Pleasantville effect

How to label and organize clips in the browser

How to: Simply right click the files selection window, a menu bar will open, click on 'new bin'.

I needed to organize my work into bins, this helped me to keep track of and find my work when needed. I put them into categories of Online (Meaning usable) and offline footage.

This is a screen shot of my bins, with the necessary files inside

Chroma Key Effect

Speech Packages (James Hodges)

43:15 BBC Radio 4, Today 6/12/12

Purpose:  Shadow chancellor Ed Balls explains what he made of the Autumn Statement

Genre: Politics

Audience: The politicians and locals in the areas they empower/help control.

Analysis: This speech package was based on laws, including rises in prices regarding fuel, The economic growth slowing, in the package you hear the politians shouting and debating with raised voices, giving us indication that it is a very serious and has much support from the audience. There were also interviews with Ed balls and a member of the European parliment in which the ressession and public spending are discuss, also the affect of cuttingn taxes. It was a very productive and interesting speech package and help widen the understanding of the where-abouts of the economy.

11/12/2012 6:00 589224 BBC Radio 4 52:27- 57:00
Purpose: The speech package’s purpose was to inform and expose the audience of the critical state of the nation being spoken about.

Genre: Politics

Audience: The audience included people who were interested in politics and leadership, as well as the people who have relevance to the countries/people who were involved.

Analysis: This was a very serious and heart-felt topic as it consisted of the people’s suffering, worries and troubles. This was indicated through the background sounds of chanting, screaming and the loud sounds which were parallel to the voices. It informed the audience of the lack of unity amongst the people and aimed to enlighten the audience on how it has affected the people living there.

1:15 BBC 4 Today 10/12/12

Purpose: To get opinions on people on their way to work in Beijing / to try to gain understanding of what it's like to work in Beijing

Audience: the general public.

Analysis: This speech package was more experimental and less on the serious side. It was more on the experience gaining side, in which the host is traveling in Beijing to get a taste of the lifestyle and common routine of someone in the working class.

7/12/2012 Radio 2 art show 1.10-1.12

7/12/2012 22:00 (1:10-1:15) Radio 2 Artshow

clone effect

What is the clone effect:
Cloning in final cut pro is when you produce visuals of a duplicated item/person/ place etc, it works by giving the illusion that two or more of the same things are in the same place.
This effect can be used to create a scene which maybe includes twins or more of the same item without actually having them in production.

I like the effect however, I think there are much better looking and more reliable ways of getting this effect.

annoying orange effect

The annoying orange effect possesses it's name from the famous 'Annoying Orange', a hit Youtube channel known for it's comedy.

The effect is simply an object that DOESN'T speak or interact on it's own in any way; with a mouth and eyes edited onto it. This give the illusion that the object is speaking and interacting.

Keyframing

What is a Keyframe?
When we set a 'Keyframe' in FCP, which we set on a specific video frame either on the TL (Timeline), in the Viewer, or Canvas windows, we are 'marking' that video frame as the starting place for something to begin changing. When we set a second Keyframe, further down the line, we are marking that video frame as the place were we want the change to be complete. FCP will interpolate or generate all the frames needed between the 2 Keyframes so that the change will happen smoothly, over time.

What can be Keyframed?
Well, in FCP almost everything can be Keyframed. Some of the effects that we can Keyframe are: filters - color, size, opacity, rotate, mattes, masks, blurs, composites and change from color to Black and White. The only filter that can not be Keyframed is the,' de-interlace' filter. We can place any number of Keyframed filters on a clip and have them all running at the same time, all changing independently of each other. Very powerful stuff.

Keyframing
There are almost as many ways to apply Keyframes and work with them as there are things that can be Keyframed. We will start by doing our work in the Viewer window. We are going to change a video clip from color to black & white and then back to color again, over time.
I like to use the 'Sepia' filter which is found in the Image Control folder in the Effects browser. Drag and drop the Sepia filter from the Effects browser onto the clip in the TL. Double click on the clip in the TL to load the filter into the Viewer window and click on the Filters tab.
The first thing you will notice is that the Sepia filter default setting is set to 100 in the Amount box (Red Arrow). The Amount box controls the amount of filter that is applied to the clip. 100 being full filter effect, 0 being no filter effect. To the right of the Amount box you will first see the Keyframe button. Further to the right is the TL. In the TL you will see a horizontal green line. This is what I call the Keyframe line. You will notice that it is all the way at the top of the space as the filter amount is still set to 100. You can click on this Keyframe line and drag up or down to change the amount of the filter that is applied but this will effect the entire clip. The 'Red X' button under the word 'Nav' is the reset button and will return the filter to it's default settings.

(Quoted from: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_keyframing.html)