Pro Moviemaker Autumn 2018

USING STOCK

IMAGES Making use of stock footage for expensive sequences will enable you to spend more budget on the meat of your production.

thing that has changed in recent times is the idea that you’re stuck with the look of the footage that you might buy in. These days agencies specialise not just in a comprehensive variety of shooting styles, but they also supply sophisticated editing tools that can bring your purchased clips closer to your personal vision. RocketStock by Shutterstock is the home of a number of video packs that cost between $79 and $199, and these enable a number of different effects to be added to footage. Abyss, for example, delivers 169 different wave, splash and ripple effects, while Submerge comes with 130 water and rain effects. And so it goes on: Lucent Ultra comes with 260 vivid lens flares in 4K, and Lucent Warm provides 140 more. Burn has 200-plus fire effects, Collapse comes with 80 debris effects, Ricochet 450-plus muzzle flash and gun smoke effects, and Mojave 100 dust effects. There’s even a pack called Tidal that delivers 100 different transitions, so it’s an easy entry point into editing that can give the

have what you want. And by using stock to provide some of the more expensive and time-consuming sequences you’ll be able to put your budget towards other things, such as maybe another day with your actors.” Impressive sequences In an age when production values are continually rising while the pressure on budgets is unrelenting, stock is one way of adding impressive sequences to your film that would otherwise be unachievable. However, you need to have a clear idea from the outset about how you plan to use stock and the grade you’re using for the rest of the footage. One

“Think about whether you’re

going tomake use of stock options from the very start”

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AUTUMN 2018 PRO MOVIEMAKER

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