Post Production

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 picture from google and copied them into PhotoShop. We used the still images of the mood, 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 background, I positioned all the actors and props. The end step is to render it in order to save the colours and postions of the images.

Set Design/Lighting

This set design and lighting is our plan for the band. Above the band, we planned to have a circling white light which we did use in the real video, however we tried using the red glow lights at the sides. We came to the conclusion that with one circling white light we could achieve a better effect.

The office was not used in the shoot due to a shortage of time. To the left of the diagram, there are an example of drawn office booths that we could have built with screens. To the right of the picture which is an example of the office, there is an example of a conference room. As for the lighting, we would have used very bright white light to get the feel of an office.

There was an idea for an outside set. We would have created this set in the studio. All of the walls would have been covered in graffiti. In terms of lighting, we wanted to create a night-time effect by putting lamp posts in and yellow street lights. We decided not to use this set due to out change in set idea where we green screened all the locations which were previously planned.