Stlyes and Affects

As I have mentioned throughout the blog there are several styles that I wish to explore into.
These include the style of Frank Millers Sin City and a cartoon/pop art affect, I chose these as they suit my superhero narrative the most and will help to increase the aesthetic appeal of the production.



As I was not sure upon whether these processes were vialbe I underwent some rearch, via the populer search engine Goolge. After this search I found a You tube link that guides you through the process of creating a Sin City affect using final cut express 4.

1. Firstly load up Final Cut Express
2. Then import or load the desired piece of footage or imagery
3. Once imported move the chosen material onto the timeline
4. Repeat this with a copy of the material, but placing it directly underneath
5. Select the first piece, once selected go to the effects tab and choose key and then chroma keyer
6. Once this has been done it will appear on the viewer
7. Drag this out of the viewer, as it will provide more ease in use
8. Click colour selector on the right hand corner of the window
9. Choose the desired colour that you wish to remain in frame
10. Then drag out each of the colour spectrum's until all of the selected colour turns black (this particular stage may take some time, to gain the desired effect)
11. Once pleased select invert
12. After this double click the second clip ( the one placed beneath)
13. Go onto the effects tab, scroll down to colour correction and then from this choose colour corrector
14. Turn the saturation levels to zero and the process is then complete.

This effect is becoming more popular and has recently featured in the video game for Nintendo Wii Mad World

This is an overview following a video instructing a user on how to create a cartoon effect using final cut, which is quite similar to the process above.

1. Open up Final Cut Express
2. Import/open the desired movie clip or still image
3. Then move it onto the time line and create a duplicate
4. This copy will be positioned directly below the orignal
5. Select V2 and apply the line art filter
6. Go to the filters tab and then adjust the line art settings to 0.002 for threshold and 0 for smoothness
7. Disable V2
8. Select V1 and then apply the posterize filter
9. Enable V2 again
10. Change the composite mode of V2 to overlay. Acesing this via the modify tab, then composite mode and finally overlay
11. This finishes the process and gives the desired effect.

Below are some examples of using the Sin City affect on a piece of primary footage..

Following this is a piece of test footage including blue as well as red..