Week 1
Haze and Depth Techniques
- Changing the look and feel of the shot by adding fake haze which gives an illusion of a city being very polluted or in a disaster using simple mask and Colo corrections.
Smoke Luma Key
- Here we have a plate and a smoke with bluescreen, we can use the luma key to get the alpha
- While merging it is better to use the over operation instead of the screen since we already made a premult, so the screen operation will make the smoke more transparent and inaccurate.
- Below is the right method to merge the smoke to the plate.
- We use the edge extend in alpha to get the lost details in the smoke.
Luma key Inverted
- Using luma key the opposite way and exploring some blending techniques.
- Using the blur plate as an average for the smoke to blend the smoke to the environment.
- transforming the layer to a desired place.
smoke LumaKey Log
- Treating the plate as a Log to get more flat and unsaturated color.
- Through this method we can get more details while keying a footage.
WEEK 03
The Lower Third Definition
What is a lower third?
A lower third is a combination of text and graphical elements placed in the lower area of the television screen to give the audience more information. It doesn’t necessarily have to occupy the “lower third” of the screen, but that’s where it gets its name. They might seem trivial, but their necessity is clear when they’re used poorly or missing altogether which can confuse the audience.
When might be a good time to use lower thirds? If you’re filming a documentary, or any other interview-type program, keeping track of all of the subjects can get confusing without lower thirds.
If the show, company, or film has a certain tone or aesthetic, it’s good to keep the lower third design “on brand.” All of the elements of the lower third should work together to add to the visuals, not distract from them.
ELEMENTS OF A LOWER THIRD:
Color
Typography
Animation Style
Size and Position
Shapes and Logos
Setting things up
Before having an logo its better to have a few seconds of the main subject visible as to direct the viewer to all the content of the screen and after than we can introduce the company logo and typographic in a motion graphics kind of animation to make the appeal for the broadcasting network.
Title safe and Action Safe
Title safe and action safe are used to ensure that text and important visual elements in a video are clearly visible and not cut off when displayed on different screens.
Title safe refers to an area within the video frame where text or important subtitles should be placed to ensure they are fully visible on all screens, even if the edges of the video are cropped.
Action safe is a slightly larger area within the frame where the most essential visual elements should be placed, such as characters or important objects, to prevent them from being cut off on some screens.
By using title safe and action safe guidelines, video editors and designers can ensure that their content is displayed accurately and effectively on various devices and platforms.
Grid
The grid node can be used as a stensil to align the graphics on the screen and also make it look more appealing in proportions since humans can easily view imperfections.
Creating the Graphic elements
Element 1
We can use a constant and make a roto like a rectangle and transform and animate across the screen.
Element 2
For the second element we create a gradient which appears in a wipe effect in the screen, we can do this with a ramp node and creating a roto which animates over time.
We can add additional elements like transformation animation and we can make use of the curve editor to get ease in or ease out effect, which makes the whole graphic interesting.
Element 3
Here we are going to have a small box which is going to contain the logo of the broadcasting network.
first we take a constant and apply ramp which has alpha and we use the noise along with the distort node in tandum with the alpha from the gradient to get the texture and finally merge everything together.
Element 4
We do the same kind of effects for the other elements as well
Element 5, 6 and 7
Special Effects
We can create a cool special effects which looks like a box blur and slide the animation across the time to give a revealing effect to the graphic. we can use a combination of blur, grade and edge detect nodes to get this effect.
Typographics
The text part is as important as the graphics even more so, to make the text more appealing we can animate the wipe for revealing similar to the other elements of the scene, can also add drop shadow to make it more pop out.
NoOp Node
This is a useful node which does nothing, and we can use this as custom master controls which affects all the other nodes through connected link, for example we can control multiple dissolve with multiple values in the same node without the hassle to navigate through the node network.