask so that i could invert the footage itself, this is successfully achieved when you increase the mask expansion. I then added a feathering effect to give the aesthetic a much more pleasing look.

So once that has all been sorted i then chose to select the inverted box, which gave the following effect below. You can see the final effect below he image at the bottom.

Step By Step 7: Strobe Effect

 So to create this effect you first need to import your footage over and drag it into the timeline. Once you have successfully done that you then need to go to your search bar on the effects and presets panel & select the "Strobe" effect.

Once you select the strobe effect this is what you will be seeing, a blank white screen. From here you have several options you can experiment with i tried changing the colour of the strobe as well as changing the speed of the strobes flash and the duration it would last.

 So on the left you can see the options that come with it. One thing that i found very interesting was if you get two clips and put one on top of the other you can create a manually made transition. So this is what i tried to create. I started with changing the strobe color to black.
After that i selected make the layer transparent, this would allow clip 1 to overlap clip 2 as the strobe continues to function. And that is how you can create your own transition using a strobe. But to get the strobe to act out exactly how you want it to go, you will then need to move onto key frames.

So here is where you will create your key frames, i set mine from 100% to 0% after one frame then left a gap until the next clip starts to come in, which i then set the ending of the key frame to 0% to 100% this created the video that you will see below.

Step By Step 8: Masking Effect

This effect is just a useful effect to have in your arsenal, when news reporters catch pedestrians or children in the background they need consent forms otherwise there face is not allowed to be shown. How do you get around it? with masking.

So for this to work i first imported my footage, i selected who's face to blur out & selected the blur i will be using to achieve the best result. I will then drag the blur over to the clip, this will leave me with a bunch of different options for me to tweak & change to get the best look for the mask im after. So once my settings were the way i wanted which you can see in the image below, i started creating the mask itself.

Now obviously because i am masking over a face the ellipse tool is the best for  the job, If you draw over & modify it to the shape of the characters head you will then be able to choose the amount of blur you want surrounding his/her face.

Once you have selected all of your options for the mask you then need it to track whoever is in the background of your shot as you don't want any slip ups. so there is an option to start tracking which will take around 3 to 5 minutes. Once that has rendered you will have something like this , the video clip is located at the bottom.

Step By Step 6: Eyedrop Effect

 So to start this effect you first need to import your footage, i needed some form of footage that has an a ray of colors to really accentuate what this effect can achieve.

So first of all you will need to click "alt" and drag your original clip up to the next timeline creating a duplicate. You will then need to select the eyedropper effect and drag that onto the duplicate. Once you have that set you can move onto the next step.

 So the first thing you will notice is that your screen will be all one color that is because the eyedropper tool takes the color that is in the center if the frame and fills it. So to be able to create the effect im looking for which is a light spill, i needed to change the sample point to 1151.0 % this gave me a better range of color as the center point had changed on the eyedropper.

so now what i needed to do was to make the second layer to have some form of transparency, i achieved this by selecting the opacity & changing the blend mode to "Screen". Below you can see an image of the warm look it creates. I really like this effect it would have great use when trying to accentuate a lovely day. When using this effect you really need a shot with some form of movement as well or you will have a very boring shot, that will do nothing for the effect as it needs movement & color to work.

Below is the finished effect, this is how the effect is suppose to work.

Step By Step 5: Echo Effect

The echo effect is a rather strange one as it displaces time & creates what looks like holograms. it would be good to show time passing by, a character day by day doing the same job, the same walk every day. i Feel like this is how you could depict that kind of effect. I personally really like this effect i think it could be very useful if used correctly . Moreover the way in which i created this effect was through the echo effect itself on the effect & preset menu.

I selected the echo effect & dragged it over to my clip this brought up several options on the effect panel. My first option was to change the time in which it takes for the clones of myself to follow. The next option was to select how many clones i wanted to follow, i chose four at first, then i went up-to six.

After i was finished tweaking with the settings i then started looking at the echo duration the one above is at minimum & the image above that is at maximum these are the two different effects you can create, there was other options but non of them worked, there was too much light. Below is the finished video displaying the effect.