Planning: Green Screen & Lip Syncing

Here is a section of what I created using an existing music video, a green screen and lip syncing.

We were given the task of replacing Adele with another singer in which we had to match up the lip syncing to the existing audio. I managed to match the audio and the singers lip syncing fairly well. The singer actually sang along to the playing track and I then removed the audio from these clips. A green screen was used so that the background could be altered, below there is a video demonstrating how I did this. Also I had to adjust the sizing and placement of the singer to cover Adele at certain points, this was easily done and I have explained how to do so at the end of this post. This process will help me in the future when in the post production phase of my own music video as if I want to I have the ability to incorporate aspects of lip syncing and the green screen.

Below is a recording of how I removed the green screen in Adobe Premier Pro. I used a 'Video Effect' called 'Ultra Key' to achieve this as shown in this video.

Planning: Green Screen

Incase we want to use a green screen to create an interesting look and feel to our music video to add different backgrounds we tried our skills at green screening today.



Go into 'Effects' then 'Video Effects' and drag the 'Ultra Key' over the clip you want to remove the backround (the green screen).

Then go into 'Effect Controls'

Then look down and you will see under 'Ultra Key' there is a little pipet, click on this.

With the pipet tool, click onto the green background. 

Which will remove the green around the person which will reveal the other video clip underneath.

I wanted to move the first image slightly to the right so the underneath image could be seen better. To do this I double clicked the clip and simply moved the box around to position it where I wanted.

Planning: Editing Music Video

We had the task of creating a music video with cut up sections of the existing music video from the artist Macklemore. Learning how to cut to the beat was one of the main things I found difficult at first. Here is a section of the finished product.

Planning: Speed

Sometimes clips will look so much more effective at a different speed. Slow motion can especially effective in music videos.


To edit the speed of a clip, right click the selected clip and click 'Speed/Duration...'

This window will pop up. To slow down the clip, reduce the percentage or to speed up the clip increase the percentage.

Planning: Video Effects

I decided to mess around with the effects in Adobe Premier Pro so that when I come to edit my own music video I can incorporate the effects I like.

You can find the 'Effects' tab at the bottom left-hand corner. Then go into 'Video Effects'. You can view the selected effect on a clip by dragging it on to the clip.

I wanted to add a coloured tints to the clips in my music video so I selected 'Fast Color Corrector'.

I used the colour wheel in 'Effect Controls' to select an orange tint to create a sense of an older, retro era.

Here you can see on the right, the original clip and on the left the added effect.

This clip was too warm toned to match the rest of the clips in my sequence.

Therefore I used the 'Fast Color Correction' again and went into the 'Effect Controls' tab to decrease the level of saturation.

This effect resulted in a less orange toned clip which was much more similar to the rest.

Planning: Learning To Edit

I have developed my technical skills and have learnt to edit using Adobe Premier Pro. For now I have learnt the basics and edited together some clips to create a simple video.



Open up Adobe Premier Pro.

Select 'New Project' or if going back to a project, select it under 'Recent Projects'

Name the project so that it doesn't automatically name it 'Untitled' and click 'OK'

Adobe Premier Pro opens up to look like this.

Then change the workspace from 'Editing'  to 'Editing (CS5.5)'

This workspace makes it much easier to edit.

To import the footage, go to 'File' and then 'Import...'

By selecting the folder with all the clips in, all of the clips within the folder will be imported.

The files won't take long to import.

All of the footage will appear as a folder on the left.

Clicking on this folder will open it up and all the clips can be viewed. You can scroll over a clip and quickly view it using the space bar.

Or by double clicking a clip you can view the clip in a larger size and edit it ready for the timeline.

Here you can select what part of the clip you want. By clicking the open bracket to start the clip and the closed bracket to end the selection.

You can just drag the video without the audio into your timeline by dragging the footage in by a button which resemble a video roll.

Here I have began to add clips together.

If you want to shorten clips you can use the razor tool on the left and cut the clip.

I also added audio into my video. To do this I imported the audio just as I did the footage as shown above. I used effects on the music, such as fading it in at the beginning. I achieved this by selecting 'Effects' on the bottom left-hand side and then 'Audio Transitions' I then chose the transition I wanted and dragged it on to the desired clip.