Creating an awesome special fx comic book makeup look for the music video Urban Night: Sounds. Looked up some ideas online and then decided to go with an exaggerated makeup look. Watch the finished video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc58gcJ5atE Sabrina Pena Young http://sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com/ I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) Related articles 25 Incredible Ways to Dress as Harley Quinn For Halloween Need Halloween Inspo? These Sexy (And Spooky!) Halloween Makeup Looks Are Everything Excitement for Autumn Halloween Makeup Idea 2016 - Girlypictorials Fetching Halloween Makeup Ideas for Girls to wear INTERVIEW: Me, Myself, and I: The Music of S. Peña Young, Contemporary Composer Free Sheet Music Download: Classical Music Flute Solo Airborn Sand by Composer Sabrina Pena Young Global Digital Music Market with Focus on Live Streaming - USA & Germany Industry Analysis, Growth, Trends ...

30 CHEAP SPECIAL FX HINTS 1. Make your own home camera filters using a plastic sandwich bag filled with different liquids or gels. 2. By using non-revealing camera angles and different costumes and wigs, you can double or triple your cast for non-essential roles. 3. Never underestimate the power of a miniature set with good lighting. 4. Sound can make or break your film. If you can't afford good sound, dub it in later. 5. A cheap mic Pop Filter can be made with a circle of wire and pantyhose. 6. Use perspective to your advantage...can't afford a huge set...? Use camera placement to trick the eye. 7. Create those swirly filters in-camera by shooting through a clear container full of water (just watch for electrical cables). 8. Make a boiling planet by taking an overhead shot of scrambled eggs in a frying pan dyed with food coloring. 9. Hangers work great for prosthetics that don't need much mobility. 10. Buy blankets with different patterns (ex. waves or sand), as a cheap la...

Like many contemporary composers, I am fascinated with the correlation between music and the visual arts. The cross-pollination of the arts has given birth to many great compositions and visual works. Dr. Kristine H. Burns (see link in Artist Links) at Florida International University has mastered an animation style utilizing Final Cut Pro's Video Generator features. She used it for her amazing video piece, Copper Islands. Final Cut Pro has a variety of Video Generators available. You can create a simple color matte, text, shapes, bars, noise, etc. For electroacoustic composers, think of these as the basic sine, triangle, and square waves (and noise, of course) that a composer manipulates electronically through sound synthesis. These are building blocks. You need to be familiar with the KEY FRAME feature available in Final Cut Pro. By setting KEY FRAMES you can alter an effect over time. Start with something basic, say a basic Color Matte with a Mask Shape (ex. a circle) over it. N...

For my current video piece, I am using Adobe Imageready to edit each frame individually. The original material consists of video and animated imgery in Bryce (pretty user-friendly 3D animation software). Using the ACTION palette in Adobe Imageready, I can create effects used in Photoshop, but not common in video editing software such as Final Cut Pro. Here is a clip, slightly morphed: I used a combination of the Watercolor effect, the Plastic Wrap effect, and some changes in color and contrast to change something like this: To something like this: One frame at a time. The ACTIONS palette allows you to set up your effects and assign them to a single key, like F7. Then it is a matter of selecting each frame and clicking F7. I wish there was a way to apply these effects to the entire layer palette, but it seems to work only with styles (like shadows, embossing, etc.). I am composing the tracks using live recording, my Malletkat, Garageband, Finale, and Apple's built-in voices. Should...