Thursday, 11 December 2014

'Instagram' Style

This hipster-ish edit is what is often used on Instagram to make them look more 'vintage'.

To do this, you would have to make the footage as flat as possible. To do this, you either set it to Cinestyle, but some DLSR models don't have it, so what you do is - set it to user def 1 or 2 (standard) and set the contrast and colour tone to zero.

After that you are set to shoot. It doesn't really matter what you film, just make sure that everything is properly lit. That means:

- There are shadow and highlight tines
- Don't have anything too blown (too bright) or too contrast dark
- Basically everything very levelled and even.

Typically it's best to shoot outside.

After you are finished with what you want to film, go ahead and upload your footage to FCP and drag and drop them into the timeline.

When you have done that, go to the tool bar at the top of the screen and click onto the effects tab > stylise > solarise

This will create a negative of the footage but that can be fixed. To do that, next go onto the filter tab in the viewing window and lower the 'amount', and it should create a start to the 'instagram' effect. To finish off the effect completely, go into the tool bar and go into effects again. From there, go into colour correction 3 way.

Rise the reds in the white colour disk. You can messed around with the blacks colour disk to gain the look you want. ONce you're happy with that. It's time to go onto the next phase.

Go onto Youtube and type in 'Film Burns' and download it through a youtube convertor to MP4. Drag and drop after it has downloaded into your timeline and into your footage. Right click the footage > Composition > Overlay. You should be able to adjust the position of the feature, and you should be done.

You could add black bars at the top and bottom of your footage. Just click effects in the tool bar > video filters > stylise > vignette.

And are done. Officially.


http://youtu.be/9BqW_sjryto

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