VHS After Effects

To film what would like the archive footage in the music video (the narrative section) we started filming on Louis VHS camera as this looked the most authentic. However, the VHS camera we were using is quite old and we thought it would be sensible to have a backup in the event of anything going wrong. So, whilst filming Louis and Gina we used both the VHS camera and the HD camcorder.


We were aware that this we look very different so we intended to edit the footage in after effects to recapture any authenticity that was lost. This was something we all had to look into doing as a group, and so we looked through several YouTube tutorials on how to convert footage and tested this on some VHS footage we had got from a shoot.

Tutorials

Initially, we looked to this tutorial for guidance. This was made of the persons own pre-set package. This package did have a variety of tweakable sliders which we could use to achieve our desired look. We tried some of these effects on our footage but wanted to experiment further to see what else it could possibly look like, so we watched the following tutorial:

This tutorial was very complicated as it was just a list of instructions without any actual video as an example. Also, this tutorial didn't use any sliders and was entirely based on trial and error so the footage turned out very different.

We collated all versions of edited VHS footage to compare it all, especially against the original VHS footage because we were growing keener on the idea of editing HD footage.
However, after viewing all the footage next to each other in a sequence, we realised we actually preferred the authentic VHS footage and would use what we learnt about creating 'fake' VHS footage on after effects as a back-up.