Have you got a screen shot handy? I have no idea what you mean.

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There's daggers in men's smiles

That looks like rain to me.

H.A.

Very hard to assess the effect from a still image mate. Looks like a digital effect though- are you sure it's not just a bad recording you've got?

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There's daggers in men's smiles

You could always try shooting some shots of a white curtains, out of focus, or something streaky and put them ontop of your regular layer at say 05%-10% so they are almost invisible.

You might try duplicating the layer itself and then playing with effects to streak it badly and offset it here and there so it's just not ontop of the actors all the time and then dropping it back at 05%-10%

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

I don't really know much about film making and all but it sort of looks like volumetric light. Here's a tutorial I found for doing volumetric lighting in a 3d modeling program: ?url? http://www.cfxweb.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=617?/url?. I don't know if this is the "effect" occurring in the movie but I thought I would post this so that people would know what you were talking about if it is.

If I remember correctly, I saw that same lighting effect in "Saving Private Ryan". After the d-day beach invasion, when the men are rounding up the German soldiers...

This effect may be because Spielberg shot a vast majority of the movie with a high shutter speed, since that means the camera doesn't take in as much light, the camera could be stretching the light that does come in or wants to come in.

So maybe for some select scenes Michael Bay intentionally shot it with a different shutter speed to achieve this effect.

I just tryed it with my camera and yes it is the shutter speed. You put the shutter speed on it's highest (mine was 1:2000) and put a bright light just above where the camera cuts of. Then it strches the light over.

It was achieved by putting the shutter out of sync to the movement!

Looks like they gave the image a very strong vertical blur and dropped it on top of the original footage with an additive blending mode.

I've heard this effect described as imitating a "shutterless camera"--a motion picture camera from which the rotating shutter has been removed, leading to lots of vertical streaking. On an actual shutterless camera, though, the effect would be much stronger and it would become almost impossible to see what was actually happening in-frame.

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