F/X mirrors question (how to) ?

[Randall_Oelerich]

In the new movie "Mirrors"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790686/
an ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. Any ideas how something like this could be done in an indie fashion, on the cheap, how to film it to get that effect, how to use After Effects to do it, etc?

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

In the new movie "Mirrors"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790686/
an ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. Any ideas how something like this could be done in an indie fashion, on the cheap, how to film it to get that effect, how to use After Effects to do it, etc?

You can do 'cheap' greenscreen, or just mask out the mirror if there is no one cutting across the mirror during the 'mirror operation'...

You definitely can mask live footage to 'fit' into a mirror, and also, which such live video with AfterEffects, make layers 3-d, and so have the After Effects 'pan' around mirrors in interesting ways...

As for something like the Matrix scene where Neo touches a mirror and it liquifies, you may be able to do something like that, but obivously you won't be able to make the silver conformal coating effect... but at least the 'drumhead' effect on the mirror serface.