Double vision/blurred effect

[jpsheets]

Hey everyone,

How do you do a blurred vision/double vision effect? Kind of like from the POV of a drugged person? Is that done in camera or NLE?

thanks in advance!

JP

[Huy Vu]

You can shoot at a low shutter speed. In my experience anything lower than 1/15 would result in a blurred effect every time you move the camera.

[Ronin Cam]

You can do it in camera if you have the right lens. Any pro camera that has a lens with a 2x extender that is. Instead of snapping the extender in (to double your telephoto range), play with holding the extender "half-in". This makes whatever is central in your frame blurred and planted "within" a larger 2x image of the same thing. The two images also move off of the center axis at different rates which adds to the effect.

[Steve_Arm]

Get really drunk & start shooting so you can actually capture the "drunk" movement when walking.

Then on post apply the effect. I suggest on post so you can have more freedom in adjusting it since doing it on the camera will be fixed.

[Neil Rowe]

im not sure if your talking about what im thinking, but i posted a little short recently here:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=62753
where i used a subtle effect somthing to the tune of a double vision sort of "stunned" view. while its not a POV shot it has the same desired effect on the audience. to create a basic double vision effect you can double the layer and then overlay itself at a transparancey of 50% or less normally. then slightly offset the top layer by sze or placement and youll get a doube vision effect. what i did was a little different. i didnt offset the top layer or layers(sometimes used 3 itteration of the same layer for a triple vision tracer type effect) at all by size or space. instead i changed the speed at which they play back, so that while the image may start as one solid image . when the other layers play slower or faster. you will get a lagged image of the same main image which splits off from the main layer. or on that goes ahead of it and shows you what the main layer is about to do. i also used the effect at the start, and then let the layers come together until they were matched in time. to add a more blurry effects you could just add some blur (radial would seem like a good start for a heavy effect, and standard blur for a more subtle one)to all the layers. some could be more blurred than others. if you want the image to have "tracers: where the light streaks behind the image when it moves you can use an effect like "time echo" or someting similar depending on the plugins you have. this will give you a long exposure effect when used right.

[jpsheets]

Thanks guys, just the info I was looking for!

Steve - Is that how the DP's do it in Greece? I know you guys can put away the Juice!

cheers,

JP

[Steve_Arm]

Steve - Is that how the DP's do it in Greece? I know you guys can put away the Juice!


:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG) Yes it's more natural.

[jpsheets]

Hi Neil,

Did you manipulate the layers in photoshop or is that something you can do in FCP?

thanks,

JP