[Airplane exterior, wind]
[Free fall screaming]
[Cinecom’s intro music]
Hey guys, it’s Jordy here for Cinecom and... yeah, we did it!
Last night we hit 1,000,000 subscribers on this channel.
Wow!
It was actually going way faster than I thought.
I actually missed it that the counter was going over a million, I was sleeping
when that happened, unfortunately.
Actually, everything has been going a lot faster than we initially thought,
so, we don’t really have a celebration video ready yet.
That’ll be for somewhere next week,
so, let’s just pretend that we did not reach the million yet, okay?
So, in the meantime, welcome to Copy Cat Friday!
In this weekly series we recreate visual effects from music videos and films.
Today we are having a look at ‘Yosemite’ from Travis Scott,
where you can see a young boy fall through the sky,
which is exactly what we’re going to recreate today!
But before we jump into the studio,
I'd first like to make a quick shoutout to Storyblocks, our channel sponsor.
Storyblocks is a huge library filled with stock clips, templates,
video effects and a ton more.
With a single price per year, you can download unlimited video assets!
For more information, make sure to click the first link in the description below!
Welcome to the studio, guys!
Before we can start falling through the sky,
we first have to set up some lights, a green screen and some other stuff
to make that happen.
So, let's do that!
this right here is my skateboard rail,
we are gonna use it to just lay on and that way we are a little bit lifted from the ground
and of course, you can also use anything else,
you can lay a plank, or anything where you can just lay on top of.
And now we are going to set up a green-screen around this thing.
-Hey, Jordy, do board-slides!
-Challenge accepted!
Where is my board?
This is pretty high, though.
Usually, it's a lot lower when I skateboard onto it,
so, let's try!
[Music]
-We just did a few tests in this setup but it didn't work out that well,
if you lay on a plank.
So, we're gonna do it a little bit different now
and try to throw some cords over some pillars here in the studio
and really try to hang on cords.
[Music]
Yeah, that whole rope idea also didn’t work out the way we want it to.
But we don't give up at Cinecom!
We keep searching for the easiest possible way to recreate effects!
So, that's why we drove over to a wind tunnel and set up a green-screen in there!
No, I'm just joking!
But it's actually not a bad idea.
Anyways, eventually we just did it by just standing in front of a green screen
and it did work out better.
But you can see that the physics here aren't that well.
That’s because I'm standing on the floor, my feet and my arms have to be free.
So, after 3 failed attempts, Yannick came with a brilliant plan!
We are going to place the green-screen on the floor and put two barstools onto it.
Now, you can also take a box or anything else.
Important though, is that the seats are going to be green,
so we put another green screen over it.
And again, guys, don't be overwhelmed by all the gear that we use,
a simple green t-shirt can also work perfectly to cover up that seat.
I’m gonna lay sideways onto it,
which makes possible to move my feet and arms around freely.
Now, the camera does have to be mounted above me.
We're using a heavy-duty stand to mount a DSLR onto it.
If you don't have that, then you can also be creative with a ladder
or a plank that you mount over the stools.
Now, as for the pose that you should take,
pay attention that you push your chest a little bit forward,
bend your knees and pull your arms back.
What also helps is to just look up videos about people sky diving
and see which pose that they take.
And of course to sell the effect even better that you are falling through the sky,
let someone else create wind.
You can wave with an object or use a leaf-blower.
That's all we need, now let’s jump into Premiere Pro!
We're gonna start off with the clouds.
The easiest way to create this is to start with a stock clip.
If it's for personal use, you can search Youtube or the web,
for commercial projects I can highly recommend to check out Storyblocks.
In their library we found various clips of clouds that we could download.
One of these clouds goes into your timeline and will function as the background.
Select it, head over to the Effects Controls and increase the scale to around 120.
And then enable the animation for the position.
Move the clip down, got forward in time and move the clip all the way up.
We've now added a little bit of motion into the background,
so that it seems like the camera is following the person falling.
But to give the impression that you are actually falling fast,
we're going to let some clouds move in front of the camera super fast.
