News Cast Experiment

Today we started to learn how to use Adobe Fireworks. Dan showed us how to create a simple desk and background to use when filming with the blue screen. This made us appear to be in a shiny studio! :)

We were split into two groups to begin with and firstly I started messing around with Adobe Fireworks which seemed to me to be easier to use than what I thought it'd be. I used the box tool to create a background and messed around with the pen tool and some effects you could add. Then I added text and exported as a jpg. file.

My desk I firstly had to change the background to be transparent and then create the desk using the rectangle tool. We however had to export this as a PNG 32 format.

Once finished filming myself jabbering in front of the blue screen, I captured the video in Adobe Premiere. From the notes I took from Kim yesterday I was able to understand how to use the chroma key tools etc. This made my life a lot easier. My video was drag and dropped into video 2 and I imported by background and foreground (background onto video 1, foreground onto video 3). I had to mess around with the chroma key settings so the blue screen would vanish. This helped me realise that I wasn't the best reporter because my hair kept some of the blue :/

However in the end I think my video turned out pretty well for just a practice.

I want to learn how to make my hands stay on the desk without dissapearing, but I'm sure if I come to a stiuation like this I can find out :) I tried to mess around with it to fathem it out but I couldn't manage it :/