How to do a Hitchcock effect

[Tony]

No excuse for not using simple creative lighing to accomplish an easy backlight shot.

Sure you can try to fake it in post with green screen but without creative lighting to mold and model the light (ie rim and backlight) who cares?

In this day of digital whiz bang plug in’s have we forgot the old school techniques of effective “analog lighting” or is the craft and skill set missing in many of the newer baby digital boomers?

I am not directing this comment to Najor just a general observation.

Tony Salgado

[Jeremy Garchow]

This summer while visiting some buddies in LA, we went to the Hollywood Forever cemetery where they show movies on the side of one of their mausoleums. Pretty cool. This particular night was in mid-august and they were showing Psycho. Sweet. After the show, the host mentioned that it was Hitch’s birthday and he asked us if we would be so kind as to turn around and walk straight back 50 yards, we could go visit Hitch’s grave.

It was a great night and oh so LA.

Jeremy

[Tom Matthies]

[Jerry Hofmann] “Baby boomers are apparently making up 46% of the Mac market… I posted a rant in the MacWorld discussions over the fact that the article about this went on to say that it was a “concern” for Apple’s “hip””

Damn! That makes me MAD! I’m going down there right now! Somebody wanna pass me my walker?
Tom

[David Bogie]

I have not read the entire thread but chromakeying or even doing a simple luma key is making this much more complicated than it needs to be.

If I recall correctly, that was accomplished by using a spotlight from behind a white translucent screen. Hitchcock walked into the beam of light and it cast a shadow onto the translucent screen where the charicature outline (Jules Fiefer?) had been drawn.

It could be done also with front lighting but you need a lighting instrument with a lens in it, something like a Leko.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Jeff Heck]

I have a client who requested the effect and wants the shadow to turn into the person. He is describing it as the “Hitchcock” effect. I haven’t seen the intro in some twenty years, but my take on what he wants to do may be different than what was actually done. I need to see the intro and, I think, it was posted above.

Thanks.