Make your SHADOWS come to LIFE in Premiere Pro
- January 14, 2024
- Posted by: MainInstructor
- Category: After Effects C Go Premiere Pro
Video Title: Make your SHADOWS come to LIFE in Premiere Pro
-I dare you for a duel! -Agh! Good morning! Or good evening, of course I cannot know when you’re watching this. But one thing I can tell is that… …you’re looking beautiful today. And that’s all we need for another exciting episode of Copy Cat Friday. If you’re new to the channel, welcome!
This is a weekly series where we recreate an effect… …or camera technique from a music video or film. And today is all about Joyner Lucas and Chris Brown. A recent music video where you can see them dancing with a prominent shadow on the wall.
And if you look closely, that shadow is moving differently. Magic? Yes! No, it’s just a simply trick in Adobe Premiere Pro. But I first wanna show you guys a very quick way… …of how to pull off this effect without editing. [Upbeat music fades in]
Never ask an intern to set up the 2×2 frame. Cause they’ll break it! Now, Yannick, what are you looking for? -A [Dutch word]… I don’t know how to call it in English! -So, Lorenzo just broke one of the C-stands right here, and now we are…
…now we have lost one of the screws, or roundelecus, like we call it in Dutch, but… …we can’t find it. Good job Lorenzo! So, what we have right here is a 2×2 frame, you can also use a curtain or anything else, which you can shine lights through.
Because behing that framing we have a light. So, if I would stand between this frame and that light over there, I would cast a shadow onto it. So that means if my colleague Yannick is going to stand between that frame and light, and I’m going to stand on the opposite side, like this,
It seems like Yannick, or Yannick’s shadow is my shadow. So, if I would raise my hand… …it kinda seems like I’m doing this. Pretty cool, huh? But then suddenly I would do something else, for example just stand here, and my shadow is going to dance, or do something crazy. Look at that! Magic!
No, it’s not. It’s just a filming trick. Now, guys, to make sure that this shadow also seems like it is my shadow, we have a softbox light over there. And I’m using a softbox because it is very important that… …this light is not going to cast actual shadows of me on the screen.
So, that way I have a frontal lighting and it seems like that is my shadow. That’s the idea behing it. [Music level increases] That was stupidly simple, but it’s actually done quite often like this in films. The second technique is through a simple editing trick,
And the setup for that is a little bit different. -We have a new package! It’s a long package. [Music fades in] -Ta-da! Now it’s time to setup the lights! Yannick, catch! So, for the lighting we’re just going to need one big spot of light. Important is that you are working with hard lighting,
Because if your lighting is going to be soft you wont see those hard shadows. So, we’re going to use the Stella lights for that. We’ve actually made a dedicated video about these lights, which you can find also a link to in the description below. Anyways, these lights are pretty awesome…
…in the way that they work just with a battery. And… …they also come with a ton of accesories, like this fresnel mount. And this mount will kind of bundle the light more, so that we have a more diect beam, much harder light source. -Ta-da!
I’d like to do a quick shoutout to Rocketstock who’s sponsoring us today. They’ve recently launched a brand new transition pack called Tidal. Is a collection of more than 100 very fun transitions… …in a water or wave-type style. And the cool thing is that it works on any video editor, such as…
…Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut, it doesn’t matter. So, make sure to check it out by following the first link in the description below. In the video clip they used a par light, that are one of these theater spots. We don’t have one of those…
…so we’re going to cheat a little bit and use something called black wrap. So, basically what this is is just aluminum foil painted black. But it can withstand some heat. So you can use this with any type of light, which is pretty cool.
And you can just wrap this around anything to focus the light… …a bit better. And that way you will see… …a much smaller circle of light on the background here. There we go, much better! If you wanna get long shadows make sure that your lights are not up too high.
Keep them relatively low, like this, and perhaps move your light back. It’s also very important that you don’t have any spill lighting, so that’s why we are closing up the dome right here in the studio… …and that way you don’t have any other spill light.
So, if you are in a room, make sure to close the curtains so it’s completely dark. Of course you don’t need a vinyl like we’re using, you can also just use a white wall or any other surface.
Same goes for the lighting, if you can make a hard shadow, then you’re good to go. So that could even be a strong sunlight. What is important though is that you film your subject from a tripod. You’re going to need a fixed camera standpoint. Then just film your subject standing still…
…and also a shot where he’s dancing. Once you got your shots, you can bring everything inside Premiere Pro. Place your two shots on top of each other. Then select your upper clip, head to the effects controls… …and click on the Pen tool under Opacity.
Now just draw a simple mask around your shadow, but make it big enough. Then play with the feather to remove the edge of the mask. And bang! That’s it! A super simple masking technique, but if you know how it works, you can actually use this technique on other things as well.
-So, we’re in the bathroom right now, guys. And that is because we’re going to shoot a very popular scene, it’s the mirror scene. So what I’m gonna do now… …is wash my hands here at the sink, and I’m not going to look into the mirror.
But while I’m washing my hands I’m going to remember the movement that I’ve done. Because I’m going to do that exact same movement twice. And this time we’re going to focus on the reflection. Now, in the reflection now, I’m going to look up and look to myself,
Which is pretty cool for these horror kind of scenes. So, we have to shoot everything, these two shots, from a tripod. So, that’s why we also have a camera right here, the GH5 on a tripod. The mirror shots go exactly the same in Premiere.
Draw a mask around the mirror which allows you to blend the two clips together. You can do some really fun things with this. And if you would like to take that edge off the static shot, because you are filming everything from a tripod, then you can add a fake handheld movement to it.
You can find a link to our free handheld presets in the description below. And that’s it again! Thank you guys so much for watching, and like always, stay creative! -Help me. -I dare you for a duel!
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Hello, when you are recording happiness in your video, please put the link of that video in the description so that we can use it too
There's a dozen ways to do this that is simple and doesn't require all the nonsense that you went through.
Not really helping though. I have no space to place that thing plus I have nobody else with me to do this effect. How do I do this with video effects?
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Video start at 5:00
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Bro make ghost shadow moving faster from back horror…..plz……….
1:07 wat zegt die?
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1:00. Does anyone know where or how I can get a frame like that?
So i have a very big question. Can i do this with photoshop too? Pls help.
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Do kevin parrys fire trick
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Film shot a where you are dancing and your shadow is visible and shit b where you are just standing and then mask it and move it so it connects and the shadow even looks like you million iq
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who watches their videos because they are good but doesn't have premiere pro.
Love your videos from Buffalo ny/ Miami Florida/ and Atlanta Georgia as a videographer that film and edit music videos (But due 2 lack of imagination my clients wants less than basic videos) how do I convince them to let me get creative control!
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