1. Green Screen
Split Screen
Using Key Frames
Colour Manipulation and Effects
FINAL CUT MASTER CLASSES

2. TECHNIQUES EXPLAINED
• Green screen technology is the basis of the effects seen in
everything from the latest Hollywood blockbusters to the weather
forecast. The idea is simple. If you shoot a video with a single
coloured backdrop (blue or green is often used) ‘Chroma Key’
allows you to make that colour transparent - replacing it with any
other video clip, graphic or still image.
• Split Screen – having more that one image on the screen at the
same time. It can be different images with different framing, the
same image copied and made to look like a checkerboard, the
same figure reproduced in the same background, layering one
image on top of another
• Keyframing allows you to alter the appearance of the video by
adding special effects part way through so they fade up or down,
make the frame/shot to be bigger or smaller, to move from side
to side or even move it across the screen
• Colour manipulation and effects allows you do more that just
make a clip black and white, brighter or darker. You have total

3. PAST STUDENT WORK – WHAT
TECHNIQUES CAN YOU SPOT?
• Turning Day – Get Up
• Mumford and Son – The Cave
• Vampire Weekend – A Punk (Student
Resources)
• Regina Spektor – Us (Student Resources)
• Rust Root – Send me on my way
• Kate Perry – I kissed a girl
• Marina and the Diamonds – Radioactive

4. OTHER EXAMPLES OF PAST WORK TO
WATCH IN YOUR OWN TIME.
• Lou Bega – Mambo Number 5
• Bullet for My Valentine – Dignity
• Madness – The Sun and The Rain
• The Summer Set – Punch Drunk Love
• The XX – Islands
• Kanye West – Street Lights
• Six Sixty – Crash
• And don’t forget there are lots on the
blog

5. GROUPS
Group One
James
Emily
Joe
Harmony
Group Two
George
Eddie
Jessika
Charlie
Group Three
Alex
Sarah
Calum
Amy
Group Four
Jess M
Molly
Jack

6. TASK – TO CREATE ‘SCREEN CASTS’ THAT
DEMONSTRATE HOW TO DO YOUR FINAL
CUT SKILL
1. In your groups plan what skills you are going to demonstrate
2. Plan what footage you need
3. Film that footage as a group
4. Learn how to do your skill (using youtube tutorials, expertise of
group members , online manuals etc)
5. Script your screencast
6. Make your screencast using Quicktime or Final Cut (I will show
you how to do this)
7. If necessary edit your screencast and create a file for the
student recourses folder. Good chance to play with the new
version of Final Cut