Inv Blog Post 10/17

• Thursday - Started working on script

• Friday - Continued to work on script 

Cinematic Black Lines/Bars:

What Is It?

    Cinematic Black Bars is defined in its name. Two black bars, one on the top, and one on the bottom to enhance the image or shot of the film to give it a "Hollywood" cinematic feeling, like in the movies, and or to focus on something specific.

The Result:

    Although an easy screen effect to add, it was a lot more challenging to find how to properly execute it into the shot/film. I couldn't decided whether to do a fade in/out with the opacity, or pan the bars vertically or horizontally. It's definitely meant for scenery changes or shot changes so it can just appear or not appear, or maybe used for a time-lapse. I will definitely use this technique in my videos for that cinematic feel. It's used greatly amongst not just Film Makers, but Youtubers, Tik Tokers, pretty much any media across the world.

                                                                The Process:

1.  Create a New Adjustment Layer
2. Drag onto timeline over the selected footage you want to apply it to
3. Search up "Crop" in the effects panel
4. Apply the "Crop" effect onto the Adjustment Layer in the timeline
5. In the effect control panel click on the "Crop" effect (make sure ADJ Layer is selected) and click the top value and change it to 12% (do the same for the bottom value).
6. (To fade in and out *learned from personal experience*) Click on the "Opacity" effect and create a point in the very beginning of the ADJ layer.
7. Make sure it is on 0%
8. Go 5 frames ahead and create another keyframe and adjust the "Opacity" effect to 100%
9. Repeat from the last 5 frames of the ADJ layer just flipped.