Medium shot and cross dissolve

- [Lecturer] I've made a few small tweaks,…like bolder brushstrokes in the background,…that kind of thing.…You'll see some small differences in this starting position,…but it's pretty much the same file that we left off with.…Let me make a few small changes to our opening shot…before we go on.…Let's go into that opening scene.…And once again, we have this little grid thing…that's maybe distracting us,…so we can right-click and hide that if we need to.…What I would like to do is to give this scene,…because right now it's actually transparent,…it's just a line against an empty background,…so what I want to do…is to give it just a little color card behind it.…

We have our frame outline that we set these scenes up with.…I can hold down alt option and drag that to the bottom layer…and now we have a duplicate.…If we hide the layers above,…now we can just paint in something.…You could pick a color if you'd like,…I'm just going to keep working in monochrome.…Hit the, let's see here, this is the filter,…the paint bucket tool, and we just paint that.…