Investigating Colour Filters

A technique that we would really like to use in our music video is the use of colour filters, particularly towards the end of our video. We feel that using bright colour filters will reveal the playful and party side of our music video and feel that the different colours could represent different emotions e.g. yellow could symbolise happiness. We have studied some music videos and looked at the way they have incorporated the filters in effectivley.

FILTER – WHAT DO YOU SAY

We feel that the constant pink filter adds to the continuity of the video. We can see how the filter gives a particular effect to the video. For example, this filter gives the video a slightly edgy and rocky feel. We hope that our filters will put across a particular emotion, mainly a playful sense of happiness.

LITTLE MIX – MOVE

Here is a more recent music video that uses colour filters but in a more subtle way. The filter usually focuses on a particular aspect such as the outline of the artists hair as opposed to the whole shot being filtered. Again, this gives a contemporary and edgy feel as it draws the audience’s attention to particular features such as the artist’s face. We hope to make our filters quite subtle and only use them in particular places where we feel it is necessary such as the final chorus and the friends are happy and having fun together and feel a colour filter can help accentuate this.

USING FINAL CUT TO IMPLEMENT COLOUR FILTERS

We have researched into how we can work colour filters within final cut and found these controls which can create different colour filters:

Here is the link to a website that explains to us how we can do colour filters for our video within final cut. This will be so beneficial to us when editing as we can quickly refer back and remind ourseleves of how to add filters. I personally feel we will use bright colour filters such as blue, red, yellow and green. We intend to experiment with the filters and gain feedback on how effective they are.

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