MATTE

The close up shot used of the poppy in the corn field during the short music video around (0.36) we wanted to keep with the change of the colour contrast but keep the red colour of the poppy as it would stand out and be eye catching towards the audience. We used an effect called Matte which allowed us to select the image and basically cut or trace out the outside of the poppy's petals allowing us to keep the red colour. We had to drag the points from the corners of the box and put them on each point or curve of the poppy. We really liked this effect and have decided it will be perfect and very effective to use in our final project and it adds a unique edge to certain objects which will then hopefully be symbolic in our video, and something an audience will be able to remember when the video is over. However when watching the short music video you can see some of the background colour slighty as when we filmed the poppy shot there was wind, which unfortunalty meant we were not able to use the Matte technique to it's full standards, but we now know when using this techinque in the future for our final project we have to make sure the object we are focussing on is not moving so we are then able to drag the points perfectly over the footage and the movement it does so we don't have this difficulty again.