Colourful Banana in black and white background

Ok we've discovered how to actually do this and although it doesn't require the mose sophisticated knowledge on the edit suite, it is painstakingly long - hours and hours and hours long.

What you have to do is layer a colourful version of the shot ontop of a black and white version of it. At this point the whole thing will be in colour as the top layer is the colour layer. Now, you have to select the colour layer and add the effect 'garbage' to it. Garbage is a tool that allows you to crop a certain part of an image using either 4 points, 8 points or 16 points (16 points is for something very detailed and complicated and 4 point is for something like a window.

The worst is to come. You have to scroll through each individual frame of every shot you want to have colour and black and white in and edit them. So on the colour version of the video, whenever the banana is in the screen, you have to move the points to fit around him, effectivly cutting him out of the colour image. This way the colour image dissappears and you should only be left with the banana. But the trick is, the black and white video is underneath so the banana remains in colour and you've erased everything else colourful and are left with the black and white image.

This sound easy enough, but when you are on your 30th frame in a 4 second long piece of footage you could quite easily kill someone. We have to do this for all of the frames where the banana is in the burnt down house and unfortunatly he is in the house for about 30 seconds of footage. What is worse is that, because the banana is quite a pointy object you need to be detailed with your cropping which mean we have to use the 16 point garbage tool. Even worse, the banana is moving at high speed so every frame he has completely changed position and you need to move every point to fit with his body shape.

The hardest thing however is when the banana runs past a plank of wood. You don't want to wood to be in colour so you have to do an additional garbage for the side behind the wood and another one for the side of him infront of the wood.

HOW MADDENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comic Value - The Crucible Moment

Thinking about our video, we thought that it would be really good if we had a crucible moment, something that the audience will remember and what to watch over and over again. When we came up with the idea of a man in a banana costume walking by the two gorillas after they'd fallen in love and the male gorilla can't resist the temptation of chasing the banana.

Although this was said jokingly, we didn't actually believe we could get it done. However, when browsing google i came across and AWSOME banana costume which we may very well purchase.

Banana Costume

Exclusive Web Price £32.99

This banana costume is made from bright yellow poly foam, shown here with models own black top and trousers. This is a one size fits most costume

http://www.fancydress.com/shop/product-view/118669