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Infected Editing
I always wondered how one would edit like they edited the Infected scenes in 28 days later, where it was like really fast pace. I really don’t know how to explain it. I found a video on youtube that shows a simple example of what I’m talking about: https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VXgJ0PIGVPE
it happens around 1:20
How do they do it? Speed of up the film and/or take out frames? Or do they change 24fps to like 12 for example?
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You can achieve this by undercranking the camera – shooting at a slower frame rate and playing it back at 24p, or by speeding up what you shot in post. However, the real key to this look is how you set the shuttering on the camera – you need a fast shutter speed and preferably using a film camera you would use oblique shuttering (a la the beach scenes in Saving Private Ryan) to create a choppy and harsh flickering look in your footage.
Really, that’s the key to making this work, and it’s hard to fake. You can use frame cutting to create a jerkier and more agressive look, but it’s much more time consuming.
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28 Days Later was shot on tape, not film.
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I know. They go on about it in that video. However, it’s likely that although it was a video camera, they used something like the Pro35 adapter to bolt a photograhic or cine lens onto the body, as it was shot by a film DoP and camera crew. Shutter speed is also universal to both formats.
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Pretty sure they also used one of the Avid motion effects where it repeats 2 frames in a row then skips the next frame then repeats 2 frames etc. I forget what the exact effect is called. You can do it in final cut with strobe. But this combined with a very fast shutter speed is what did it.
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