Movie Opening Blog Post #17

Editing Process-

In this blog post I will be talking about me practicing my editing with the "mirror doppleganger" and I will also be kind of showing how it looks to create this effect in premier pro.

What I did is I made 2 recordings of myself in front of the mirror but with the first recording I was doing whatever in front of the mirror and in the second recording I decided that I want to look at the camera for the fun of it and the fact that I just needed to do something different that the first recording is I could capture that "mirror doppleganger" effect that I want to incorporate into my movie opening.

This is what I've done with my first recording, I've made a mask using the draw tool so that I could cut out the part of the clip where it's not showing my mirror self because what I do after cutting out the mirror part in the clip where I want my normal self is I drag the recording of my mirrored doppleganger right over the recording that I used the draw tool on. What happens is both of the clips end up overlaping, however, because of the fact that I removed the mirrored part in the first recording, once I overlap the two, only the mirrored doppleganger clip gets shown alongside the normal clip giving it that effect.

The highlighted pen is the draw tool that Im using to create the effect.

This is what happens with the draw tool and when you connect all the dots with the draw tool, the area within the connected dots remains and the area outside disappears 

If you look closely at this picture you will realize that the me that is not in the mirror isn't doing the same thing as the me inside the mirror, which is the effect that I wanted to get and this is the effect that Im going to use for the majority of the movie opening. Well..... That is until the mirror doppleganger escapes the mirror and ends up "in the same world" that I'm in.....

PS: I WILL BE SHOWING THE FULL EXAMPLE CLIP IN THE NEXT BLOG WITH WILL BE MY PRODUCTION PROCESS.