Holographic Video
For one of the final projects of this year, we created a "Holographic Video," similar to the Star Wars scene where R2D2 projects a hologram of Princess Leia.
To begin, I used a stock video of a salesperson, "Susie," (Set an in and out point) and cut her out of the clip, careful to get every body part throughout the episode. Then I removed her green background in order to simply work with the person. I did this using "Keylight," selecting the same color green and therefore removing it from the clip. Finally, I choked out her edges in order to take out any remaining background, and blurred her clip to make it slightly fuzzy.
Then I started to add desired effects such as grey solids (in order to create faded bars going up and down through the footage) and noise to create a "sparse" connection. I also dealt with color of the footage (changing it to blue) and opacity levels in order to create a more realistic scenario to what happened in Star Wars.
In order to animate the gray bars, I went frame by frame for the first three, setting an opacity pattern. Then, I was able to duplicate the effect throughout the entire footage. This made the bars 'flicker.'
Of course, Susie wasn't the clip I wanted, so to customize I filmed myself saying an intro to introduce my Wix Site. I chose to hold a lightsaber and include a quote from Yoda to keep with the Star Wars Theme.
All I needed to do at that point was replace the Susie footage with my own, the effects were already in place! To create an added 'old projector' type feel, I created another solid and cut it out around the projection. Then I set the opacity levels to turn on and off to create that classic flickering. The video was finished in Premiere with the original audio, and the Star Wars Cantina Song.
The original composition that was duplicated three times to handle opacity and other edits and then replaced with personal footage.
Starting the 'grainy' projection customization complete with lens flare.