protagonist in colour – wider scene in b&w

[Bouke Vahl]

Before or after shooting?
If you still have to shoot, make sure the bg around the actor has as little color as possible. This way with an easy soft mask you can desaturate the rest.

Another option is to stack a lot of (chroma, whatever works) keys on the (matted) actor, and key on a desaturated copy of the same clip.
Keys don’t have to be very good, as you’re keying to itself.

hth,

Bouke

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[Simon Green]

thanks very much bouke.

for info the scene has already been shot, therefore this is a post production issue.

we can give your suggestion a try …. 🙂

simon (in east london, stratford, england uk – location of the 2012 olympics)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eventful/sets/72157623310114976/

^^ some photos of the project here ^^

[Arnie Schlissel]

Google “Pleasantville” and “rotoscoping”

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Dave LaRonde] “When you’re out on a shoot, and you say, “we’ll fix this in post” without knowing PRECISELY HOW you’re going to fix it in post, don’t shoot it! You’ll only end up shooting it over again. “

Well said, Dave!

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[David Roth weiss]

There are automated filters that help to achieve the pleasantville effect, but these are designed to isolate specific colors, not characters. You might tryout the Eureka plugins demo for their Pleasantville filter, but I doubt it will be sufficient for your student’s needs.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Simon Green]

thanks for all the help …. occurred to me you might be interested in the final one minute film.

title: “technophilia”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hASN4Kc81A

Bam Bam Productions Michael Walsh, Allister Harris, Adam Osborn & Ellis Branson

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