The Pleasantville effect

The use of color can have a strong impact on your audience. Some films such as Schindler's List and Pleasantville use the impact of color in stylistic ways. The effect is focused on having only one color within the image while everything else becomes desaturated. As in our previous keying recipes, to accomplish this we'll need to make a selection in our image based on color. By using masks and filters, we'll create one selection for everything we want to turn black and white, and another for the colors we want to keep.

Getting ready

Locate a video clip on your computer, preferably one with a strong vivid/saturated color you want to keep and to which you want to draw the viewer's attention. Launch Motion and create a new project based on your clip settings. Make sure your playhead is at the beginning of the project. Go to the File Browser and find your footage. Click the Import button to bring the file into your project

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