Transitions
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When creating and editing my footage, I quickly realised that the transitions were a crucial part of the end result. I noticed that without thoroughly thinking about how each transition would work, and just letting the footage cut from clip to clip, the video seemed unrefined and lacked flow. Because of this, I had properly think how I was to cut from each clip, of course there was a variety of pre-made transitions to choose from on Davinici, yet they felt largely unproffesional and took away from the actual footage, drawing too much attention to the transiton rather than the footage. I decided I wanted to continue the retro and nostalgic theme that my colour grading was aiming to achieve, and therefore I decided to choose to use a "film burn" effect too quickly yet seemlessly cut between clips. I loved how it turned out yet I knew that I wanted to try something more complex, and make use of my mixed media. Therefore I came up with the idea of having my subject walk away and reveal a clip behind him, creating my own transition.
The process:
Physically creating the transition.
During the mixed media process, I began to choose the frames that I wanted to use for my transition, a total of 16 frames (pieces of paper) were chosen. I began by carefully cutting around the subject frame by frame, however I made sure to only cut inside of the piece of paper, instead of cutting it in half, as I needed to make sure each frame was alligned up properly in the scanner. Originally I hoped to be able to scan each frame in a png, so that there was automatically no background where I cut out. However I soon realised that this was not possible, and was instead substituted for the white back of the scanner.
To begin, with I opened up each scan onto a photoshop file, creating 16 layers. Once I made sure they were all alligned, I began individually cutting out each background using the pen tool. This took a long time but it was crucial to get right as I wanted the transition to be a seamless as possible.
I then used a second node, to adjust the white balance which was the most significant part in changing the colour of the clip. In the colour wheel panel, I went the gain channel and brought the colours slightly towards a green, this way I would have the green undertone that I was trying to achieve.
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