Editing on Adobe After Effects & Premier Pro

In order to create a series of glitches, effects and our title sequence, we decided to use both Adobe After Effects and Premier pro. These two programs were vital, (along with Final Cut Pro) in our process of creating a film opening.

The inspiration and help 

If you refer back to our editing programs post, we decided to revert to Youtube tutorials and professional websites which guided us to create our own effects.
This particular tutorial was vital in helping us to produce our killer glitches:

• One reason why we used this particular video was because it had thousands of views with positive comments - this encouraged us to use this video as help and inspiration as it was simple to follow 
• Timing is a big factor and many videos and tutorials that we found lasted around 45 mins or more. This is why we chose this video as it only lasted 17 mins which meant that it was simplified for the audience.
• In addition, the use of visual aids such as Youtube videos were extremely useful as you are able to pause and complete the step. You can also actually see what you need to press etc - this is better than step by step written instructions because they can be misinterpreted. 

The killer's montage/glitches

The killer's glitches were edited and created on After Effects and took around 1 hour to perfect and complete.

• Firstly, we cut the clips that needed glitches and imported them onto the program, where we started off adding a range of default After effects filters. These defaults included both 'distort' 'smear' and 'griddler'. 
• These default effects had to be adapted to the actual video and had to be synchronous too
• The horizontal lines effect was the effect 'griddler' and in order to make them extremely small, we had to change the width and height of the lines. This can be found in the left hand bottom corner, where there are a variety of tools
• Under this, we were also able to change the colour of the video and create a Red, Blue & Green colour effect
• Along with this, you are able to see a moving glitch that runs up and down the killer's face
• To do this, we had to create a new composition and add the 'smear' effect' In order for the effect to move up and down, we had to drag the small transform dots. 
• After dragging these dots to the top of the page ( outside of video) we had to create a keyframe for the 'smear' effect. These key frames set the precise times in which the effect moves up and down.  

The black & white typing screen

For the glitch that pops up from time to time on our film opening, we also used After effects, but this time we imported a picture from google.

This picture was found under the 'Verbose mode' title and after watching a series of movies for inspiration, the 'verbose' effect created an idea that the person was 'hacking' into the device of the character.

In order to create a typing effect, we watched this particular video to get some help:

For the green glitch, we used the default 'griddler' effect once again, but adjusted the width of each line that appeared and also managed to change the colour of the glitch. 

Green was the colour we decided on because we knew that it would be eye catching and allows the audience to ask questions on what just 'popped' up.