Advice needed on historical video

[Todd Terry]

Greg, I’m sending you a contact name to your personal email… check it.

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Mark Suszko]

A lot of good advice already given. I’d add that depending on the situation, you could also have a 3D cgi re-creation of the site worked up, and that would give you the chance to do a lot of camera moves in, around, and over it… without actually shooting a real location. Illustrations, maps, diagrams and paintings could be scanned and used a the basis for the model. Then you can age it and do fake time-laps changes as well.

I did a project something like this about 2 years ago, and I also had to “vamp” for imagery on a non-existent budget. My solution was to get various maps from the state historic library (the part about having them scanned on-location is very true), then build or find representative props to combine with the 2-d maps into a 2.5-D “world”.