Return of Process Photography??

[Mark Suszko]

For live stage performance, certainly. Drama or music works well with this – saw a very nice staging of “Sunset Boulevard” (the musical) done like this. For videos or films, rear projection creates a “look” that is distinctive and somewhat artificial… which can either take you out of the story, or enhance it, if you’re not trying specifically for realism. For a dreamy or surrealist flavor, it could work. It has a niche.

[Todd Terry]

I certainly think it has its place…

A little while back we did the poor man’s version using footage displayed in a plasma television screen outside a car window. We were doing some automotive stuff, and it was easier/faster/cheaper to do it that way than shoot practically on location at night…

https://fantasticplastic.com/portfolio/news032.html

I just bought a couple of video projectors for another project, so I might try some more of this in the future.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Mark Suszko]

That example (the car window shot) is incredibly good! Did you find it necessary to use plasma vs. LED, or was it just a case of using what was on hand?

[Todd Terry]

Thanks, Mark… I thought it was passable.

Purely a matter of what was convenient. Honestly, I called it a “plasma” monitor just by default, now that I think about it that might be an LED monitor. Or LCD. Or OLED. I’d have to go upstairs and look and I’m lazy. Now that I think about it I don’t think it’s a plasma because it’s not that heavy. We just grabbed the one from our conference room because it’s the only large screen in the building that’s “loose” (not mounted on a wall or hung from a ceiling). Pure convenience.

Actually a bigger one would have worked better (I think that’s a 42″) because we had to put it up RIGHT outside the car in order for it to cover all of the window area on screen. So I produced several versions of the insert clip with different levels of blurriness so we could pick one that looked at least semi-realistic.

The fact that it is only a two-second shot also helps.

Giving away my cheapskate secrets here, that scene was lit using only a couple of three-buck LED puck lights from Harbor Freight.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Jason Jenkins]

[Todd Terry] “Giving away my cheapskate secrets here, that scene was lit using only a couple of three-buck LED puck lights from Harbor Freight.”

Of course, that cheap trick only works when you have a camera that can see in the dark.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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