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Hey folks, my name is Jordy for cinecom.net and you're watching Copy Cat Friday.
Now, in this series we recreate an effect from famous films or music videos,
however today we're not having a look at one specific music video.
And that is because there’s this new trend going on,
which we can see in many music clips.
Drake is doing it, Asap Rocky, Beyonce and even Jake Paul.
They're all bringing us back to the 90s, baby!
So, let's put on your oversized t-shirts!
The more colors you wear, the cooler you are.
I mean look at Drake, he's even killing it!
Let's see how we can recreate a nostalgic 90s video look!
[pop rap music]
[Cinecom’s intro music]
Back in the 90s, reality TV was very popular.
It was suddenly okay for home video to appear on TV,
even though it was usually shot by professionals.
Home video doesn’t mean that you can just film like a drunk,
it's still controlled, but it has a very distinct look.
First of all, the camera back in the day had small sensors.
So that means a larger depth of field, so you wanna close down your aperture.
If you're shooting outside, you might not even need an ND filter.
And then comes the camera movement, which is also referred to as the MTV look.
Basically everything is more exaggerated.
Very low camera angles, very high camera angles,
but also things like crooked camera angles.
You could even slant your camera lens during a shot.
And finally is the B-Roll.
Unlike all of those smooth transitions that we see lately,
b-roll in the 90s was more… ugly.
You could literally give a camera to your grandmother
and ask her to shoot all the b-roll.
Because she would probably film her grand kids and all the family.
People and emotions, that's what you wanna capture for your b-roll.
B-roll can be shot on a normal lens, but if you're going to sing on camera,
you wanna put on that super wide angle lens.
If you don't have a wide angle lens,
there's a way to mimic that a little bit inside Premiere.
So, let's head back to the office and let’s see how we can do that.
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Welcome to the editing room, Yannick right now is firing up Premiere.
Yeah, good job Yannick.
Place your desired clip into the timeline.
Then head over to the Effects Library and search for the lens distortion effect.
Drag that to your clip, then go to the Effects Controls,
from where you want to change the properties of this effect.
It's pretty straightforward, simply increase the curvature a little bit.
If you like to see more curved lines, which are typical for wide angle or fisheye lenses
then you can play around with the horizontal de-centering.
Since we're seeing these wide borders now,
go into your Motion Properties and increase the scale,
and adjust with the position if needed.
And that's how we can fake a wide angle lens inside Premiere.
Yannick, you got it all?
He just fired up premiere!
All right, we’ll capture this later.
Let's get back into the car and go back to the location.
[Pop rap music]
You're doing great, you've become a true 90s cameraman!
But since you're probably all shooting this on a modern camera,
there're a bunch of effects that we need to add to this look.
So, I'm gonna make you a true 90s video editor right now!
So, let’s go back to the office!
[Music]
You’re doing great, Yannick.
So are you, Lorenzo.
So, in our timeline we've already got our clip in there.
From the Project Panel I can now create a new adjustment layer.
Drag that on top of your clip.
We’re going to use this adjustment layer to apply all the effects on
and that way we can still swap or change the clips underneath quite easy.
On this adjustment layer we're going to start off with a color correction.
I’m gonna use Lumetri for that.
Basically, what you wanna do is mess up your whites, which is typical.
Increase your contrast a bunch.
After that, pump up the highlights.
It's okay if the sky or other hot spots get overexposed.
Then scroll down and expand the color wheels.
From here you wanna lower the exposure of the highlights.
And what you're essentially doing now is making the whites gray, which is perfect.
Good job, you've messed up the highlights.
Next up, we’re jumping into the Creative Tab.
From here we're going to apply a built-in look.
From your drop-down menu locate the Kodak 2395 look.
Depending on your shots you can increase the intensity of the look.
Next, jump into the Faded Film control
and increase that a bunch to wash out the shadows.
Since you've probably shot this in HD or even 4K,
the image looks too sharp.
So, from the sharpness control decrease the value to around -10
to get a little bit of softness in there.
For the last step we're going to jump back into the color wheels.
And from here we're going to add a little bit of orange into the mid-tones
making the shot appear warmer.
And that’s it for the look!
We're now going to apply several film effects to the clip.
From your Effects Library search for the Noise effect.
Apply that to the adjustment layer as well.