You can take the same clouds clip, or find a different one
to get some more different shapes in there.
Place it into your timeline, select it and head over to the Effects Controls.
From the Opacity property, click on the Pen tool
and draw a rough mask around a cloud.
When you're done, make sure to increase the Feather a bunch.
Next up, jump into the Opacity and decrease it to around 70%.
When you're done with that, head over to the Position property
and animate the cloud so that it starts from the bottom out of the screen,
up to above the screen.
You can make this animation go pretty fast
as it will be a cloud moving close in front of the camera.
Finally, we’re missing some motion blur to make it more realistic,
so the next thing we'll do is head over to the Effects Library
and search for the Directional Blur, apply that to the cloud.
From the Effects properties, change the blur length to around 80 or 90.
The reason we're not using the Transform effect to create the motion blur
is because it doesn't go together when working with masks.
And Premiere even tends to do weird stuff if you nest the clip.
So this is the easiest and safest way to get motion blur in there.
Your first cloud is done and we're gonna use this as template for the other clouds.
Hold down your Alt key on the keyboard
and drag that cloud clip to a different spot in the timeline.
This will duplicate the cloud clip including all of its effects and animations.
You now wanna go ahead and change the shape of the mask.
You can also take a whole new clip of clouds if you like.
Clouds closer to the camera can be scaled up.
Later, when you're going to duplicate more of these clouds
which you wanna have in the back, they can be scaled down.
Furthermore, you can change the opacity of the clouds again,
change the speed of the animation, etcetera.
You can try anything to make it appear more random.
So, then just go a head and keep duplicating your clouds.
Change the mask, the animation, the scaling and the opacity.
Clouds in the back, which are scaled down,
usually have a slower position animation than clouds up front,
which are close to the camera.
You can also stack some clouds on each other,
again to get more dynamic in there.
Important though, is while you're making your cloud animation
is that you put the slower animated clouds on the bottom in your timeline
and the faster animated clouds on top.
In between leave a track open for yourself.
Take that clip and place it into the timeline.
With it selected, head over to the Opacity property
take the Pen tool and draw a quick mask around yourself,
so that you're only left with the green screen.
Next up, search for the Ultra Key effect in the Library,
and apply that to the clip.
With the color picker we can select the green and remove it.
Now, if you're having trouble though pulling off that green key,
then it's not such a big problem,
as we’re going to cover up those mistakes in a minute.
Finally, rotate and scale yourself to fit within that scene.
Important is that we're going to make the falling appear natural
and cover up any mistakes.
First of all, I'm going to select the falling clip.
And head over to the Position property.
Simply animate that clip going up and down gently.
You don't need many keyframes here, just let it flow nicely.
We're now going to do the final touch,
which is creating an adjustment layer from the Project Window
and drag that to the top of the entire edit.
On this adjustment layer I'm going to apply one of our Earthquake presets.
You can download these completely for free.
You can find a link to them in the description below.
I'm gonna pick the Gentle Shake.
This is a simple animation with the Transform effect
where I have animated the position rapidly around.
With the Transform effect, we can automatically generate motion blur
with this option right here.
Within this preset, it was set to 180°, which is actually a normal motion blur.
But for this project specifically, it’s a little too much.
So we're going to change that to 60°.
And this way we have some motion blur in there,
which also covers up the mistakes if your green key didn't worked out so great.
And that's it, now just lean back and watch yourself fall from the sky!
[Music]
That was it again, thank you so much for watching,
thank you for subscribing.
I mean, a million subscribers that is just crazy…
I mean, we don’t have a million yet, you know…
Let’s pretend we don’t have that yet.
We’re gonna make a video about that next week somewhere.
Anyways, thank you for watching, all of that good stuff,
thank you Storyblocks for the support, like always.
But most importantly:
Stay Creative!
-Lorenzo and Yannick aren’t at work yet,
so, I’m gonna set up some fire works as they come in.
This right here is a one-way vision window
so that means I can see them but they can't see me.
[exploding fireworks]
Damn it!