An Introduction to Special Effects

Looking at the Different Special Effects



Videos I Watched:


                                    
'Day 6666'-     This was a short film that used animation, slow motion and overlaying different videos.

                              

                               


'How to get the CINEMATIC LOOK in Premiere Pro'-  This video showed how you can intensify and manipulate the colour in a video. It also showed how to change a video to slow motion and how to crop videos. All these techniques can be used to give the video an overall cinematic look. 

                             

'5 FAST & EASY CREATIVE EFFECTS in Premiere Pro'- It teaches you how to change the overall colour look of the footage and how you can create effects of paint and brush strokes on the footage. It also shows you how to:
-give the footage a metallic look.
-make the footage black and white with a colour outline
- creating  flashing strobes, custom light leak or flare.




                             

'How to use FAKE camera movements in Premiere Pro'- It shows you how to create camera movements from static shots. For example:
- Tilt shots
-Panning
-Dolly Zoom from drone footage 

                             

'My Favourite TRANSITIONS in Premiere Pro'- Talks about different transitions you can use and how to create them. For example, invisible cuts to making the footage flow and seem in the same shot. Also how to create a speed ramp transition.

                             


'5 SKY REPLACEMENT Effects in Premiere Pro'- It teaches you how to add objects into the sky and how to  put a night sky with a day setting. It also shows you how to replace the entire sky using a green screen.

                             


'SHOOT YOUR HEAD OFF like Oliver Tree (Premiere Pro Tutorial)'-  It is a step by step tutorial of how to create a video of someone's head being shot off.


                         


'Pointless Time Travel'- A short clip editing two of the same person in one shot, and has them appear and disappear.








'Time stopper'- having two of one person  in the same shot and  freezing one person whilst everything else carries on moving.







'Little and Large'- having two of the same person in one shot and making someone a giant.




'Making yourself giant'- how to make something, or someone bigger than it is, using a cardboard box.


'Polarize final cut'- includes changing from colour to black and white. It also has one object in colour and everything else in black and white at some points.





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