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Re: suck on this, mother_loopers



Couldn't load the video (no flash around here, chrome usually
provides, but not this time), but I'm guessing you used a matte box.
Sylvain


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:12 PM, mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> OK on this video technique subject.. how about THIS?
>
> http://www.markfrancombe.com/wordpress/?p=1784
>
> please consider, no computers used in the making of this film... there a
> prize for the one who guesses the technique...
>
> Defiantly looping here...
>
>
> Mark
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> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:18 AM, mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> a simple split screen used here i think... but for the geeks, theres
>> also a difference key. take a shot of the background ( an empty slate)
>> and when you superimpose you can subtract the elements In common.
>>
>> Sent from my (advertisement removed)
>>
>> On 23 Nov 2011, at 21:28, Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > You could blue (green) screen this, but then you have all the lighting
>> > issues associated with the techniques (getting the background lighting
>> > to match with the composed elements) and likely some scaling issues
>> > (to say nothing of matching camera angles... I'm just not good enough
>> > to pull this off and be happy with the results.)
>> > It's probably easier to keep each "performer" in his own corner of the
>> > room and film everything with a fixed camera, running through the song
>> > all the way through for each performers, making sure to get adequately
>> > long footage with no one in the shot. Repeat for each camera angle.
>> > Then, in a software like adobe after effects, you layer each take on
>> > top of each other (the empty room on the bottom) and make a
>> > subtractive mask around the performers. If one performer is moving
>> > "behind" another, you'll have to animate the mask to obscure part of
>> > that performer.
>> > First time I saw something like this was in a Phil Collins video
>> > (anyone remember the song?).
>> > Sylvain
>> >
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