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-Jordy's always making a mess,
and who has to clean it?
Me, always the same.
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-Yannick! Is that you?
-Ha-ha!
-Damn you, Jordy! Damn you!
-Ha, ha, ha!
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Hey folks, it's Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Copy Cat Friday.
A weekly series where we recreate an effect or film technique.
And today is a little bit different though, as we're having a look at the game Portal.
Not really a big trend anymore, but it's still awesome to create that portal effect!
And I wanna thank the folks over at Twitter for this idea.
Someone actually suggested the portal effects from Eminem's clip
and that brought us to jumping through a portal idea.
-So, we just got back from the store, guys, and got ourselves some green paper!
And we're going to use this right here as the portal,
so what we have to do right now is cut out the shape of a portal.
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-Hey Yannick! Catch!
-I got the green screen! -Okay.
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Your portal doesn't have to be super precise,
just as long as you have somehow an ellipse shape laying here.
So, once you get that we can now look at the camera work.
So, we have just built a little set right here, guys,
with these pallets we have some more texture in the background
and also to give a story to Yannick finding a portal
underneath one of these pallets, and...
...we actually introduce that portal by having some lights underneath
these pallets and we're are actually using the Specular light for that.
We've wrapped some filters around it so that we have a different color.
And the great thing about this light is that you can shape them any way you want,
that way we can kind of wrap them underneath these pallets.
And they also have these extension cables,
so over there I've got a controller, like this one right here,
which has a dimmer knob on it, and that way I can kind of control the lights,
have it flicker a little bit on Yannick's face.
So, once Yannick finds out about the portal, we're going to cut to a different angle
and in that shot we wanna have this green paper laying here on the floor,
like that. Now, very important is that you're going to light this green paper
with a daylight-balanced light as well,
because if you're going to mix different colors in here, like blue or...
...tungsten lighting into this green,
is going to be really hard to key that out in post-production.
The only thing we needed was Yannick jumping into the portal and an empty shot,
both filmed form the same tripod.
After that we moved to the office upstairs,
where the second portal sits on the ceiling.
[Music]
-Damn you, Jordy!
Here your shots can be exactly the same.
You have your actor fall from a small height and an empty shot.
Next up we filmed the shots that you would see through those portals.
For this we clamped a camera to the ceiling
and somehow tried to match the same angle.
You wanna do that for both of the shots.
It's important that these shots are filmed static and not handheld.
So, we got three shots for every scene, let's bring them into Premiere Pro,
But before we do so, I'd like to thank Rocketstock for their support today.
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which is a collection of more than 150 particle effects in different styles,
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The clip of your actor jumping into the portal
goes on the second track in your timeline.
You can already apply an Ultra Key effect to it to remove the green.
Then the clip of the other room that was filmed form the ceiling
goes on track number 1, which will reveal itself through that hole.
You probably wanna reposition and scale that layer to match it.
Now we'll create that portal effect,
but, to make it easier for you guys, we've already done it for you,
There's a direct download link to it in the description below.
And that will give you a simple clip of a portal effect.
Drag that clip on top of your edit,
with that selected head over to the opacity blend modes and choose Screen.
Then you wanna position that portal to make it fit with your hole.
You can use the Basic 3D effect together with the normal position,
scale and rotation properties to do that.
Next up you wanna search for a point where your actor floats in the air.
Here you wanna add a cut.
Right-click on the right part and choose Frame Hold.
On this clip you wanna mask out the entire person, but...
...do this precisely.
This clip then goes to track 4,
so that we can put the empty shot of the scene underneath.
On this empty shot you also wanna apply the Ultra Key effect to remove the green.
Back to Yannick, we're going to animate his fall.
But in order to do that, we first need to nest him.
Then, on this nested sequence we can apply the Transform effect
from which we can animate the position and let him fall through the portal.
You might need to go back and forward a couple of times
to find the right speed and get the physics right.
Lastly, disable Composition's shutter angle
and set one of your own to get a natural motion blur.
A part of the portal and foreground needs to be in front of Yannick,
so what I'll do is duplicate the empty shot and the portal effect above Yannick.
Then draw a mask on the foreground and make sure to go around the inner circle.
Then also do that same thing with the portal effect.
-Ha-ha! -Damn you, Jordy!
And that's all there is to it!
Coming out of the portal works exactly the same.
So, happy editing guys. Thank you so much for watching,
thank you Rocketstock for the support again,
and like always,
stay creative!
Yannick, catch!
-Got it.
-I'm a little bit sick, guys, so I have a little bit of trouble to be happy.