Playing with special effects for a dream sequence

In the last few days I came with a idea for a scene that would need to be a short recorded piece and then have some special effects added to it.

I thought that either Eric or Duncan would have a dream sequence where they see Amber get engulfed by flame but need to find a way of adding fire effects to video.

First I searched for how to do this on iMovie and found the video New iMovie Action Effects on Youtube which can be found if you follow the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtPFgM21gFo

This video taught me that would need to find pre-keyed effects to add them to a video without any background. So I searched for Pre-keyed fire effects on Youtube and found a video i thought would work. It did not as the fire had a black box around it.

So I looked online so a website that had pre keyed fire effects i could download for free and found the website footagecrate.com. After looking on the site for several minutes I found what I was looking for. I downloaded one file and tried putting it in a small clip I had imported before.

The final result is below.

Or if the video doesn't work click the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXDl1jdvQw

Through doing this short video I realised that I could easily add the effects I wanted, but would need to work out where there would be on the screen and how the actors should react to them when they happen.