[Approaching truck sound]
What's up guys! It's Jordy here for cinecom.net
and welcome to Copy Cat Friday!
This is a creative series where we find a way to...
...recreate a certain effect from a music video, a film, or any other video creator.
And today we are taking a look at the K-pop girls band Twice,
and we're going to recreate several transitions effects from it,
so let's swing into it!
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So, like I already mentioned, we're looking today at a girls band called TWICE.
And what I always love about the K-pop music videos is their camera style.
It's always so dynamic
and we actually did a video about BTS a while back,
where we recreated five complex camera movements
with some basic tools and a little bit of editing.
Now, this time we're going to recreate 5 transitions from TWICE, the music videos,
and we're going to focus on simplicity.
But that doesn't mean that we can't create some fun set designs in our studio.
[K-pop music fades in]
-Blue backlight.
[Music continues]
The first one is going to be the Turbulent Displacement transition.
And you wanna take one shot from your actor,
another shot from a different actor or setup
and one empty shot of the scene.
Important is that you shoot everything from a tripod.
So, when filming you don't touch the camera, because
your second shot has to be the same position
and don't want a jumper.
And now we change clothes,
but I'm going to make sure that I keep standing on the same spot,
that way we can cut to the exact same position right here,
and that way the transition is going to look very nice.
-Throw me the hat, Yannick!
-Throw me shirt, Yannick!
Editing magic!
In Adobe Premiere Pro you then place your acting or dancing clips next to each other,
and insert a piece of the empty shot underneath the cut of that.
Then select your first clip and head over to the Opacity property.
You wanna animate that value so that the clip fades out to around 40%.
But make sure that the animation only takes a couple of frames.
Then do the exact same thing with the second clip,
only here you wanna start from 40% and go back to 100%.
And because we have that empty shot on the bottom,
the characters will actually now look like a ghost,
instead of having the entire clip fading to black.
Then drag an adjustment layer over the cut
and add the Turbulent Displace effect to it.
And you may already set the displacement to Turbulent Smoother,
then where you like the transition to start, you create a keyframe for the amount,
size and evolution.
In the beginning you don't wanna see your shot to go weird, so...
...we'll just change the value of the amount to 0,
the Size may be around 20 and the Evolution goes to -15.
Then go to where you have the cut between your two clips
and change the amount to 10, the size to 200
and the Evolution to 0.
Then go again a little bit further in time
and now you wanna go back to the same values as you had in the beginning.
And, you know, you can easily do that by selecting your first keyframes,
copying them and pasting them on the ending position.
[K-pop Music]
The next transition is the camcorder transition, like you're seeing right here.
And this one is actually a little bit more complex,
which will require Adobe After Effects and some motion tracking to do the job,
so that's why we came up with this simple solution.
Your shots are nothing special, just film two scenes of whatever you like.
-So, we're trying to make our shot underneath this bridge right here,
but there are just so many cars!
-Go, go, go!
The camcorder is going to be a still photo.
And you can actually get it from a stock library,
but, if you can, I would suggest to make your own still image.
And the reason for that is because you need to match the lighting if your first scene
with that still picture.
So we looked at where the sun was coming from
and placed a light in the studio on that same position as well.
Then snap your picture and bring it into Photoshop.
With the Pen tool we're cutting out the camcorder,
so that we're left with a transparent background.
If you wanna keep it all in Premiere Pro, you can also mask it out in there as well.
Your first shot goes on the bottom, on top of that the camcorder picture,
and on top of that your second shot,
Add a cut on the second layer where your clip on the bottom stops.
Then select the first part and the camcorder,
right-click and choose Nest.
Double click on the nest to open it up
and in here you wanna scale down your normal shot
so that it fits within the display.
To make it blend even better, we're adding a mask around it,
plus increasing the feather.
Then going back to the main sequence,
I'm adding a fake movement to the nested sequence.
And I would recommend to do this with the Transform effect,
And finally I'm adding a gaussian blur to the nested sequence as well,
to make it appear out of focus.
And to make it even more natural,
we'll actually animate the Gaussian blur and make it increase slightly overtime.
Because eventually you wanna have the camera coming closer to the frame.
