Film making question no1

[Generic Skinhead]

Alrighty, I need to make one of my actors dissapear. Question is, how? It's being shot on 16mm, so none of this poxy DV pause button trickery either please!

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[ChaddyO]

You can get the shot with the actor in the scene. Then get a shot with the actor not in the scene. Crossfade the two shots and that's one way of doing it.

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[eddie]

duh...
camera on a tripod
film actor.
stop filming.
Actor walks out of shot
start filming again
Hey presto the character pops out of exsistence.
Or do an in camera fade out.

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[gaspode]

I was gonna say, what are you going on about 'no pause button' all you have to do is stop filming

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[miker]

yeah, but DV is poxy, remember

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[RoyBaty2002]

Why so down on DV? Its affordable, easy to use, and has good quality results. Or is this a 'real film makers ONLY use film' type of snobbery.

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[Generic Skinhead]

O god lets not start this DV vs Film crap again. The fade sounds best because the charachter is being transported to another reality type thing.

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[8th Man]

If you're feeling brave, you can do this all in-camera, if you have a Bolex type camera with a back winder. Otherwise it may need to be done with optical printing the same way any cross-dissolve would be done.

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[Alex]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, helvetica, sans serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Generic Skinhead:
Alrighty, I need to make one of my actors dissapear. Question is, how? It's being shot on 16mm, so none of this poxy DV pause button trickery either please!
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Yeah, but what are you editing on?

If it is a straight to video release, don't stop the camera, just have the actor walk out of the shot.

stopping and starting the camera may result in a slight "bobble".

Just create the effect when you edit digitally.

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[This message has been edited by Alex (edited March 10, 2002).]

[Generic Skinhead]

OK...NO IT'S NOT GOING STRAIGHT TO VIDEO!

I need a simple effect that can be done on film without costing me a fortune. Ill be cutting digitally but then transferring back to a finished 16mm print.

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