Wednesday 15 August 2012

Matte

When editing we used the effects of 'Matte' this allows us to cut around and particular object or shape and change the colour effects of it while keeping the background the original setting, this is something we thought that would be really effective in a music video as we can specifically have a certain object that stands out against the background. 

We used this effect in our preliminary video on the close up shot of the poppy (0.36) we thought this shot would be the most effective shot to use as the colour red of the poppy stands out against the background. To use this we traced the outline of petals by dragging points around the petals that cut out the outline of the petal shape, this allowed us to keep the brightness of the red petals, however as shown in the video because of the movement of the poppy the poppy went out of the outline that we put around the petals, so the poppy turns into the colour of the background. This is something we need to concentrate on and make sure that we trace each movement of the object we will use in our final video, however we did this roughly and just wanted to show the idea of using this effect and see how it would work and if it would work effectively. This is something that we need to use in our final video as it will give a unique and make the shot stand out when we our using this effect in the video.