Manipulating Images:

Adjusting the RGB Curves

To make my clips look more professional, I manipulated them. To do this I clicked the icon that said ‘Effects,’ and chose what effects I needed to manipulate my images. In my first scene I chose to blur the first few seconds. I did this by using key frames and then animated and adjusted the value of the blur to 0, when it came to focus on the couple, sat under the tree. Secondly, I then sharpened all the clips. First of all I put the sharpness value up to 62, however I got peer feedback on that, and got told that it looked unnatural, so to fix it I brought the sharpness back, so the image looked natural. As well as that I used RGB curves to brighten and darken the contrast. Using RGB curves helped me gain more control of the colours in the image, for example; the reds, greens and blues. I mainly used red and green, due to the red giving the inside scenes a friendlier, cosy look and the green I used for the scenes outside, to give them a natural look. However I did not manipulate the images with the colour blue, due to blue being a depressing and sad feeling, whereas in a majority of my scenes my talents are happy. Furthermore, I also used the Shadow/Highlight effect. In the Wedding scene you can see where the sun is reflecting. I used this tool by creating more shadows, to help create the image into a natural look. When I manipulated many of my clips, I had to render them so they didn’t pause unnaturally. At the end of the video, my end scene fades out to white. Due to it being a wedding scene I thought that white was the best colour to use to fade out, because white is a pure colour and after weddings couples want everything to be fresh and brand new, the white symbolises this idea.

Looking back at my music video now, I believe that I used the correct manipulations to transform my original unedited clips to a professional quality music video.