POST-PRODUCTION

The jump from the AS Main Task to the Pop Promos was a huge changement of media and technological knowledge for me. In the AS Main Task, we used PD170 Sony Cameras which recorded footage on tape while this year we used a more advanced method of recording with X5 HD Sony Cameras which as a result were much better seeing that recordings were done on a hard drive and the footage is in HD.

Most of our Pop Video was set in front of green screen. The editing was all revolved around after effects. To make the background, we selected pictures from Google and copied them into PhotoShop. We used the still images of the moon, sky and streets as props that could be moved to fit the background.



The next step in after effects was the keying of the actors. This is done by selecting after affects from the menu and click on keylight. This is used to adjust the colour of the actors into the green screen . Then you have to click on the eye dropper to pick the screen colour (green) and click on combines matte to make the black invisible and the white colour stay.

To balance out the black and white on the actors, you have to adjust the Hue Saturation by turning it down.

Once all the colours are synced into each other, including the bacgkround, I positioned all the actors and props.
The end step is to render it in order to save the colours and positions of the images.