Greenscreen... RJSchwarz San Diego, CA
Will they be people shadows or something else? I agree that doing it in camera is probably gonna look better if possible. Use puppets if you have to, ...
There is a Youtube video bouncing around of a Robot Chicken skit of the Emporer taking a call from Vader after the destruction of the death star. They...
I think it depends upon the type of movie, the setting, and the character. It says a lot about someone who swears a lot just as it says a lot about so...
I've got the whole movie in 24p already. I filmed in 24p, but the SFX are in 30p, that's the issue. If it won't import than properly I can always d...
When you can't go verbal go physical. How could he not swear? Because he's beating and kicking the guy. Or because he broke down in tears as he's stra...
You know film, you know cameras, get a part-time job at Circuit City selling cameras. They probably have a discount. Get a job at one of your possi...
Okay, I'm in love with the Dimensionfilms link above but wondering about the practical details of importing 30p SFX into a 24p timeline in Final Cut P...
The exception with music would be if the music was really planned as part of the scene. When it's not composed but pre-existing. For example in ALMOST...
Some of the best transitions are in the movie highlander where they go up through the roof and the camera rises up into medieval Scotland. Simple plan...
A nice trick is if you have one of those scene with a fixed camera and one person showing cuts over a period of time a quick wipe can be very effectiv...
Where are you? What country/state? There are WW2 reenactors all over the place and I would suggest contacting them. They come with their own equipm...
Another consideration is if the sword blow is a stab or a chop. A chop could easily be done. Imagine two swordsmen with a pole in between them. Ont...
(1) Use a half sword and animate in the tip. That way you can control the tip disappearing into the body. (2) PUt the victim in a shirt with a green-s...
28Days later they were unable to actually empty out the city so they slowed traffic down in specific places and shot very quickly and then moved to th...