Lotus Project:



Radiohead Mash Up – Take On Me:

Our third preliminary exercise involved us using Radiohead’s official video for their single “Lotus Flower” and choosing a brand new song of our choice use that soundtrack to re-edit Radiohead’s video in order to show off the skills we had learnt over the past year, demonstrating how we could edit and place segments of the official video and make sure that each shot fit in with the beat of the song.  Additionally, we were able to use the ‘reverse’ technique and speed the images up again in order to make the video appear more gripping. We also wanted to be able to show off our ability of being able to create and use special effects in order to make the video seem more imaginative and creative.

The screen grab highlighted to the right of the screen illustrates where both Khushel and I experimented with the video timeline and used a pen technique to either decrease and increase the lighting of the image, allowing us to create a shadowy effect. You are able to achieve this effect by copying the original video and pasting it onto another timeline for example V1 and V2, making sure that one video is slightly over lapping the other. By tweaking the levels using the pen technique you can then create second delays so one video will start a few seconds after the first one has started therefore creating a shadowy effect since you had previously tweaked the lighting levels. (SCREEN GRAB TO COME OF TIMELINE)

In this screen grab we decided to use one of the special effects provided to us on Final Cut Express, that is, ‘Mirror Effect’ which does exactly as it says. It splits the image in half and mirrors it on the other side of the screen, duplicating the image. We thought that this would be a creative, interesting and artistic effect to use as it would bring something different to the video and perhaps capture more people’s attention.

Finally, we used a ‘blinking’ technique whereby two of our selected shots depicted a fast paced blinking effect which made the shots seem more exciting and enthralling. It also makes the footage appear to be playing faster than it really is which thankfully fit in well with the beat of our audio. This effect definitely was one of my favourite effects to use as it amplified the visual image.