Post production- Editing - VHS effect

To follow the theme of my video, I wanted to make the clips look like old footage. The footage I have edited here, is being edited to look like it was filmed on a VHS camera.  The idea behind this is that the male had been video recording her.  This should be a clip representing the females vulnerability and how controling the man is; he is making her do what he wants.  Below are the steps I went through to make the video look like this. I also did this with another clip to show the footage of the girl being video recorded, whereas this is the footage. I learnt all this through Youtube videos.



The first step I took is finding a screen of scratched old footage to overlay on the footage and make it look dated, having the old film effect. I copied the link of this video and used a youtube converting site to convert the video into an mp4 so that I could then downloaded it. Doing this, I imported it into premiere pro.

Once the clip was imported into Premiere Pro, I created an adjustment layer above the clip itself.  This was done by adding a new folder to my library of other clips called adjustment layer. I made the adjustment layer so that the effect wouldn't change the original clip and only the layer.  This would mean that if the effect didn't come out the way I wanted it to, I could just delete the layer and the clip wouldn't be effected.

Once this was downloaded, I pulled the video over the clip, into the adjustment  layer.  The size of the video was tiny in comparison to my shot.  Therefore, I changed the scale and positioning of the video so that it fit the shot. After this was done   Using a colour key , I removed the black colouring from the screen, so that only the effect was visible.  I also turned down the opacity so that it was more genuine. This made the footage look scratched.


After cutting the scratched effect down to size, I then had to remove the sound from the video.  This was so that there was no sound overlapping the music.  I did this by right clicking on the clip, and then choosing the setting 'unlink'.  This detached the sound from the actual clip so that you could move them individually, without the other being effected.  I then deleted the sound from the clip.


Now the footage had a scratched effect, it was now time to edit the appearance of it so that it looked old; like a VHS. The first effect which I looked into was color balance.  This helped be to create the washed out effect.  I then used a blur tool so that it had a blurred effect running through the clip; like it was rippling.

Once I had sorted the blurring effect as well as the color balance, I then went into a brightness and contrast.  I changed it so that the contrast was very high and then controlled the brightness so that it wasn't as bold.







Once i had finished creating the VHS effect, I saved it as an effect so that I could use it again.  This meant that I wouldn't have to redo all of the steps I have done to create the effect on this clip and I will just have to apply one effect to make it look the same.

This was the end result of the effect of the clip.