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Shutter Island Paper Scene
I’m doing a movie that has a girl in a dream-like hallucination. She is seeing inanimate objects in her room moving about. In one scene, paper flies off her desk and floats around the room. How do I get paper to fall down slowly and erraticly similar to the concentration camp scene in Shutter Island? I would like to see the paper falling like snow flakes. What is the simplest and most efficient way to do this?
Thanks for the help in advance.
Best,
-joe -
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[Joseph Fatheree]“What is the simplest and most efficient way to do this?”
Grab a bunch of paper and drop it from above.
I would suggest you would probably want to shoot at a somewhat higher frame rate than you plan to deliver it.
You’ll have to experiment on weight/thickness of your paper stock.– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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If all of the above does not suit you, you can try Free Form to create the animation in AE. Use a match moving soft to track the camera move and export that to AE ( Boujou, Syntheyes or Vodoo- I think this one is free). Use Free Form to distort layers of newspaper images and animate them falling. Multiple passes needed.
Or shoot some paper falling with a high speed camera….Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
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