HEEE!! I FEEL NO SHAME; YOUR BOOK MADE ME CRY FOUR SEPARATE TIMES.
Heh, actually I 'cheated' for most of the effects; Sean Bean was actually in most of those scenes. I don't trust myself to edit frame by frame and be able to maintain a smooth motion with any degree of accuracy. Instead I took the basic glow effect (opacity 30%, brightness/contrast +35ish, blue tint) and constrained it with a 16 pt. garbage matte around Sean Bean...then I keyframed it so that the glowy area followed him when he moved. I tried to keep the scenes out of context (when I needed it out of context) by changing the color...most of the golden sections where Bean was following Bale were originally blue, and thus hopefully unrecognizable at casual glance. (and the slight-of-hand via fast cutting helped as well =D )
In a couple areas I took the Sean Bean from the previous clip and extended it a bit, with a bit of the bottom-non-blurred portion on the layer beneath it. The non-blurred portion has a layer that's just the edge, with gaussian blur, because Premiere is stupid and doesn't let you blur the edge of your garbage matte.
the snowglobe-gunshot sequence is one of my faves...possibly because it worked with the least amount of anguish ::wryyy:: ditto with the 'lovers' sequence.
The martial arts practice was actually a later clip when I stared at the vid and realized I wasn't adding enough 'world' to it. After a certain amount of teeth gnashing I found the clip and went yay!
(::awed and pleased:: I'm very glad that Welcome Home stands up to repeated viewings and that you found it to be emotionally effective. I try to make my vids emotionally accessible, so it's awesome to hear you find it works for you on that level)
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Heh, actually I 'cheated' for most of the effects; Sean Bean was actually in most of those scenes. I don't trust myself to edit frame by frame and be able to maintain a smooth motion with any degree of accuracy. Instead I took the basic glow effect (opacity 30%, brightness/contrast +35ish, blue tint) and constrained it with a 16 pt. garbage matte around Sean Bean...then I keyframed it so that the glowy area followed him when he moved. I tried to keep the scenes out of context (when I needed it out of context) by changing the color...most of the golden sections where Bean was following Bale were originally blue, and thus hopefully unrecognizable at casual glance. (and the slight-of-hand via fast cutting helped as well =D )
In a couple areas I took the Sean Bean from the previous clip and extended it a bit, with a bit of the bottom-non-blurred portion on the layer beneath it. The non-blurred portion has a layer that's just the edge, with gaussian blur, because Premiere is stupid and doesn't let you blur the edge of your garbage matte.
the snowglobe-gunshot sequence is one of my faves...possibly because it worked with the least amount of anguish ::wryyy:: ditto with the 'lovers' sequence.
The martial arts practice was actually a later clip when I stared at the vid and realized I wasn't adding enough 'world' to it. After a certain amount of teeth gnashing I found the clip and went yay!
(::awed and pleased:: I'm very glad that Welcome Home stands up to repeated viewings and that you found it to be emotionally effective. I try to make my vids emotionally accessible, so it's awesome to hear you find it works for you on that level)