So, today I've been sick.
But the show must go on. Copy Cat Friday must go on,
because we've been working on something pretty amazing!
[Cinecom's Intro music]
It's Jordy here for cinecom.net and let's start with a big thank you...
...to Yannick and Lorenzo who have been shooting and editing this entire project.
I'm only doing this part right here, because I've been pretty darn sick.
Today we'll be recreating the trailer of Atlanta season 2.
Honestly I haven't seen the series yet, but from what I've read online...
...I should start watching this immediately.
In the trailer you see these amazing transitions...
...where the camera rolls into and back out of the ground.
That alone is not so hard, we actually did a video about that a while back.
But what makes this so interesting is that we also have a person...
...rolling with the camera.
This makes it a lot more complex and...
...we've been looking for the easiest way to recreate this.
-Lorenzo...
...What's that groovy music?
-Oh yeah! Ooh, let's dance!
-On the show they did the effect with a green-screen.
So, that's why we are gonna use a green-screen.
We already built one,
and the important thing with a green-screen is that you have two lighting zones.
One for your green-screen, as you can see,
and one lighting zone for your subject.
And that's because we don't wanna cast shadows on the green-screen.
But the lighting for your subject is also really important,
because you gotta match it with your background.
The background is then shot elsewhere.
Yannick and Lorenzo just drove around looking for interesting spots.
It would be better if the sun would shine, but...
...the weather was unfortunately pretty bad.
Now, you wanna find a way to rotate your camera here.
We first tried with with a monopod, but that didn't came out right.
The camera was shaking too much,
we needed two legs to rotate the camera on.
So we used our MeVideo tripod,
which allowes us to detach one leg.
But you can also find other ways to only extend...
...two of the three legs of any tripod.
This was a lot better and allowed us to move the camera in a perfect arch.
Every shot had to be empty and you can already shoot it out of focus,
because we'll have the subject stand closer to the lens.
Now if you forgot about this, then no worries,
you can always add some blurriness in post-production.
What we did do was also make a shot of our subject standing in that same frame.
We'll not use this, but it's a good reference to see...
...how the lighting should be recreated in the studio.
-So, we did our location shots.
Let's go back to the studio!
Your talent can sit on his knees, as we'll be making a medium shot.
And that will make it easier for Lorenzo to lay down, come up and fall back down.
The lighting does have to change here,
so what Yannick did was holding an extended light above Lorenzo.
As Lorenzo makes his movement, Yannick would walk with the light over him.
So instead of moving the camera, we moved the light,
giving the same impression.
Most of the shots where pretty flat because of the bad weather,
so for those clips we added a soft dome to our Stella light.
The night background had a street light on top.
So there we could attach a Fresnel mount to the picture...
...and added an orange filter to it to mimic that street light.
-Without Jordy here I'm feeling quite blues.
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The post-production process is fairly simple.
You can already put your background on the bottom...
...and the green-screen shot on top of that.
First you wanna mask out your subject...
...and remove the green using the Ultra Key effect.
Now you can try to match the movement of your subject to the background.
And you might wanna enable Time remapping for that clip...
...to speed up the first and last parts.
This could take some time to re-adjust until you got it right.
When your subject lays close to the ground there should be a shadow.
One way to create that is by adding a new Black Color Matte...
...underneath your subject clip.
Draw a mask in the shape of a person around it and feather it a bunch.
You also wanna lower the opacity so that the shadow is subtle.
Next I would move the anchor point to the bottom,
and this will make sure that the rotation of that clip goes around that axis.
Animate the rotation so that the shadow stays on the same position.
Make sure you add a cross dissolve on the end of the shadow clip.
Then do the same thing for when your subject in landing,
and here you wanna fade the shadow clip in.
Finally you can also animate the exposure of your subject through the Lumetri effect.
When your subject is closer to the ground,
he can be a little darker than when he's standing up.
[Funky music]
Now I'm gonna jump back in bed to heal up for next Tuesday.
Thank you guys so much for watching,
thank you Premiumbeat for the support,
and to Yannick and Lorenzo:
You guys did a pretty darn creative good job!
-Jordy is sick and I'm the new boss now.
Let's make some new rules.
Lorenzo! Start working!
Faster!
Move the elevating truck!
Work!
Work faster!
You're fired, Lorenzo!
-I don't even work here!
Go home!