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It's Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Copy Cat Friday.
This is the series where we recreate a video effect or film technique.
And today we're having a look at Stranger Things.
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Now we can all be like Eleven, a character from the series who can move objects by her mind.
And because we're creative editors with Premiere Pro by our side,
it's pretty simple.
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Our mind-controlling scene was created out of three shots.
The first one was an empty shot, we'll be using this to remove other objects later on.
And because we're going to blend three shots together
we need to film everything from a tripod.
You can take multiple shots like we did in the opening,
but every shot that will have a floating object needs to be taken from a tripod.
Then the next take is where I lift up the knife with a wire.
And you can use fishing wire here, but it's not necessary.
With some tape on the back of the knife, I was able to secure the wire in place.
And while I was doing this, I had a visible counter.
When the counter hit ten seconds I dropped the knife.
And this timing is important for the last shot.
Here we have Yannick starting his mind tricks.
And as he starts we also run the chronometer.
Then meanwhile I hold a second knife, or that same one without the wire, abobe him.
When the counter hits 10, I drop the knife into Yannick's hands.
Make sure that you're somehow on the same position
as where you let the knife fall in the previous shot.
And that's all we have to do. Now we can bring everything inside Premiere Pro.
The empty shot goes on the bottom,
on top of that the floating knife and Yannick's Oscar winning performance.
We're going to remove the wire by going into the Effects Controls
and under Opacity choosing the Pen tool.
This allows us to draw a mask around the knife and you can do this pretty rough.
The only point where it needs to be precise is at the wire itself.
Next you'll need to manually track the mask, so I'll enable the animation for the mask path.
If you want it to be very precise, you need to change your path per frame you move forward.
But we've found out that it also works great by just skipping a few frames.
If your mask is visible, then that's probably because of a lighting difference between your shots.
By increasing the mask feather you can remove that hard edge.
So that's it for the knife, if everything went well
it should float beautifully in the sky right now.
Next up is Yannick. And since I'm standing in his shot, holding that knife,
the first thing that we'll do is draw a mask around Yannick.
And that will solo him and remove me from the scene.
Of course we wanna make sure to cut off the mask beneath my hands.
This mask, we'll also feather a bit.
Not only to remove the hard edges, but also to make the transition of the falling knife better.
Now align the two clips so that the lift off and fall of the knife
comes together with Yannick's reactions.
And this is why we needed to have that timing so right.
All is done now, but since everything was shot on a tripod
it looks pretty static.
Luckily we have a collection of eight handheld camera movement presets
which you can download from our website for free.
I'll leave a link to it in the description below.
Select all your clips, right click and say Nest.
And that will group all of those clips together
to which we can now apply any of the eight different camera shakes to.
And that's it! Thank you guys so much for watching again, and like always...
...Stay creative!
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