Music Video by me

Thanks again! It's nice that so many like it! :)

The colorcorrection I use is in the Avid system. First I use a sapphire effect called "FilmEffect", but it's not always neccessary. Filmeffect tends to "degrade" the image quality in a good sense, so that it looks more like a grainy film. The colorcorrection in the filmeffect layer push the contrast up and ads some warm tint to it (based on what film you choose in the menu).

But without the filmeffect, you can do a simple color correction that makes video go from **** to awesome.

For Avid:

1. Try to complete the final cut first.
2. Color correct each clip so that the timeline has a continuity through the cut.
(This is what color correction is mainly for).
3. To get the look you want, I suggest that you first look at a movie you think has some great colors and tint. When you choose one, for example a green/blue cold colorscheme or a warm, as I call it, "mexican" warmth, create a layer above all clips.
4. To make it easy I will go for the warm tint.
In the new layer push the red curves shadow area to a slight green tint. This will erease some midtone redness. Then, push the greyscale curves highlights to a level were they almost get overexposed. Lower the shadows so the black doesn't go grey.
5. Now, go into the "hue" part of the color correction tool. Push the midtone ten o'clock to add the warm tone. If you get it all right, your colors now look quite bad. :D
6. Do another layer above that one and take out some percent of the color to a point that you like. If you want more warmth, push the hue midtones to the warm side in THIS layer.

This doesn't work with every type of footage, so you have to experiment ALOT!

But remember this quite good tip when editing in Avid... if you put alot of effects on top of eachother, do NOT render all of them. The top layer is enough and the result is much better image quality. Otherwise all effects filter through eachother and the process is the same as copying old VHS tapes.

Now, I wrote alot and don't have time for spellchecking, so my apol's...
 
Hmm, I don't know why the files disappeared... I used "fileXoom.com" to upload files, but they seem to erease them after a while.

Do someone know about a website where you can upload big files without having to pay?
I got a 16:9 version in much better quality if you tell me! :D
 
amazing video man. Loved the camera work, loved the colors, awesome editing. Major props. I really liked the song too. Some of the best stuff Ive seen on the DVX. and yes the ending was intense.
 
Hey man good work...Dig the music (i may be the only one on here), my next video which ill post here in like mid october, is actually heavier than ur band so ha! hah jk. Only criticism, camera movement, static shots are nice but some of them fell too long (specially the wide full band shot). Would of liked to see more of the hand/person coming out of the ground could of been even better with that. Didn't see the connection to the Cutaway footage to the space besides that it was literally IN the space.
 
Hehe, thanks again and, yeah it lacks camera movement and it's my only regret about this work. It was both a practical and a timelimit problem. Only a day for shooting the video and my homemade dolly wasn't finished.
Next time I post something, it should damn well have camera movement, or else you must kick my ass! :D

The backdrop was taken from a play called "Danny Crow show" and I shot the video on a theatre stage actually... great if you want total blackness and can't afford a soundstage.

Here's two images from behind the scenes, one of me filming a bandmember and the other is a setdesign picture showing the ONLY light used in this video.


Set Design:
http://filexoom.com/files/23271/SkinDeepSetdesign.jpg

Me:
http://filexoom.com/files/23271/MeShooting-Skindeep.jpg
 
Terribly interesting thread and very!!! cool video look. I like the klimax of the video the most. When things starting to get crazy, as you used a cool effect, like if two roles of film were accidently mixed by a sleeping cinema operator. Cool stuff. I also like the thing you mentioned about slow shutter speeds. Very cool tip. I´ll try that soon. Where are you from in pal country? Me- Erfurt, Germany. And yes, set pics would be cool. Like the ligthning and the curtain. Beautiful!
 
I don't know what happened but my FileXoom account is gone... pretty useless site. Do someone know a site where I can upload things for free and then be able to easy link the file like I did earlier?
 
Here are the images from the set... not much, one witha good camera, the other with one of the bands mobilecamera.
 

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