Lesson: Testing Effects

In today's lesson, we started to upload our good footage onto final cut pro, working out which shots are most suited for a specific part of the song. For example, during the instrumental parts, we were thinking of showing a background journey of the artist walking towards a location, using close up shots to make the opening of the song engaging to the audience. These are some notes we made during the lesson to remember how to do the slow motion effect and how to adjust the saturation to turn our footage to a black and white format.

In addition to this, we used the colour corrector tool to turn our opening footage into a black and white format, adjusting the saturation / contrast levels to make it look more vivid and match the style of genre which we are aiming for. During the lesson we also found some constructive tutorials on how to create a slow motion effect on our footage, which resulted with us trying it out on our footage to see if it was well suited. We also aim to use this effect on our smashing glass footage, slowing down the duration, in order to create an atmospheric effect, especially once it has been formatted into black and white, expressing the elements of the indie genre.

This is the video which we used to inform us on how to do the slow motion effect: