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Documentary Editing Tips
Episode 1 - Immersive Scenes
For constructing Immersive Scenes. Have these elements in mine
- The Subject
- The Foreground
- The Background
- The Floor!
To achieve that feel, get an image (Write “top down view” in the prompts when generating, so you’re sure it’s a floor)
Bring it to your comp and rotate it on the x-axis by 90 degrees.
Make the y-position the value of your composition height
In this case, it’s a 1080 x 1920 composition, so that’s 1920
Set the anchor points of every of your element in your scene to the bottommost part of the element, e.g
Then set the position to y-position the same value (in this case, 1920)
Then thats’s it!
You can scale, move in the x-axis, move in the y-axis, and it stays and sticks to the floor
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