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Low budget wardrobe change magic
For a low-budget spot, I need to have a talent suddenly become draped in a different wardrobe, without looking like a jump cut. Sort of like in the old show Bewitched.
I’ve thought of using some kind of particle effect as a transition, but to do a straight cut, what’s the best way to shoot this?
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Simple. Shoot the talent naked (which allows you to re-sell the spot as porn!), and paint the clothes on them in post.
Seriously, there are 2 ways that I can think of to do this:
1) With a locked down the camera, the worlds best continuity person, & incredibly good talent that can literally move exactly the same way with the same timing from take to take. And perhaps a very short dissolve.
2) CG. The talent is actually a 3-D character, & the animator swaps out the clothes.
Either way- Good Luck!
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well in the old show beweitched they were just jump cuts.
highly trained actors and crew pulled it off, i guess.
oh damn! i forgot the editors!they’d always dusguise the cut with some action.
place the cut right at the end or start of movement.costume changes would have had break-away clothes,
if the bigger outfit revealed a smaller one
(master pops out of space suit… oops wrong show)of course therse days it’s easier to fool the eye with some distraction like some sparkles, or magic aura glow.
(anyone found that magic aura glow plugin yet?and they’d probably use blue screen, to place actors on a more naturaly moving bg,
and morphing to twaak out any differences between hte frames.nick
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“they’d always dusguise the cut with some action.
place the cut right at the end or start of movement.”hmm that’s not good advice…
beter to cut IN the action..
cut at the moment of most confusion..nick
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I would lock down the camera and bring a laptop with FCP to the set. Capture on the fly to the laptop so you can line up your talent to be the exact same spot by looking at a freeze of the moment you’re going to make the cut. Then have the actor perform the action and capture the new scene. Then make the edit and see if it cuts well. If not, do it again.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
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Thanks much guys, very helpful.
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Another thought is to get the positioning close (with locked down cam) and then morph from one shot to the next.
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