Construction Process

Now that I have all my footage taken, I could finally proceed with constructing my music video. This was going to be done using Sony Vegas Pro 9. This software is new to me but I opted to choose this due to the capibillity and features included. Also I am going to use Adobe After effects CS4 for all of my special effectsin the music video.

24 Effect

 Firstly I collected all my different footage I was going to incorporate. I placed them on the timeline at designated points. I keyframed the scale points of the video so it "shrunk" when played. For the other video footage I changed the dimensions so it gave a splitscreen effect.

Music Video Intro

This effect was properly the trickiest and the most time consuming. I had to blend in original Twilight Zone footage with mine. My idea was that I would play the spinning door up untill the point where it opens, and instead of the Twilight Zone, it would instead be the picture of the 'possesed' person.

first I had to stop the footage up to where the doop opens slightly. I masked out the door and put it was the top layer. So my layers were the door hinge and everything behind it, followed by my footage, then the door on top. This would give the look of the picture actually being behind the door. To make this look better, I feathered my video so iit blured and looked more natural. Finally I used some colour effects so when the door is opening, the picture is greyscale, however this slowly changes to colour.

Spinning Door

Door Opening

TV Transition

For this effect, I used the static transition footage I had and blended that in with my footage. To do this I had to make my footage move up as the black line in the static does, giving the impression of the TV getting signal again.

TV Static

TV Zoomed In

Mirror Effect

This effect was suprisingly simple to do. It was just a matter of filming too different videos in exactly the same position. Then I masked out around my rapper standing in the mirror. This meant that when he bent down to wash his face, he was still standing still in the reflection.