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It's Copy Cat Friday! Woohoo!
A weekly series where we recreate an effect or technique...
...from a music video or film.
My name is Jordy for cinecom.net and yes I got a new haircut.
But that's not important, because we'll be recreating the text fly-in effects...
...from the Chainsmokers music video, closer.
And the cool thing about this effect is that it's actually super simple.
So, once you got the song and the lyrics, there're two ways of pulling this effect off.
The first one is where you write down the lyrics of your favorite song on pieces of paper.
You can print it out in a brush-like font or actually paint the text on it.
Important is that you have a good contrast between the paper and text.
For example, black text on a white paper or white text on a black paper.
-So, we are going to create soft lighting.
Which you can achieve with two lights,
one on each side.
We're gonna put 'em way up high, which will create soft shadows.
I will put the shadows underneath the subject. Let's test it.
Then just let the camera roll on a steady tripod...
...and move the papers in and out of the frame.
We played back the song while doing this so that the text was synchronized.
It also helps to do this with two so that you can work fast.
And while you're moving the text in and out...
...be careful though that your fingers are not visible.
And that's the first technique.
In the second one, we laid the paper on the floor,
again on a white surface.
Now the subject stays still, but we'll move the camera over it.
And also here we are mimicking the movement of the text...
...like we would see in the music video.
-Alright, guys, everything has been shot.
We can now find some romantic scenes that we can put our text on.
[Romantic music]
So we got some romantic shots and flying by text,
now we can merge the two together. I'll be using Adobe Premiere Pro for that,
but the technique is so simple, you're probably able to follow along...
...if you're working in Final Cut or something else too.
Put your romantic shot on the bottom and your text clip on top of that.
If your video is a little bit too flat,
you can use Lumetri color to add in some more contrast.
The deeper the blacks are and the whiter the whites, the easier the effect will go.
Since we have a white background and black text,
I'm going to first invert this with the invert effect.
Then I head over to my Opacity...
...from which I can change the Blending Mode to Lighten.
Bang! That's it!
I told you guys it was simple.
[Romantic music fades in]
So, Yannick thought he would get payed extra for doing this, but...
Yannick, if you're watching this...
...you're not.
Exciting news for you guys, though,
We have a complete Adobe Premiere Pro beginners course.
You can learn the entire foundation of Professional video editing.
We have our class hosted on Skillshare,
who suddenly decided to give everyone two months access...
...to all our filmmaking courses, completely for free.
But that offer only stands right now in March.
So make sure to check it out, you can find a link to it in the description below!
Thank you all so much for watching...
...and as always...
...stay creative!
-...underneath the subject...
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-So...
-...behind the subject..
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[Yannick sings]
-...a flat lighting, which will... which, which, which...