Help, I need urgent advice.

rayw

• Oct 24, 2011

• #2

Can you assemble the two actors in an available location, recreate similar ambient lighting or wait for the similar time of day+environmental conditions, then re-shoot overhead looking down, close-up, so that the overall environment isn't in the essential cut?

Also, consider re-creating the same and just use an extreme close-up on the point of impact itself with wide open aperture and small as possible DOF, again to minimize the environment's impact on the image.

 

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GuerrillaAngel

• Oct 24, 2011

• #3

What he said.

 

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finderskeepers

• Oct 26, 2011

• #4

I had the same "can't come back" to the location challenge. Re-writing the scene to take place somewhere else worked best. Might not work for you, but always worth considering.
Best of luck.

 

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Gonzo_Entertainment

• Oct 26, 2011

• #5

In 109 they is a sequence where

we see an object on a table.
We see a guy reach down out of frame.
We see a closeup as the object moves up through frame in his hand in front of his shirt
We see closeup as he holds the object up by his face.

1, 2, and 4 were shot in a motel room location.
3 was shot in my living room 10 days later when we realized we needed it to get the sequence to edit together right.

If I didn't tell you, you would never know.

Movie magic! figure out something that works for your situation.

 

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Josiah

• Oct 27, 2011

• #6

Gonzo_Entertainment said:

In 109 they is a sequence where

we see an object on a table.
We see a guy reach down out of frame.
We see a closeup as the object moves up through frame in his hand in front of his shirt
We see closeup as he holds the object up by his face.

1, 2, and 4 were shot in a motel room location.
3 was shot in my living room 10 days later when we realized we needed it to get the sequence to edit together right.

If I didn't tell you, you would never know.

Movie magic! figure out something that works for your situation.

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Situations like that are one of the fantastic things about filmmaking. Same with my movie. One of my actors couldn't make it on set one day and we needed a shot of him walking past the camera, then the villain peeking from behind a tree. Thankfully his character is wearing a hood. So we threw the hood onto one of my other actors and he did the shot for us. You'd never be able to tell unless I told you.

 

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