Te Quiero Junto A Mi - Making Of

As Ricardo Concejal suggested me on a message, here's some insight on the making of "Te Quiero Junto A Mi". The idea is to keep sharing with you little secrets and things from each shooting that not always are noticed.

Since the pandemic started we had to shoot everything at home, but by the end of June, as conditions were more favorable to move a little, we asked our friend Gustavo here in the city if we could go and shoot the video at a little apartment he has on the second floor of his home that was usually rented as a air b'n'b.

We remembered that the pace had some nice angles and most of everything two couches that could work well on video (I had initially wanted to shoot the video for "Living On My Own" on the big sofa one year ago, but hasn't still been possible). So on the rainy afternoon of July 25th we got everything we could on an Uber and went there.

We had three nice scenes but I decided to do a little trick with the first one. I'll explain:

- The first picture is a still of the angle (framing) we had at the entrance of the apartment. Notice there's a electricity plug, the corner of a photograph on the wall, a wall on the right, and not much space around me, but it's clean, so that's a nice start. We shot a static take there using that framing. 

- On the second pic you have a 3D rendering of a room, purchased on Envato. It's a nice space but the color and some details don't match with the footage had, so I opened the first picture and this one on Photoshop and started adapting the 3D environment picture to the still I had of me on the couch.

- The third pic is a transparent PNG that is the result of adapting color and painting some details over the commercial environment pic (the 2nd). I left a hole where I should be on the couch, revealing the only part on the footage that actually has moving elements.

- The 4th pic is a composite on Final Cut (the program where I edit video). On the bottom layer sits the footage of me on the couch, and on top of it, on the second layer, the adapted pic I did (the 3rd) with the hole in the middle, so it seems that I'm on a bigger room. This take is now static, but using a digital zoom and some random shaking of the image, the virtual camera pans through it, giving the sensation that it's actually on a real room.

And there you go, a bigger virtual set that provides the video with a better chance to look fancier and more pro. Hope you enjoyed it, hugs!