Spider Man Music Video
The Why
Spiderman 1, is the first ever spider man film directed by Sam Raimi and produced by Marvel studios. This editing exercise chosen movie is Spider man 1 because it is a typical American super hero movie that has a different perspective than other super hero movies. This film was chosen in particular for one thing, it's comic style. Its style was going for a little to the comic book look in the film due to the introduction and the ending of the movie. As such, it enabled me to make it more comic like by playing and testing its style throughout the whole music video. Due to the jump of stories in Spider Man, it gives an editor and challenging task in exploring and doing types of effects to apply with, stylishness, color grading, montage, visual effects, and the films content.
Theme
The main theme of the music video is going for a very much comic book feel to it and to associate a small innocent love story in between. The whole purpose is comics, adding color grading, comic book boxes and stripes to make the settings of it be understood fast by the audience who would know what comics look like and feel like.
Song
Since the movie is about super hero powers and in such typical story. The song Everyday super hero by smash mouth relates to the story of peter parker (Spider man) as he develops his powers and becomes a daily super hero with a story. Comics in general would use rock, punk rock or surf rock for their theme and style because it does create hype for its theme and it fits the genre of the film. Lyrical view doesn't fit the movie storyboard. However, tweaking the story of the film to make it fit the song is the best solution.
Software's used
• Sony Vegas 12 pro (main source of editing)
• Adobe Premiere CS6 (for more control at transactions and blending options)
• Adobe After Effects CS6 (for animating all the words added such as "BAM!" ,for comic like effects, masking few shots from the movie, and track motion one shot to add text tracking it to a specific point)
Behind the scenes:
I used a free ready made after effects template made by a user from free AE template websites. However, it is not fair for doing this without effort, so I made many changes and made it look deferens in the music video. And here are few changes I made.
• Changed camera options in shots of the template
• Removed all effects added in such as, twitching effects, camera shakes, comic like color grading, and sound effects.
• Things I added myself are sound effects from the movie, I changed all (titles, more pictures, camera movements, added zooming in and zooming out, and changed all colors in it).
Color Correction
There are 2 different color corrections (all comic looks, movie footage) for making 2 different feels in 1 whole stylistic piece. In the comic color correction, 2 adjustment layers were added, 1 making more contrast and 1 is pure cartoon effect. Combining both of them creates an almost comic like look. The second color correction is a big different combination of video effects (Color correction, Brightness & contrast, secondary color correction, cookie cutter, Rays, and Curves)
TEXT Effects
There are many text added throughout the whole music video following the lyrics, and some are just extra to add more comic feel to it. The text effect that follows the lyrics is just more like a style which follows the story of the music video. In the other hand, The "BAM" & "POW" are just a typical comic style of fighting and dodging things. Adding all these text is just better than being plain and empty.
Editing Style
It all followed the main concept of comic books and short story telling, by making it fast cuts and combining 3 videos together in different layers in order to create the meaning of the scene faster and with less time consumed. Theoretically speaking, this editing style is not mentioned in the slides. They are not concentrating on emotion too much but mostly to the song lyrics and the story build up. Therefore, this style of editing is just concentrating on the film and the song meaning and story to fit it perfectly, and I'm using the kuleshov effect to make the audience understand the main characters mind, after I was inspired by his ways of editing.
Spider Man - Everyday Superhero
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