This is a really newbish question...
How come in movies.. when the camera's looking at the mirror, there is no reflection? And also when there are two cameras focusing on the same scene, you don't see the other cameras? How is that even possible?
Most commonly the mirror is slightly angled so that the camera is just out of view. If you notice an actor in the mirror, in order to see their face you have to be angled slightly or else you'd only see the back of their head which isn't all that cinematic and might be disgusting depending upon the head.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
There are a few instances when it is impossible to keep the camera out of the angle of reflection for a mirror (if it's a wide-angle mirror, or a reflective prop or something), in which case some poor soul has to go back and paint the camera out of the reflection frame-by-frame.
Worst job ever!
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