Madonna “Get Together” Music Video Tutorials?

[Ryan Hill]

There’s a lot of things going on in that video. Could you narrow it down a little?

[Chip Babbitt]

I pretty much want to know everything that went on in the video so that I can replicate it as best as possible. There’s not just one thing that I need to know but all of it.

Thanks.

[Steve Roberts]

When doing this sort of thing, you need to do more than search the COW. If there are any behind-the-scenes articles, they probably won’t be here — they’ll be in an interview somewhere or on the designers’ site(s). Look for the terms that are likely to be in the kind of article you want to find.

Google “madonna” “get together” and “after effects”, just in case AE was used on this.

It worked for me.
https://www.drownedmadonna.com/modules.php?name=nathaniel_howe

That should get you started. Search some more based on what you find there.

[Chip Babbitt]

Thanks for tip on searching. Still havent found anything anywhere on the net regarding the
technical aspect of the video. So I guess I will ask a more specific question in hopes that someone can help me.

How do I recreate the Color Technique (“retro-color”) that is the main FX of the video itself?

I checked the video tutorial of Cartoonification, but that has nothing to do with this video and more to do with the Waking Life technique.

Thanks again
Chip

[Steve Roberts]

Did you try mixing Colorama and Find Edges into your technique?

[Chip Babbitt]

Yes. And the problem that I got was that it was an overall color scheme, where as in the video, each part of Madonna was distinct in what was “hair” color, “Skin” color, “clothes” color.

[Steve Roberts]

Then you need to separate those different items first, so they get treated differently. The best way would be to dress the talent in clothes of completely different colours, then key. It’ll still be a fair bit of work, but if you want to treat things in footage differently, you need to key them or mask them.

[Ryan Hill]

Try de-saturate, posterize, followed by colorama. Of course, the very first thing you should do is key out the background. You could also use something like “Leave Color” and “Color Replace” if you want some more complicated results.