I first put the music that would be played on the night into my after effects composition, because the video wouldn't be effective if i added it in at the end. I then started listening to the music and selecting the best clip we had collected to go into which place/order.
The music fades in at the beginning, so i thought the best clip to fit this would be the red slowly moving towards the screen seemingly out of nowhere, however i edited out the part where it hits the screen as i thought it was too early to introduce "explosions".
Once I had worked out where and at what time to cut it, i added some sharpen, hue and saturation, curve effects just to sproose things up a bit. I also had it fade out to the next clip because as i learnt from my earlier test, cutting from clip to clip doesn't look so great or classy.
For the next part i decided to introduce the clip of green hitting the surface of the water which also fades in. However i stretched the footage so that it would cut off the water below as i knew i would want to use the waters as a separate clip later. Again with this clip i played with effects to make it look more presentable.
At this early stage of the video i wanted all the videos to fade in and out for the simple reason that the music was being a little undeceive so i didn't want to set a certain style or speed to the video just yet.
Another fade in transition. I'll be honest, i didn't really have to do much to this clip for the simple reason it already looked good, however i did still play around with colour correction, hue and saturation and of course my favourite tool for blurry videos, Sharpen. The reason i didn't have to do much to the clip is that it perfectly goes from right to left of the screen, I was thinking of having the jet shoot from top to bottom to create a more surreal look, but i didn't want to ramp up the video until the music got going.
The next part of the music went all cheeky, and i really wish we had filmed some glitter fluttering through the air with the slow motion camera, but alas we didn't. The only way round it was to introduce a clip where the liquid was hitting the surface hard enough for individual droplets to spray.
Another problem arose, i wanted to get the droplets in before the song changed from cheeky to orchestral and the only way of achieving this was to reverse the clip, even though this was intended as a last minute experimental fix it turned out to be really effective. The droplets are pulled back when i want them to, and just as the music changes again the goo forms back together then lifts off. Also for this clip i had to zoom quite far into an existing video then turn up sharped quite far, i'm just glad i haven't lost too much quality.
For the next part i wanted some really close up explosion shots, again i had to use sharpen to my advantage. The music at this point is starting to take shape, so rather than fading out the clip i just simply let it snap to the next one.
This time the clip doesn't fade in, it just appears. One of the very first clips i used earlier had a bottom half of water, i cut that off and decided to turn it upside down to create a really surreal epic look. This is the part of the video where the music starts to build up more and more, so i thought i should do the same with the footage, introduce the better half of it that we managed to collect.
Again ramping it up, inspired by the very early work we did, on the first client presentation, the screenshots of the 2 same images mirrored which Nick produced. I started the clip just as the female vocalist started to drop in pitch, so the drop of the goo fits the drop of the pitch, and once the water rises the vocals get louder and more instruments are introduced making the clip fit in extremely well.
This fades out, i originally wanted the downwards squirt of the next clip to go through the fading out centre of the previous clip, but it was best to let everything fade to pitch black as the vocals after this were really starting to get faster.
I thought it would be a good time to introduce a close up explosion shot, i ended up using one of my favourite clips for this, the green lube mixture explosion. With this clip i wanted it to fade in and be in the centre of the screen for maximum effect, i once again had to play with colour correction, hue and saturation and sharpness. It would have been great if i could've made the background pitch black but i honestly didn't know how, i tried using colour correction but it interfered too much with the goo.
I ended up fading this in because i thought it flowed well with this music, at this point the singing starts talking about flickering embers so i thought this shot fit perfectly with what was being said for the simple reason the goo here collides with each other in such a way it causes it to flicker in the light.
Here there is talk of a falling star so i thought it was best to use a clip where the liquid sparkled like stars in the night sky, i also once again mirrored it just to add to the effect and utilise more space with the effect.
Almost done now, but i chose this clip because there are talks of floating slowly upward and i thought it would be nice to turn this piece of footage on its side and give the illusion that the stream is being shot slowly upward towards the sky when in actual fact it is going to the right.
This is it, the last part of the video, the grand finale at the end of the first score, this is by far the best shot in our whole collection, there are so many colours from the two colliding streams. It is simple beautiful I couldn't put it in any other place otherwise it would undermine the entire video. I played with some more effects to make it nice and bright, but it didn't need much doing to it as it is a utterly perfect shot.
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