Stull: The Effects Shot, Part Deux
I'm still working on the timing for the big finale before I turn it over to VFX. I temp'd in some music -- "Devil's Got a Holda Me" by The Colour -- to help me get a good rhythm to it. The timing still isn't there 100% -- but I haven't posted anything in a while and this should be way more interesting to look at than the short clip I posted before...You'll probably want to right-click (Windows) or ctrl-click (Mac) and save the file to a local drive.
I'm debating whether to have a bit of a continuity fudge and have the Sheriff walk by first. That's how it was originally scripted. In that case, he'd walk in, the bottles would fly up, he'd stop and the door would ooze down, then the high schoolers would start walking in.
I have a few more 'plates' of breaking bottles but because of a lot of factors, including the instability of the circa 1850 wall, I don't have as many or high up ones as I would like. Maybe my effects guy can do some magic, we'll see.
UPDATE 6/16/07: A third version was close enough I've sent it to my effects wizard. (LINK REMOVED to save space on my ftp 12/2008. You'll just have to see the movie.)
posted by J. Ott @ 6/13/2007 07:57:00 AM
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not sure how the rest of the film is shot so this might be pointless to bring up. but what usually helps "sell" effect shots, especially ones that include blue/greenscreen is if you do a final fake-handheld effect at the very end, because the subliminal thing of "oh its handheld so its not an effect" blabla.. rodriguez does it in like every shot ever and it really works. i did it on the lacma commercial when they fly up the stairs on the vespa, i think it helped a bit. i can show you how to do this its pretty simple but i guess if your doing a special effects house thing they can probably do it for you. you should at least try both ways and see what you like..
and yeah i know this shot is static i just mean an effect that makes it look like its handheld, but the camera operator is trying to hold it as still as possible, that kinda thing....
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