Tilt-shift vidding WIP
Of the many things that trouble me about Dollhouse, the most bothersome at the moment is the fact that they used the tilt-shift miniature effect before I could manage to use it in a vid. Or manage to finish any vid at all. I'm sure that's beside the point.
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I haven't seen your Darren vidlet yet! It's been in my "must watch" folder but I haven't gotten to it. *excited*
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Hmm. I don't suppose you'd be willing to beta my Richard vid for me? My previous vid beta-viewer is busy being pregnant.
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I never saw the last two episodes of the series, and now I want to go back and watch it all from the beginning.
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Upon first viewing, I was a little "huh?" I mean, I thought the miniatures looked cool and all, and moderately realistic, but they just had such an incredibly fake "I'm a miniature!" look about them. I wondered if it was some sort of new fad where people re-shoot movies entirely with miniatures.
And then I went away for a few hours and came back and decided it might behoove me to Google this tilt-shift thing ... expecting it was a kind of camera lens or maybe even a motion-rig for miniatures photography. And then the clue hits and I realize that there were no miniatures! You had manipulated the footage!! And done it so well that I really and truly had no idea!!! I mean, I knew it had been manipulated, I just figured it was a real miniature with a matted in moving bit ... the grass and trees especially looked perfectly fake! And now that I've watched your clips two more times I'm still in awe. Wow!
Thank you for once again finding the coolest toys and sharing them!
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This is completely hilarious to me because your response was exactly my response to your post when I realized, "Oh! REAL DILDOS!!!" :D
There are actual lenses, but faking it with Photoshop (or Premiere in this case) is all the rage with the kids these days. I've always loved dollhouses, and my idea here is for a meta vid about what we do in fandom, how these are our toys, etc. And I'll probably never finish the vid, but doing this was fun.
Thank you so much! I'm tickled that they looked real to you. Um, I mean fake. Real fake.
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THIS. and Ponies that chew up some of your clips and poop on others. Contrary buggers.
The pumpkins look like sweeties. There's something very edible about these, in general. The stadium looks great - I think the long view really gives the effect something to work with, same as the Hagrid's hut.
Track mattes? *joins ignorance conga*
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For the other three clips, the subject doesn't move around a lot, so I used stationary image mattes. (Four layers, bottom to top: original clip (slightly sharpened actually), slightly blurred clip with a small hole matted out so the underneath layer can show through, blurred-more clip with a bigger hole matted out, and blurred-more-more clip with a huge hole matted out.) But then for the GoF scene, the stadium moves around all over the frame, so I had to use moving mattes and I didn't get the mattes to follow the stadium precisely. Like for the second half of the clip the flags ought to be the same distance from the camera as the base, but they're mostly blurry. But I did learn how to use mattes and keyframes and that is of the yay!
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So THAT'S how it works. Yay ingleed! *offers pony a carrot*
I came across Keith Loutit's work today, in pleasingly on topic must-tell-you way. I have a feeling I've linked you him before; there can't be that many tilt-shift films of monster trucks, but I'm sure it was different. Hmm. Anyway! He's done a kickass one of the Sydney Mardi Gras.
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This is sparkly.
*puts chin in hands and watches you press buttons and curse.
Cooooool...
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They have glitter, these ponies. Glitter and switchblades.
I'm not gonna whine about my GHOSTFACERSSKULL problems to some GHOSTFACERSSKULL pony. I'm gonna do my GHOSTFACERSSKULL job.
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You're a good soldier, gnat.
*squinches your cheeks and waits for your next amazing feat*
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You should still use it, a technique is a technique; I'm pretty excited about it myself though I don't think I'd use it. I'd love to see an spn vid with it though :)
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It's so hard to find usable shots! In SPN, I could only think of this car-and-cows shot, and the scene in Simon Said where the camera is from Dean's POV, looking at Andy and Ansem and Tracy on the dam.
Have you seen this guy? Pretty! I think he uses an actual lens, though.
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There's fewer landscape shots now, you're right...but I think there is enough of them to work into a vid, not necessarily be the whole focus of the video. I can think of Dean going to the empty gas station, uhm, Sam and Dean in the hayfield along the road. I don't know if they would work in the tiltshift range, but worth a try. Maybe you could scan screencap sites to get a list?
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