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[Cinecom's intro music]
Hey folks, it's Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Creative Tuesday!
Every week we think outside of the box to share some exciting new filmmaking tips.
And today we're looking at three famous Hollywood effects that are super easy to recreate
inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
First off we're going to take a look at Wonder Woman
where she's dodging the bullets being fired by the enemy soldiers.
All the sparks from the bullets hitting her shield is quite easy to make.
You film in a dark space and take some shots of a lighter.
You don't wanna film the flame, but the sparks that it produces.
Another option is where you take some shots of a grinding wheel.
And this might give you better results. And if you are a minor,
then please ask your parents to help you out when using a grinding wheel.
Another option is to work with pre-made effects.
And Rocketstock has a brand new pack called Collider
which has over 150 particle effects, including sparks.
And then of course film yourself holding a shield and pretend to be at war.
In Premiere Pro you put the layer of yourself on the bottom
and on top of that goes the spark.
With the layer selected, head over to the Opacity property
and click on the Pen tool to draw a mask around the spark.
Then back to the Opacity property, change the blending mode to Linear Dodge.
And this should remove the black.
If it didn't, you can always use Lumetri to make the shadows deeper and the highlights brighter.
And now just reposition and scale the sparks
to where you have the bullets have their impact.
You might wanna adjust your mask so that it takes up the shape of the shield.
Now, duplicate the spark or take some variations of it as much as you want
and arrange them over your timeline
so that it seems like you're being hit by a thousand bullets.
I also used some of the longer sparks that came from the grinding wheel
as the bullets themselves.
The Collider pack from Rocketstock also has these bullet stripes
which you can solo out with a mask.
Definitely make sure to check it out, there's a bunch of more things in there
from dust particles, powder explosions, etcetera.
You can click the first link in the description below to learn more.
Or if you scroll a little bit further down the description, you can also find a download link
with two free spark effects from the pack
so that you can try them out yourself.
[Heavy gunfire and shooting sounds]
Now let’s continue to Star Wars and create our own light saber.
The only thing you'll need is a shot of yourself swinging a stick,
or a Samurai sword, like Yannick did.
In Adobe Premiere Pro I'm going to add a black video on top of my shot.
On this black video I'll add the Lightning effect
and change all of the animation values to 0.
That is everything between the segments to stability.
Then change the width to the thickness that you want and of course select your favorite color.
Finally from the the opacity property, change the blending mode to Screen.
Now you wanna select the lightning effect, and you'll see you have two points
and you wanna reposition them to cover the stick that you're holding,
or... Samurai sword.
Anyways, then enable the animation for both the start and the end point.
It's a little time consuming now as you need to adjust the point's position
per frame that you go forward.
But the end result is pretty cool.
As a final touch, you could also add the Directional Blur effect to the black solid.
From here you can animate a blur direction and length
to recreate the motion blur on the lighting effect.
This is also the reason why I've created the light saber on a black solid.
[Light saber sound]
Moving on to the next Hollywood effect
and we're staying with the super heroes and recreate a Superman lift off!
Essentially it's not so hard, you film yourself jumping in the air,
move away and take an empty shot.
In Premiere Pro that empty shot goes on the bottom, your jump shot goes on top.
At the point that you're jumping, you add a cut,
then right-click on the right part and choose Frame Hold.
Then head over to the Opacity property, take the Pen tool
and draw a mask around yourself.
Then right-click on that clip again and choose Nest from the menu.
On the nested sequence you apply the Transform effect
and animate the position so that you move outside of the frame.
Disable to use Composition's Shutter Angle
and set one of your own to get a natural motion blur.
And that already gives you a lift off effect.
But there's an important asset missing,
which is the ground that has to explode a little bit from the lift-off.
That's something iconic from the 'Man of Steel' film.
So, we came up with the following.
So, we just had an ingenious idea by putting a ball into the ground
and we will pump air into that ball until it explodes
and that way we kinda have the impact of Superman lifting off,
but unfortunately we broke the ball by putting the pin into it.
So... we can't do that anymore.
Take #2: Yannick still had one of these balls in his car,
so let's try and explode this one with a manual pump.
[Music]
So, that also didn't work.
We can't get the ball to explode.
So we're gonna go to plan B and that is just throwing sand in the air
but then behind the hill here.
So let's try that.
[Music]
Everyone is probably thinking: why don't you just use stock footage, Jordy?
Yeah, it was a lot easier! Ha, ha.
Using the shot where we threw sand in the air as the empty shot made it look better,
but I still believe that with some kind of explosion in the ground
we would have had a more realistic impact.
Unfortunately, sticking a fire bomb in a nature preserved park
is not the greatest idea.
As a final touch you can nest everything together, apply the Transform effect to it
and animate the rotation, scale and position to add a little shake to the shot.
[Nature outdoor sounds]
[Lift off explosion sound]
And that was it again!
Thank you guys so much for watching, thank you Rocketstock for the support
and if you would like to see some more behind the scenes
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And like always:
stay creative!
-So, Yesterday Lorenzo here gave us an assignment
where we have to make a horror film with sausages.
-That's right.
I made Jordy and Yannick battle against each other with sausages.
So if you wanna see that, go to the second channel
cinecom raw.
-Battle against each other with sausages,
that really sounds wrong!