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What up you guys! It’s Yannick here for cinecom.net
and welcome to another Copy Cat Friday!
In this series we recreate visual effects from famous movies and music videos.
And this week we are recreating an effect from the new music video
from A$AP Rocky: ‘The Kids Turned Out Fine’.
[Cinecom's intro music]
No, Jordy isn't sick or away, he is right here keeping an eye on me.
I think he is afraid that I will break the RED camera if he goes away again.
But we decided it's time again for me to practice my presentation skills.
That's why I'll be your host today, and boy, we are going on a journey today!
Like, literally!
For this effect you need a lot of locations.
As you all saw in the beginning of the video,
we are going to recreate this endless scene transition effect from A$AP Rocky.
You can see in his clip
that the different scenes blend in each other with some careful masking.
And this is what we are going to show you today.
With two different types of camera movements.
Now, let's start with the first movement and the location.
[Upbeat pop music]
Okay, this will do for our first location.
But before we start with the movement,
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Now it's time to pay attention to your surroundings.
What you are going to need are foreground elements.
These are necessary for the effect,
otherwise you don't have anything to mask around in Post Production.
So go on a hunt for those foreground elements.
You don't always have to have one in the beginning and one in the back.
The clips are going to overlap
so you can use a foreground element from the previous or next clip.
Just make sure you have at least one foreground element,
then you will be save.
Now for the camera movement, which is going to be handheld or with a gimbal.
In the A$AP Rocky clip you can see the camera really moves in the scene,
going closer and further to the subjects.
And this is what you also want to do, really move through the scene.
But before you can do this you need to determine the direction for the transition.
This can be from left to right or what ever side you like.
Just remember to maintain the direction throughout the entire effect.
You can try to change the direction mid scene, but I don't recommend it.
So now that we know we are moving from left to the right,
you can do your other movements.
You don't always need to go in a straight line,
do something creative, but maintain your direction.
Also remember to provide some bleed in the beginning of your clip
and in the end.
Otherwise you can't overlap it with the other shots.
But most important,
let your foreground element move completely through the screen
from one side to the other.
Okay, now that we have the movement,
I want to say one last thing before we go to the next location.
In the A$AP Rocky music video, all the actors stand still.
Well, this isn't necessary, but it can give an extra touch to your effect.
So you can choose yourself if you want to do that.
Now, let's go to the other locations and film the rest we need for our effect.
[Music]
Okay, now that we have all our shots, let's jump into Premiere Pro.
Load in all your clips in the Project and create a montage of the shots.
Now your clips are already in the correct order you want.
The next thing you need to do now is the masking part.
You start with your begin clip
and look for the foreground element we can use to mask out.
We have one in the end of our begin clip, so place that clip one track higher.
Next, look for the point where your foreground element
is completely in the shot.
Go to the Effects Control panel
and under Opacity you can find the Pen tool for creating custom masks.
Now create a detailed mask around the right side of it.
On this side your next shot will be introduced and visible.
Go back to the Effects Control panel and enable the animation for the Mask Path.
Now you are probably thinking, "why didn't you start the mask animation
from the point the foreground element comes in?"
Well, I find this easier because now you know exactly
how many masking points you are going to need to mask out the element.
The only thing you now have to do is animate the mask while going back in time
until the foreground element is off screen on the right side.
Now go back to the point where we started the animation earlier on
and now you can animate the mask while going further in time.
Try to do this as precise as possible, because any shift or small error
will probably be visible due to the underlaying layer.
For the next step it's time to align the underlaying clip.
Let this one start at the exact same time as your mask animation starts.
If the speed of the two clips don't match,
you can also speed ramp one to match the other.
For and in-depth tutorial about speed ramping,
check out the link in the description below.
And that is really all there is to it.
Just mask out your foreground element
and align everything to get these smooth transitions.
[Music]
In the A$AP Rocky music video they also added these glowing scribble effects.
Well, we could explain it, but we already did that in an After Effects tutorial
completely dedicated to this effect and Kendrick Lamar.
So if you want to learn about that, go in the description below
to find a link about that.
-So, as you can see, the effect is super simple to recreate
without having much equipment.
Now, if you do like to take it to that next level
you can work with motion controlled equipment.
This right here is a slider from Syrp, which is a well known brand in the industry
we’re having these motion controlled stuff.
And we’re actually looking here at three types of products,
we’ve got the slider, that you can purchase separately,
but you can also purchase the tracking head right here
and on top of that, also the pan & tilt head.
You can also purchase the pan & tilt head separately if you like so,
and that way you can mount it to a tripod and only do pan & tilt movements.
This thing right here connects to your phone,
which allows you to program any kind of movement like Yannick is doing right now,
on the slider.
And that is pretty cool, because this means that we can shoot something right here
then take all of this stuff with us to a second location
and do the exact same movement again.
And that is going to be really interesting, as the two shots
will perfectly match together,
and we’re going to see it later in this video also
how we can use this to our benefit.
The Syrp slider obviously is very cool, but if you don’t have such a slider
you can also use a gimbal.
Obviously this doesn’t allow you to slide,
but you can of course pan and tilt at one exact movement.
You can use the joystick of your gimbal to do that movement,
but you can also use the app, many gimbals these days come with an app,
which allows you to control like that too.
We currently have this gimbal mounted to a tripod
which allows us to set it up every way that we want to.
Now, like before, take your shot motion-controlled with the gimbal
as it’s doing this pan movement and just take it up, move it to a different location
and make that exact same shot again.
Also, giving you a very smooth transition between the two.
Now you can do exactly the same thing as with your handheld movements.
Shoot your subjects, use foreground elements,
but this time let your camera rotate on a tripod,
doing the same arc movement at the same speed over and over again.
This will ensure a perfect smooth transition.
[Music]
Now, in post production it's also exactly the same as with the first effect.
But now that the transition from one scene to the other is so smooth,
we can do something special.
First you want to make a shot where a large portion of the end of the clip
is just a wall or an even surface.
Then you want to make a shot where you open a door.
Make sure the door is situated on the left of the room
and opens from the left to the right, so that it flows with the transitions.
Now in Premiere Pro place the shot with the wall in the end on track 1
and the shot with the door on track number 2.
Let the door shot start whenever you seem it fits.
Select the door shot and go to the Effects Control panel and take the Pen tool.
Now create a mask in the door opening,
so that the only thing you see is within the door frame.
Again go to the Effects Control panel and enable the animation for the Mask Path.
Go back in time and animate the mask till the door closes
and nothing is visible anymore from that clip.
Then go back further in time and animate the mask opening togheter with the door.
Now when the door is completely open,
you can let the right side of the mask go off screen on the right.
Just keep animating the left side
so that if follows the door frame off the screen on the left.
When you have done this all correctly, you'll get this very cool effect.
That was it for today guys.
Thank you so much for watching, I hope I explained everything clear enough.
Thank you Storyblocks for the support
and like always,
Stay Creative.