The Hitchcocks

 Glitch Effects Using a tutorial that I found online, I tested a simple glitch effect using after effects that I could use at the end of my draft video as a spectacle. This was influenced on Liane's glitch experimentation and Kate's 3D emboss effect.  I added a wiggle effect to the displacement map and a random seed for the noise to get the glitch effect to work.  I then also made separate layers for changing the red green and blue values separately using the shift channels modifier. These were then all connected to the controller empty layer to make it easier when changing the glitch parameters. Once I was happy changing the parameters, I then added the glitch effect three times to the footage that I chose. I was really happy with the end result and I think it ended up looking very cool. For the final video, I ended up using this effect two more times as quick glitches. Once in the b-roll footage at the start of the video to hint at what was to come later in the video....

  I was experimenting with some more effects in premiere for the scene where the masked character is revealed. First I made the sequence by putting together some of the shots of Dylan falling then looking up so we know the shot is from his perspective. Next for the shot of the character taking off his mask I duplicated the layer and made the opacity of one 50% and scaled it up to 130. This made the shot look like it was swirling like double vision. For the next try I used the same steps as above except this time I chose the opacity mode: Colour, next I added the Emboss effect to the clips, under the effects panel I began changing the settings for Direction, Relief and Contrast to create the 3D effect and bring out the red colour. 3D emboss effect: https://youtu.be/8_2SxLdUlV4 Opacity test: https://youtu.be/nH4bIM2c6Fs

For this, I used a tutorial online. I made a solid layer over the video with a fractal noise effect, then I edited the width and height of it, and precomposed the layer. I then used a displacement map on an adjustment layer and blended it with the noise layer. I alt clicked random seed too and wrote in time*10 for movement. I added a motion tile effect on the adjustment layer with mirrored edges to offset the cropping. Then I precomposed all layers, and added a shift channel effect, duplicated the layer twice and for each I turned off one of the red, green or blue channels. I changed the first two layers blending mode to screen, and added opacity keyframes to each. Then I alt clicked position and wrote wiggle(2,200).  Then I precomposed those layers and created a new adjustment layer and added an optics compensation effect and reversed the lens distortion. I alt clicked view centre and wrote in wiggle(5,1000). I then added keyframes for the field of view. I then added a radial blur...

 Once the rotoscoping was finished and rendered, I moved on to do a draft of the full edit. We wanted to have as much effects and transitions in  the video as possible to make it stand out, and for this I has a few ideas.   Duplicating Dylan                                  When making the song I panned some of the vocals                      left and right and had them come in at certain points,                      so I duplicated the rotoscoped layer of Dylan twice                      and changed their positions. Using the Lumetri Color                      effect I brought down the blue and red levels on the ...

 Draft Edit Link :  https://youtu.be/gYMW3Oa89Ok Sequence 1 I divided the edit into two sequences due to my file slowing down on playback. I later realised that this was unnecessary as I just needed to render the work areas as I went through. The audio was too loud initially so I had to reduce the music by a little bit. Adding cross dissolve transitions to black to imitate a blinking effect. Alluding to the video being a dream or completely in his head. I was cutting to he beat of the music as well by looking at the audio wave levels. Added warp stabilizer video effect to smoother out the b-roll footage and to calm down the pace of the song. As the jumping scene was recorded in 120 fps for this, we were able to smoothly slow down the footage to fit the pacing of the song and context of the scene. I also used Optical Flow as the time interpolation method as I think it looks less choppy and more fluid. I then had to scale this footage up due to it being being only 1080p as this ...

 We all individually did up a draft edit of the final cut. The purpose of this was to potentially find ideas in the edit that we could include in the final cut. Due to limitation with my pc I could only render the first minute or so, but was still able to gave ideas in that space of time.  I also used the warp stabilizer effect in premiere pro, to help stabilize the footage for the first 15 seconds or so of the video. The clips we shot were every so slightly shaky, but this effect gives a nice smoothness to them.  I also used a nested sequence for the party scene. Since there was the rotoscoped part of Dylan lip syncing, and also the fast forwarded background, it was easier to work with under one sequence rather than 2 separate clips.