And, to do that, I'm adding an adjustment layer on top,
add the Transform effect to it and animate the scale
plus the position to make it zoom in.
Also, here make sure to enable Motion Blur.
The transition already works, but probably not so smooth.
That's why I'm first of all adding again that Transform effect to the second clip,
as I want to animate a small bump in the beginning with the Scale property.
They actually didn't do it in their music video this way,
but I believe that this one looks a little bit better, apart from the camcorder motion.
[K-pop music]
The next one is pretty fun.
You wanna film a couple of scenes,
and every time try to match the ending position of your characters
with the beginning position of your follow-up shot.
And that way the transition will come out a little bit better.
Just film your shots and that's it.
And we're going to first record a transition element.
And for that I'm actually using this thing right here, which is a filter holder
for one of our lights.
And we’re just going to wipe that in in front of the green-screen,
and then wipe back out.
But if you don't have something like this, you can also use your hand,
for example make a heart shape,
bring that into the green-screen and then roll back out.
Once you got that shot, you can basically use that anywhere where you want.
If you don't have a green-screen, just print out some green papers
or look for a green t-shirt.
-So, now Jordy is in his end move,
so we're gonna tape it where we stand,
so we can match the next shot with it.
-And I have to stand really really still.
Then in Premiere Pro I'm using the Ultra Key to remove the green.
And that will reveal the two shots I have underneath.
If you can cover up the cut
with the edge of the object when it covers the entire lens,
you already have yourself a nice transition.
But to make it appear more like a lens kind of thing,
I'm adding the Lens Distortion effect to the second clip.
And the only thing you have to do now is animate the curvature from -5 back to 0.
[K-pop music fades in]
And that bring us to the fourth transition,
which is the tree wipe.
Film your subject going in one direction: running, skating, whatever.
Make sure that there's something that passes between your subject and the camera,
like a tree.
Then film a second shot, of again someone going to that same direction,
and, to make the transition go smooth,
we're paying attention to the speed of the following camera.
We're shooting outside of a car, so we could look at the speed indicator.
-So, after the skateboard shots,
we transition to Lorenzo right here, skating.
but he broke his skates!
-Feels bad, man.
-So, Yannick just came up with an ingenious idea,
but, to find out what that is,
make sure to follow us on Instagram and see what we posted over there
and see what Yannick came up with.
It's pretty ingenious, now let's try out if his invention works.
Yeah! So, that didn't work well.
Sorry Yannick, but your invention does not work.
Ok, Lorenzo, I think you're going to have to run with the skates on your hand.
Going again in Premiere, put the shot with the tree on top of the other one.
Select the upper clip and head over to the Opacity property.
Click on the Pen tool to draw a mask next to the tree.
Then enable the Animation, move one frame forward,
adjust your mask and continue.
[K-pop music fades in]
And this brings us to the last transition, which is pretty similar,
but, like you can see over here, we can actually add some extra effects to it
to make it look more realistic.
Film your subject and some vehicle that passes your shot.
And of course, then just take your second shot.
For a smoother transition, try to keep the same focal length and camera height.
In Premiere Pro, you again mask out the back of the truck
as it's passing by, and that will reveal your second shot underneath.
But, you know, to really make this transition work,
we're going to add a few things to it.
First of all, you can work with a smoke machine,
then fill up your space and let someone run quickly through the smoke.
That was Lorenzo, who is doing an internship at Cinecom.
And he's doing a great job at being a truck.
Good job, Lorenzo!
So, this way the smoke flows in a certain direction,
making it seem like it came from the truck.
And you can also add some post-production smoke to it.
Here's a clip I got from Videoblocks,
which I can simply blend on top of my shot, using the Screen blend mode.
You might need to mask out a part of that smoke
and speed it up to get it into the movement that you need.
But, you know, by adding these little elements to it,
it makes the passing truck to be more part of your second clip.
[Approaching truck sound]
-So, what's up with these trucks these days? All that smoke!
So guys, that was it again,
five creative transitions from the music clips from Twice.
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and, like always,
stay creative!
-Catch!
-He's going insane today.
-Yannick, catch!
-It has happened.
He lost his mind.
YouTube is too much for him.