*A Recent Clip I Wanted To Share With You All*

GmElliott wrote on 7/13/2004, 10:52 AM
The following is a clip I recently completed for an opening vignette to a project I'm doing regarding the Nurses Day Celebration at my work. I was very heavy on the filters etc- to try and spruce up the otherwise drab shots. The day was very hot and hazy which gave everything a very grey look. Vegas 5 did a great job of offering the filters, etc to help artistically color correct the footage and make it look more interesting.

Comments are welcome- positive or negative. Thanks.

http://home.comcast.net/~g.elliott3/HSA_Opening_Vignette.wmv



I had an oval



With the Rack Focus shot I added a Secondary Color Corrector to remove the color of the walls in the background giving the flowers focus. Overall it started as a colorful shot and could have gone either way but I felt greyscaling the background put more emphasis on the flowers...as I wanted the focus to be the rack focus on them- without it the overall colorfullness of the image distracts from the effect:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/LazerBlueP5/V5%20Flower%20RackF.jpg



With the road shot in the beginning I had to do a bunch of filtering to make this shot interesting. The day was hot and INCREDIBLY humid giving everything a greyish haze. I added a Color Corrector first to help boost the saturation, and lower the black point to give it more contrast. The image still had a discernable humidity haze so I decided to work with it and actually accentuate it using a Glow filter. The 2nd video track with the Color Gradient vignette particularly adds to the depth in this shot:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/LazerBlueP5/V5%20Road.jpg


There wasn't too much I did to the close-up rose shot. Just a simple Color Corrector to boost saturation and the ongoing vignetting from the Color Gradient:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/LazerBlueP5/V5%20Rose%20CU.jpg



The flower/sign shot is a good example of what I like the Color Gradient vignette to do. This shot was completly unaltered apart from the vignetting. I feel, IMO, it added some depth to the shot and made it a bit more interesting:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/LazerBlueP5/V5%20Sign%20Vignette.jpg



For the tree tops shot I added a Color Corrector to help add contrast, and boost the saturation of the leaves a bit. I then added a Glow filter to bring out the light peeking behind the leaves:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/LazerBlueP5/V5%20Tree%20Tops.jpg

Comments

Lawrence wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:11 AM
A well done opening -I like it especially the road shot.
A nice state New Jersey. A lively music will go well with it.
Grazie wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:14 AM
.. just too good .. . beautiful .. timing and working with the music I really appreciated this . . stunning and quite emotional .. you held my attention perfectly and the pace was very well thought through .. .

I've got it running as I write this .. I'm going to show it to my partner and anybody else here in London I can grab hold of .. .



Thank you . . .


.. g
GmElliott wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:17 AM
wow- thank YOU.
Undisclosedpower wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:19 AM
Wow, thats amazing wish I could do editing like that! Ah well time to get down and learn I suppose.
murk wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:29 AM
Nice looking edits
jkrepner wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:46 AM
That was terrible! Just Kidding. It looks real nice and seems and your use of effects/filters seems to really work well in pulling all the source material together into one cohesive piece. Thanks for sharing it with us and taking the time to explain the processes involved. I haven't used the secondary color correction that much, I didn't realize that it was possible to pull the color down in one area, while keeping it in another. (there must be more to it) I wish my full time job was editing and not sitting in this damn office - I want to get home and try some of that stuff.
Chienworks wrote on 7/13/2004, 11:47 AM
Absolutely stunning! Very beautiful.

I do have one quibble though (as usual). The oval fade thing into the flag seemed out of place. Everything else in the video is very real, but that is very abstract. I see a sudden white blob and i keep trying to place it in with everything else and it just doesn't fit. Perhaps you could use that shape to fade into the flag rather than going through white first.

Other than that, there's nothing else i can find fault with.

apit34356 wrote on 7/13/2004, 12:03 PM
Very nice!

AJP
GmElliott wrote on 7/13/2004, 12:14 PM
Yes I know exactly what your talking about. It's the vignette track I created above the video- on a completly white screen it stands out. I considered going back and "cutting" that section out so when it fades to white it's ALL white but I got lazy I suppose. It was around 3am last night when I finished it. I can go back and tweak it today though. Thanks for the critique, much appreciated.
GmElliott wrote on 7/13/2004, 12:21 PM
Thank you kindly. Yes I work a full time job as well- plus two major side jobs, wedding videography and freelance graphic design. It's very difficult to keep up. I picked up training discs on AE and simply haven't had the time to watch them- despite my angst in wanting to learn that program. I also have an ongoing project I have no IDEA when I'm going to complete...my 2005 Wedding Videography Demo. I have about 15-20 tapes yet to capture and HOURS upon HOURS of sorting.
It never seems like enough hours in a day does it! lol
Grazie wrote on 7/13/2004, 12:42 PM
I'm renaming you .. . OurGEM!

Thank you again for sharing ..

Grazie
Jessariah67 wrote on 7/13/2004, 1:26 PM
Nice work, Glen. I especially liked the cookie cutter color/bw with the ballons. Nice.
epirb wrote on 7/13/2004, 4:57 PM
Nice work Gm, I really liked your framing / perspective with the tree in the foreground and other trees down the road with the slow pan!
Nice composition.
RichR wrote on 7/13/2004, 6:38 PM
Excellent, excellent work. It has a very cinematic quality to it. The only problem I have is, I'm expecting a drama, not a celebration. It just seems kind of heavy. Beautiful work though.
stormstereo wrote on 7/13/2004, 6:45 PM
Oh yeah! I love this. The 16:9 format, the moving instead of zooming, the camera work, the post. Very professional and filmlike!
Best/Tommy
RalphM wrote on 7/13/2004, 7:45 PM
Excellent - I'm humbled....
Lanzaedit wrote on 7/13/2004, 8:43 PM
Looks great. The music has a definite serious tone, so I don't know if it works for this project, since you mentioned it's a celebration.

Keep that music around for a documentary...or better yet, let me know what music that is, and I'll put it in my doc :~)

John
GmElliott wrote on 7/13/2004, 8:54 PM
Excellent, excellent work. It has a very cinematic quality to it. The only problem I have is, I'm expecting a drama, not a celebration. It just seems kind of heavy. Beautiful work though.

I'm cursed- it's the wedding videographer coming out in me. I make everything sooo dramatic. lol Thanks all for the kind words! It's really encouraging....
GmElliott wrote on 7/13/2004, 9:00 PM
The track is titled "Reunited" off the Children of Dune (TV mini series) soundtrack. The composer's name is Bryan Tyler- he's done numerous theatrical scores- yet I feel this particular (mostly obscure) Television score is the best of his career.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/13/2004, 9:04 PM
Man that is so awesome, I had to watch it twice. I am truly in awe. I wish I could shoot footage like that. I try, but you really have an eye for angles. If you hadn’t told us what you did in post, I wouldn’t have thought you did anything but the desaturation on the tables, balloons and rack focus shot. Everything else is so subtle it just looks natural. And the music was perfect. Very well done. Bravo!

~jr
Stonefield wrote on 7/13/2004, 9:16 PM
Very well done. Good mood and great photography. Nice Job !

Stan
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/14/2004, 12:10 AM
Glenn,
you gonna make it to DV Expo? I'd love to meet you!
Very nice work indeed.
kentwolf wrote on 7/14/2004, 12:21 AM
Very 1st class.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 7/14/2004, 5:59 AM
Wow, that looks great! Great shooting as well as great post.

- David