Green Screen - Jedi Battle

How did Jordan and Marcy get mixed up in a Jedi battle? And what has made them enemies? I guess we'll never know. But in this scene we see their epic battle and one unfortunate warrior meeting and untimely demise...

So first, I went through all the green screen footage the class shot. Thinking about what I wanted to do, I had the genius idea of putting these two dueling girls into a battle scene. I initially thought, Revolutionary War, or Nam, or something... but then, the light bulb flashed. Star Wars Jedi battle. Oh yes.

I ripped and cut scenes together from this fight scene in Episode II, and cut some parts out of the green screen footage in Final Cut. I also made some lightsabers in Photoshop to add into the final clip as well.

I layered the star wars clip, the green screen clips and the lightsabers in Ae. I colored out the green to get the two girls in the action, then scaled, positioned, rotated the lightsabers in the girl's hands to show them fighting.

The colors were not blending very well together, so I decided to add a Hue/Saturation effect to all the clips and lowered the reds and blues. It really brought out the lightsabers, and I thought it looked pretty cool.

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This thought came about because I've wanted to come up with a name for a production company. Well, I came up with one... but this isn't it. This idea came about because while thinking of a name, I knew I wanted to make my text explode with fire. (because who wouldn't want to do that?) So in using fire, I tried to think of a name that would correspond with the fire, and came up with Extra Flamey Productions.

The process involved layering my fire explosion and text layer. I color corrected both to appear blueish (which I thought looked really cool in comparison to the normal red/orange/yellow fire. Third choice would have been green.) I dissolved between the fire and text to make it a smoother transition. Then to get the fire out at the end, I reversed my original clip. And that's all folks.

3D City

My initial idea didn't come to pass, so I ended up just creating a 3d city and maneuvering a camera up and around it. There's some slight jerkiness to it that I didn't intend, but sometimes, working on a slow computer can do that.

This is, What?...

In celebration of October 1, which was more convenience than planned, my vid has a kickback to nightmare before christmas. Of course, now i'm going to have this song stuck in my head for the next 2 weeks...

I animated my pumpkin with the puppet tool. It was very tough to get it to match with audio in after effects, especially since my audio was acting up the whole time. But I like to think it passes, because how well can a pumpkin really enunciate while singing? I added in several ghosts, creating them from shapes flying out of the walls and changing into their ghostly selves, and flew them around the room.