More often than not, when you work on a project, be it a home movie or a short film, you’ll add clips and slowly build your film. But you may not think of altering the colors and style of your work, relying on the natural lighting conditions you were presented with on the day.
But adding filters to your visuals can help set the mood just as strongly as applying a musical score. Combine the two together and you can influence your viewers, so they feel how you want them to feel--and isn’t that the whole point of filmmaking: to give those who watch your work an emotional journey? Without it, chances are they’ll engage less with your film.
But just because you can apply effects, doesn’t mean you should. Use them only when you feel such a visual change would enhance your story. If you just add a filter for the sake of it, you run the risk of degrading your film. But if you use the Dream filter for flashback sequences, for instance, it will make it easier to discern which sections are in the past and which are current.
>> iMovie'11 version 9.0.4 or later, a project in progress and/ or clips imported into an Event, a basic grasp of the interface.
1. Revealing the Inspector
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