We're going to use this to introduce a little bit of film grain.
Set it to around 10%.
And then there’s one more thing that we want to do,
and that is adding some dust particles.
To do that first create a new black solid from your Project Panel
and drag that to the top in your timeline.
Then from your Effects Library, search for the Fractal Noise and apply that to the black solid.
Change the fractal type to strings,
then increase the contrast a lot and decrease the brightness.
You want to have small dots of dust.
Once you've got it, enable the animation for the random seed.
Move forward in time and change the value.
And this will animate the particles making them dance around.
Finally, go into the Opacity property and change the blending mode to Screen.
And that's how we can create that old film look,
but there's a bunch of more exciting things that we could do.
So, let's jump back into the car and drive back to that bridge!
Come on, Yannick!
[Pop rap music]
-Wait a second!
We don't have to be here, Yannick, we need to be in the studio!
-Damn it Jordy!
I’m getting tired of this!
-Okay, back in the car!
[Pop rap music]
Welcome in the studio guys!
you want to film in a dark environment,
so we're gonna shut off the lights in just a moment.
Grab a small light, Yannick has one right here,
is the Aputure Amaran, you can also just use a flashlight.
Then take off the lens, but make sure that your lens cap is still on to it.
Just hold your lens against your body, like this,
and then just kind of swipe that light into it,
So, while your're doing that you can kind of see these very quick flashes going on,
and that is exactly what you need.
Put that lens back on, because we've got our film burns!
Let's go back to the location!
-Jordy, no! what are we doing next?
-Oh, yeah we're going to see how we can make this as well inside Premiere Pro.
So, let's go upstairs.
Let’s first see how we can use that light leak we've just filmed in the studio.
Drag a small clip of such a film burn to your timeline.
And under the opacity change the blending mode to linear dodge, add.
Now let's see how we can make also such a film burn, or light leak,
completely digital.
Drag a black video to the top of your edit.
On here, apply the 4-color gradient effect.
You want to change the colors of each point to a vivid orange red and purple.
Then go into the opacity property and change the blending mode to linear dodge, add.
What you now wanna do is click on the Pen tool under opacity.
And draw a random shape.
When you're done increase the feather a bunch.
Then enable Animation for the mask path
and for each frame you want to change the position of the mask and the shape.
Make it seem like a quick flash coming in from the side.
Of course, you only want this to happen for a short time.
So, make sure to only animate that mask for a few frames.
You can then go ahead and hold down your Alt key
and drag that black solid to another spot to make a duplication of it.
This way the film burn effect will appear multiple times.
And that brings us to the last thing, which is a nice framing around the clip,
such as we can see here in the music videos as well.
Many of them actually have the exact same framing.
First of all, let’s cut off a part of that 16:9 wide screen.
Since it's a scan from a filmstrip we're gonna do that by creating a mask.
First, add a black solid on the top of your entire edit.
On here draw a rough square mask, it doesn't have to be so straight.
Then from the mask properties click on Invert.
Finally it's gonna be that clip on the side.
For that, you wanna drag a new black solid to the top of your edit.
With it selected head over to your Effects Controls,
from which you want to click on the rectangle mask tool under the opacity.
Move that mask up to the side
and click around the corners to add some extra points.
Then hold down your Control key and click to remove the actual corners.
We can now pull on the levers by holding down the Alt key
to make those corners round.
Finally, go into the Mask Properties and set the feather to 0.
And then there’s one last thing to do,
I’m going to create an orange color solid from my Project Panel,
and drag that underneath the black solid that we've just created.
Select the black solid, go into the Effects Controls
select the mask for the clip and hit Ctrl or Command C to copy that mask.
Then select your orange solid, go into the Effects Controls,
select the opacity property and hit Ctrl or Command V to paste that mask in there.
And this time we're going to feather that mask a little bit
and change the blending mode to linear dodge, add.
-You got it all, Yannick?
-No!
Awesome!
Now, let’s go back into the car!
-What?
Damn it, Jordy!
And that's how you can make your own 90s video style.
Thank you so much for watching, thank you Storyblocks for the support!
Definitely make sure to check out their library.
But, most importantly…
Stay Creative!
An espresso, what else…
Well, you could drink tea, or Coca-Cola, or Fanta,
or water, water’s actually the best thing.
Look, cute kittens in the background, meow!