Practice Editing of Still Shots

Alongside filming we decided to try out some of the effects that we were going to use in the editing of our footage. We thought it would be easier for us to try out the effects and ideas previously so we are familiar with how the new editing programme works and familiar with how to create certain effects. We did this in order to get ourselves familiar with the programme as not all of us have used photoshop before.

One of our ideas was to show the sky in the iris of an eye which are the visuals to a certain part of lyrics in the song.

This image of the sky inside the iris off an eye was created using Adobe Photoshop, this still image will be used in our final product and linked with the Lyric "When I Look down in your bright blue eyes, I can see the skies."

The process involved was complicated and took a lot of time (about 3 hours). From the original image (featured below) I had to cut around the Iris, then take a copy of the cut out. Next I placed the eye into a new layer in front of a background of the sky.

I then used the magic wand tool to erase the background. After this it was pretty simple I just pasted the sky (which is no exactly the same size as the Iris due to the above the steps. ) Back into the original picture of the Iris, and faded out the sky so that it blended into the eye rather than it standing out like a sore thumb.

The hardest part of the process was getting the reflection of the eye lashes to stay in the image.

At this time we were also thinking about ideas for our ancillary tasks and ideas for the art work of the digipak. So we decided to try and see whether some of our ideas were possible to achieve and tested them on a few random pictures. Some of the editing was very simple and straightforward to achieve the effects we wanted (such as colour grading and adding shadows). Other ideas however took much longer to achieve and needed much more effort (such as creating shilouttes etc).

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