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  • Need some creative help

    Posted by Graham Cornell on October 30, 2008 at 12:44 am

    I am finishing up a new short and at the end the “bad” guy is down on his knees and about to die. I show about 4 shots of the good guys walking up to him and it fades up and down while you hear him Inhale and Exhale.

    Does anyone have any good ideas oh what I can do to the shot to make it feel more like he is injured. I was thinking about darkening the edges but don’t know what would be the best/coolest way to do that. Is there a way to make the edge “burn” into black…just don’t want it to fade to black around the edges…want a cooler effect.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Cheers,
    Graham

    Kevin Reiner replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Kevin Reiner

    October 30, 2008 at 1:42 am

    play with a mask and roughen edges. Use brainstorm on roughen edges.
    or there are film burn effects out there. Boris has one, but you’d have to buy the whole package.

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