wedding project-B&W, color, and night vision green

rubadub wrote on 6/8/2004, 10:14 AM

I am putting together a little wedding piece for some friends that recently got hitched. This isn't a big project, just a couple of songs, 61 pics and some video footage.
I was thinking I'd start with one of the songs and use a combo of video and pics then use the video/audio of the vows and kiss. After this, I'm going to use the next song for another mixture of photos and video. But there is a possible issue.
The photo's are black and white, the video of the wedding ceremony is in color and the video of the reception is night vision.
What would you do to bring this altogether? Leave it as is? Make it all B&W? Something else?
My thoughts were to make it all b&w but if there is something that can be done that is a bit more creative, I'd love to hear your idea(s).

Thanks!

Comments

NaperRick wrote on 6/8/2004, 11:11 AM

You might try, at a transition from B&W photo to color video to begin video as still image and fully desaturate color to appear to be just another B&W photo then keyframe desaturation back to color while transitioning video from still to motion - kind of the "photo comes alive" effect.
Now night vision.... I let someone else comment on that :)
Rick

rubadub wrote on 6/9/2004, 6:44 AM

Hey Walleye, thanks for that idea. I will try and get that effect and see how it looks compared to all b&w images.
Yeah, that night vision is a pain. It's only redeming quality is that it is bright in most places. Of course, the brightness is green....

Thanks for the reply

wcoxe1 wrote on 6/9/2004, 8:20 AM

You can get rid of the green. It doesn't have top stay green. Turn it into B/W, as well. Or pink, if you like pink. Or perhaps Mostly B/W and at the very end, fade it at low saturation to the main color of the starting point of the main color scenes you are butting it into. Something like that.

HeeHee wrote on 6/9/2004, 10:51 AM

The thing about infrared is that it is almost like a negative. I had some footage from my brother-in-law's wedding that was in nightmode (I didn't shoot it, just edited it). It didn't look right changed to b/w, but the negative filter didn't help either. I only used this footage sparingly, but when I did, I changed it to different monchrome colors like pink, blue and purple for different scenes. I also put a feathered oval mask around it and used slo mo to make it dream like. This only works well if you drop the audio track and sync with a music score. Watch out for the pupils of eyes. They will look alien-like if the subject looks directly into the camera in infrared mode.

-Lee

wcoxe1 wrote on 6/9/2004, 11:54 AM

No big deal, every body looks a bit spacy on their wedding day, anyway.

rubadub wrote on 6/10/2004, 9:08 AM

I kinda like that idea for the nightvision footage.
I can cut down on the nightvision video by just using the dance portion of it. I can fade into it's 'dreamlike' state by taking a B&W photo of the dance and color the eyes only. Perhaps a fast zoom into the eye and a slow fade in of the dance video will suffice.
What do yous think?

HeeHee wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:19 AM

Not a bad idea. Go for it. The most you can lose is your time trying it.

BillyBoy wrote on 6/23/2004, 9:25 AM

If you don't like the greeish look of night vision get rid of it by dropping on the Vegas black and white filter. Touch up the levels and you can usually get a half way decent black and white result or just tint it to something different afterwards. If you got a lot of time to kill you can even colorize it using the color corrector secondary filter.