This video is brought to you
by LG UltraWide. Hey guys, it's Jordy here
for cinecom.net and welcome to Copy Cat Friday. This is a series where we find
a creative way to recreate a certain film effect. And today we'll recreate
this effect right here, which comes from the season II
trailer of 13 Reasons Why. So, let's get into it! [Cinecom's intro music] I haven't personally seen
13 Reasons Why, but this effect was highly
requested by you guys, which is why we're coping
this effect today. Now, the series is about suicide
and before we start I do have to mention that
any form of depression or suicidal thoughts is
a very serious matter, definitely in today’s Society. I'm not a specialist, but I do believe
that the best thing to do is talk, whether you or a friend
is in such a situation. But let’s focus on
the effect right now, which you can see very well
executed in their season 2 trailer. The way they've done goes a lot
further than we're going to do, but that's because I wanna keep it
as entry level as possible, because I know a lot of you
guys are new to After Effects. But before we jump there,
we first have to design our sets. -So, we have a bunch of very old
pictures and frames right here, this right here is actually
my mother, and over here this
is my sister! Look how cute she is! So, we're going to hang these
frames right here to the wall, because we are going to need
a lot of texture in the background, and you'll see later in this
tutorial, why that is. So, let's hang them
to the wall. [Hard rock music] Yannick! You can't put a brand-new
monitor in a mid-century scene! -But she's so pretty! [Music fades back in] More about that brand new
LG monitor later on, first let's film. We shot everything
on a gimbal, as that was the easiest way
to get a smooth tracking shot. But, of course, you
don't have to. You can perfectly walk
with your camera as well. Yannick is standing
as still as he can and that way it seems like the camera
is floating in a still picture. Kinda like the mannequin challenge. And as you can see there're
no polaroid films in the air, they are all added in post. But we do wanna capture
those polaroids. So we're taking some separate
pictures of a a real polaroid and the reason I'm doing this
and not going for a stock photo is that I retain the
same lighting and thus the blending
will go a lot better. And if you really wanna
make it blend well, take some pictures
in different angles. And that's the only thing
that we have to shoot. So let's now design
the second set. [Music level increases] -No, Yannick! That makes absolutely no sense
in this scene right here! Shooting the second scene
goes exactly the same. Only here I'm paying attention
to the way I start moving my camera. If I ended my first shot by
moving to the right, I will also start moving
to the right now. And ideally you also wanna start
somehow at the same speed. -And... Cut! Let's go to the editing room! Since Yannick does most of
the editing at Cinecom, he gets the brand new
LG Ultra wide monitor that was send to us. It has an amazing Quad HD
IPS curved display, with over 99% coverage
of the sRGB spectrum, making it perfectly suitable for
professional video editing. A super nice design and having
an ultra-wide single display makes it so much more user-friendly
to work in any creative program. And because it's
a single display, Yannick's computer has
a few extra ports available so that he can keep using his old
monitor for media management. But to find out more, make sure to hit
the first link in the description below. So, inside Adobe After Effects the first thing you can already do is bring
your shot into a new composition. And we wanna track the camera
movement that I've done. So I'll select my clip and head
over to the Tracker window. And in here you can just hit
the Track Camera button. After Effects will now
analyze your movement and when it's ready you'll see
a bunch of a tracking data appearing on your clip. Now you wanna head over
to the effect controls and under the Camera Tracker effect,
click on the Create Camera button. And this will add a virtual camera
to your composition, which should have the same
movement as you made your shot. And you can check that by setting
your View Mode in your output panel to "four view". You can now see a top
and side view of that virtual camera
and its path. And this is already
a very big thing. We can now go ahead and add
any element in that virtual space. So right here I have that
photo of the polaroid, which I'm going to add
into a new composition. Then I wanna take the
Rectangle Mask tool on top and draw a mask where
the current picture is in. Then head over to your
layer, open it up, click Mask and
select Inverted. You can also now feather
the mask a tiny bit. This leaves us with
a whole in the polaroid, so I'm going to create a black solid
and place it underneath the Polaroid. Now some of these polaroids
are just black, some have a picture inside and... one of them will contain the
video to our next scene. If you wanna have some different
kind of pictures over your scene, then you have to select that
composition in the Project panel and hit control or command+D
to duplicate it. In that duplication you can then
add something else in there. So let’s now bring this into
our main composition. Simply drag the entire composition
of the polaroid to your timeline and you wanna enable 3D
for that layer. If you can't find that option,
then right-click in your columns and enable switches. You can now check the 3D
for that layer. If you select that clip
in the output panel, you can now also move that
to a different position. And I would always suggest
to pull on the axis lines. You have an X, Y and a Z axis to move
the polaroid around in that space. You can look at your different views to see
where that polaroid is positioned. If you need to rotate it, I would suggest
doing that from the layer properties. You can do so now by selecting it and
hitting the R key on your keyboard. And then you can rotate it
around any axis. Then just continue adding other
polaroid compositions or the same one to your
current scene. Give them a position and
fill up your shot. [Toilet ambience sounds] Then comes the transition. This is going to be the polaroid
with the next scene inside. And you wanna align it
in your 3D space so that the camera
covers it up. Next I create a new
composition and... ...you can name this Final Result
or something, because in here... ...we'll bring all the compositions
of each separate scene. And the first scene
goes on top. And the second one
underneath. And I then select
the upper comp, hit T on my keyboard to
open up the opacity and decrease it to
around 50%. And this way I can see through and
align the composition underneath so that the transition
is seamless. Once you got it in place, you can
set the opacity back to 100%. Finally we're going to add a little
bump into the second scene. From the Effects library I drag the Turbulent Displace
effect to the second comp. In here I wanna create a keyframe
in the beginning for the amount and evolution. Then go a little further in time
and change the amount to 0 and the evolution to 360°, or one rotation. Finally, right-click on the last
keyframe of the evolution and choose ease in. With that keyframe selected I then
click on the Graph View on top which allows me to change
the animation curve. The higher the curve, the faster
the animation goes. So by pulling it to the left, the animation will go super fast in
the beginning and slowly fade out. And this is what creates that hard
bump during the transition. There's one last thing I wanna do and
that is in the composition of the polaroid where we have this
second scene in. The video is too clear. Just like in the trailer, I'd like
to create a texture over it. And you can find any texture
on the internet. Just place one on top
of your clip and change its blending
mode to Overlay. On the end I then animate the opacity
so that the texture fades out. Then add your favorite
color correction to it which you can also do inside Adobe
Premiere Pro and enjoy the results. [Music kicks back in] Thank you guys so much
for watching again, thank you LG for the support and to find out more about
Yannick's new girlfriend you can click the first link
in the description below. But, before you do so... ...stay creative! -So, Yannick is trav...! ...he traveled back to the future! -So, Yannick he is a trav... ...he traveled back to the past,
you can tell... Wow! -Ha, ha, ha! But, what he did forgot
was his desktop computer! Ha, ha, Yannick! -Joke's on me.
