hey everyone this is Grace from Kapwing and today in this video i'm going to show you how
to do the silhouette challenge which is a new trend on tiktok where people are filming a red
silhouette version of themselves and playing it to a remix of the song put your head on my shoulder
in the background making a video like this can look complicated but it's actually pretty simple
as long as you know the right steps and right now i'm gonna break them down for you
show you how to film the clips where to find the red silhouette effect and then also
how to edit the clips together in a really easy way using a video template that we made
it already has a song on it so all you have to do is upload your clips and photos whatever else you
want to be in the video and you're done you can post it to tech talk if you're new here make sure
to subscribe to stay up to date with all our tick tock tutorials and tips and now let's get into it
so i'm going to first quickly do an overview of the process you'll basically find a place to film
where the lighting is right film a clip with the lights on that looks kind of normal and then film
a second clip where you have the red filter on using snapchat then after those two clips are
filmed you'll put them all together in either tiktok if you want or you can use our template
so that being said the first step is finding a place to film and this is the most important part
in my opinion because if the lighting isn't right the red silhouette effect won't be as accentuated
most people have been using a doorway since that is a place that can satisfy the requirements for
the filming but you could even just use like a hallway or somewhere else and the requirements are
basically that for the first clip where it's just the normal clip there has to be light around the
camera then when you film the red clip your phone or filming device should be in the dark there
should be a light behind you that creates the silhouette i've had two places where this could
potentially work one is this hallway in my house it's a dark hallway with no windows but there's
some daylight behind me some natural light so for the red silhouette part the camera will be in the
dark but there will be still this light behind me which to create the silhouette as you can see here
another place i found that this worked is just in a closet i put the camera in the closet
and the daylight behind me was enough to create a silhouette too so once you've
found your filming spot the second step is to film the beginning clip the normal
clip without the red filter where you're basically you can do whatever you want some people
are just getting into position some people are just walking around but the most important part
to remember is that you want to end this clip on the position that you're going to start the
red clip with i used my hallway to film this in terms of camera placement you can just stack it on
books or whatever you have around to make it the height you want or you can use a tripod like i did
here then in my first clip i just basically set up the camera and walk backwards and my ending
position for the first clip is me crossing my arms cool so once that's done the third step
is to film the red silhouette clip as i said you want to make sure that this clip starts
the position you're in is the position you ended with in the previous clip to make the red effect
really easily you can use the snapchat vin rouge filter so to get that filter just go to snapchat
click the smiley icon and then click explore and just search and start typing vin rouge or it'll
be one of the trending lenses and then the red filter should be on once you're ready to start
filming make sure your camera is basically in the same position as it was in the previous clip
you also want to make sure any lights that were on in the first clip are turned off then you can
start recording by holding down the button in the middle and lock the video so you can move back and
like do whatever positions by dragging to the side so record your positions do whatever you want here
then stop the recording and make sure you download that clip by clicking the button
on the bottom left and that will save it to your camera roll and the final step is to put it all
together you can edit this wherever you want as i said earlier but we do have this template that
we made because editing this in tiktok can be annoying depending on what you want to do
this template works completely online you can just add your clips into it and it already has the
sound attached and then you can just download the video and upload it to tiktok or wherever you want
so the template is linked in the description below it's the first link and i'm going to be using that
so i'm here on the template page now i'm just going to go ahead and click make it on the bottom
if you play the video you can hear that the song is already attached and this is just an image that
i took so the first step is to delete the image by clicking it and then clicking the trash can
then to add your clips so you have your normal clip and then you have your red clip you can go
to the scenes tab in the upper toolbar and click to upload whatever files from your photo library
so some people like to use the red clip like the video but another option that a lot of people
do is just add screenshots so i'm gonna do that because i think it looks kind of cool and you can
time it to the music so i'm gonna go back to the videos i originally took that in my photo library
and the first step you want to make sure that the pho that the videos are aligned in the same way
so i noticed this after but the video in snapchat is flipped from the normal video that i just took
in my phone camera as you can see here the door is on the right side of the hallway but and then
in the red video i took the doors on the left side so you want to flip one of the clips
so that they will be in the same orientation and the shots will line up when you edit it i'm going
to flip the red one so to do that on an iphone at least you can click edit and then click the
square down below and click the top left icon and that just completely flips it on a vertical axis
then you can just click done so now that video is in the right orientation i'm
going to go ahead and take my screenshots so you can just scroll through the video
and take whatever screenshots you want just make sure the only the photo is on the screen and not
any of the other stuff then once you have your screenshots you can go back to coupon
in safari and then as i said before click to upload from your photo library so make sure you
choose the original the normal video and then either the red video that you took or the red
screenshots that you just took so now they're all loading into the editor and the first thing you
want to do is make sure that this is the right size for tick tock so just hit 9 by 16 aspect
ratio and then also you'll notice that there might be a border you can either fit with the border
or you can zoom and crop so that make sure that all the clips and photos will be completely
zoomed in with no white border then to rearrange the different layers into the order you want
you can just click them and drag them so i'm gonna move this video to the original normal video to
the very top and then the first pose that i need to have is the one where i'm standing with my arms
crossed which was the start of the red clip so that's in order then you can trim your original
clip and also adjust the timing of the photos so i'm going to change the timing of each photo
to around two seconds so to do this just click the time icon on one of the photos and then you
can change your duration so as i said two seconds and i'm gonna apply that to all the images but you
can do them individually if you want as well and as i said earlier the sound is already attached
to this video and the beginning part that you have before the song changes which is like indicating
the red section you have around 12 seconds for that original part so i'm gonna click trim my
first video the normal video down to around 12 seconds i'm going to click that scissors icon
and then trim this down using these bars and you want to make sure that the end of this first clip
is exactly on the position that you start the red clip with so that's my arms cross that looks good
so this is around 12 seconds i'd say um i'm gonna click done and the rest of it looks good to me
so i'm gonna go back and click edit in studio to preview the video and make any other edits
so you can add things like text or image overlays or even subtitles if you want
using the options in the above toolbar if you do want to change the timing of the sound itself or
use a different sound you can go in the top toolbar to edit audio and here you'll be able
to do things like trim it the audio or just remove it and add your own thing once you are happy with
how everything looks click the red export video button and it'll take a few moments for your video
to load once your video has finished loading if you see a small watermark in the corner you can
remove that for free just by signing into your complaint account then to save it to your device
just click download and then if you're on a iphone you'll have to click download again click the top
right corner arrow pointing down and then click the video that you just made and click the bottom
left icon and then click save video and now your video should be in your camera roll from here you
can go and post it on tick tock or just wherever you want this is what my final video looked like
put your head on my shoulder
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