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Ideas for literally showing a “named document” in a corporate film…?
Hello.
Very dry this, as I am currently in corporate-land video editing, but I have to show *something* when the relevant document is mentioned… so I was wondering if anyone else had some ideas for presenting the document?
I’ve made a digital PDF into layered image files, popped on a drop shadow, and had a very slow scale up, over a gaussian blur’d background video, which is nicer as at least something is moving…
Any other ideas? I am only Premiere/FCP really and my After Effects is limited.
Cheers
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You know who’s good at this, is the editing team at 60 Minutes, as well as 20/20, and those other shows of that kind, worth watching to see their various techniques. Often you’ll see the an establisher of a huge bound volume, then the relevant document will fly in with curling edges that straighten out, and then a relevant “pull quote” or the title of the doc will come up in a close-up layer over the top of the document. Sometimes they give the matte for this a torn paper edge look, sometimes its all just highlighted boxes. generallym, the idea is to somehow break out and magnify the title or the couple of sentences.
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In addition to what Mark said, take a look at the very beginning of this video where you see news paper head lines.
https://reels.creativecow.net/film/ccs-pinky
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