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2 questions about the look of “field of view”
Hi Everybody,
i’ve just watched the new epidsode of “field of view” with chuck peters on digitaljuice.
https://www.digitaljuice.com/djtv/segment_detail.asp?sid=127&sortby=&page=1&kwid=0&show=this_week
i love the show and i love especially the look of the show.
now i have got two questions about the current episode.
at first, how could i create these glowing strokes which appears in the episode every few seconds (for example at playtime 58 sec)
i can’t see any special structure…is it just another video-layer with a few effects?
secondly, do you have some tips on how to create the look of the show? i mean these glowing whites and these cool looking contrasts!i love it!
the authors description on the look of the show is very vague, so do you have any ideas which techniques i could use in after effects to get such results?
here’s the description on how the author created the look:We’re shooting Field of View at 720p on a Panasonic HVX200, Perry is giving me great stuff to work with. (Even though we’re shooting video I may intersperse film terms with the video jargon as well.) Depending on what we’re looking to achieve, some of the footage is underexposed or overexposed so we can push or pull particular details, I’ll explain more as you read on. In my editing app I’m doing multiple steps to composite the final image. Currently I’m not using any particular plug-in, not that I object to it, I just found a method that I like the results from. I have a few methods that depend on the shot and the original footage. it basicaly involves an initial color correction of the footage to get the tones we want. Then I layer the video doing a second pass that brings out some details in the dark areas or burns other dark spots. Then I do a third pass that plays with the highlights, sometimes giving it a slight softening to the highlights along with some slight color adjustments. Many times these level adjustments, done to multiple passes of the same footage cause some artifacting that dirties up the footage giving it an almost grain like quality. Then we’re matting out the footage with the soft edge frame that you see. I’m sorry this is so vague because this process is really contingent on the footage and what our end goal is, but hopefully this at least answers part of your question.
i hope you can give me some advices and tips!
thanks
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Those squiggles that appear look like they are Strokes on a layer above with Gaussian Blur applied and then set to Add Mode. The mask for the stroke just looks completely random. They look like they travel upwards (toward -and off- the top of the frame). So maybe the solid on which the Stroke is applied is 200% the height of the video frame.
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Good point, DLR.
What I’d “leave out of the stew” would be that vignette. It looks really bogus. Especially as the video is embedded on a blue background.
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i like the vignette.
in my opinion it underlines the dream-effect of the show but maybe they should just use it in flashbacks.
is there any plugin or technique on how i can create these strokes?i’ve played around with the blending-modes and got some good results but it looked totally different from the show. -
I’m going to play the Dave LaRonde card here, so bear with me:
If you want exactly the effect that you see in that video, why don’t you ask them to go ahead and make it for you? I mean, they conceived the effect and implemented it, the least they can do is come over your house and put it in your video, right?
My point is, use that effect as a starting point to expand your creative horizons. No one gets any where just copying other people’s stuff.
Unless it’s me being Dave. Then it’s all good.
Good luck, Simmi.
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You may be right that those squiggles are created in AE, but to me they look very much like the beginning/end of a reel of developed film. What I think it is is notes written on the film negative in black marker which becomes white when the film is printed. He probably took a digitized version of this and used the “add” blend mode. If you wanted to create your own you could probably just write a sentence with black marker on a white piece of paper, scan it, apply a negative effect to the colors, and overlay it on your video. You would also want to animate it moving up rapidly, maybe at 12fps and a lot of motion blur. Maybe add a wiggle expression as well to make it jittery.
P.S. I’ll have to side with Dave and iancorey- the vignette looks cheesy. -
thanks for all your answers!
when i watched the show all i thought was “wow”
i don`t want to copy that look-everything i wanted to know was how the technique behind these strokes work.
shows like “field of view” inspires me for my own projects!
thanks for all your help!
simmizi
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