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Pleasantville Technique
I am going to be undertaking a project within the next couple of weeks where we are using the pleasantville technique in changing from black and white to color. I’ve got a few ideas with lumakeying, masking, etc… in After Effects. I will also be looking into combustion.
I was curious if anyone has any experience in doing this and what would be the best way to go about it. How it’s going to work out is the main character will be in color (promoting a clothing line) and as people are recognizing him they then turn into color. Another shot planned is him walking (left to right in frame with a 2D composition) and the background changes as he walks by. A few things we have thought about to make it easier during production is keeping the background desaturated (have a school location with mellow earthtones) The background talent would be wearing mostly pastels or black and white. The main character will be wearing a bright color (either green, purple or yellow or orange).
Hope I’ve provided enough of the elements for some good feedback. Thanks in advance.
Nick
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Man, we need to add this to the mographwiki cause it still gets asked all the time.
In a nutshell use the AE built in effect ‘leave color’. If you need more control, then build mattes using keyers and levels (also may need a little roto here and there for cleanup) then apply that as a matte to a duplicate of the footage. One layer is B&W, the other version is color with the matting.
Chris Smith
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Thanks Chris, we’ll be doing our test this weekend.
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Thanks Dave, I did a test today with some footage I shot on the HVX a few months ago. I was able to accomplish what we are looking to do. Keeping everything saturated made more sense after seeing the results. Thanks for the tip.
Nick
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