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n1c02

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I have a few scenes that I want to film.. first Ill explain the scenes..
Will consist of a patient(young girl) and her doctor. The film will be about the girl grown up. remembering her shildhood spent in the hospital getting psychological help. I was thinking on the lines of them both sitting say at a table in a "REC" room maybe or the possibility of her them sitting at his desk . I will never show them at the same time. but only from one point of view at a time.. More so see the girl 99%. These shots will be flashbacks of a timeline of her sessions as she remembers more and more... the issue that I have is that I only have a few days until the girls gets braces on.. sooo... I need to get these shots in this weekend.. for the look and I know her speech will be differant for a while.. We are waiting on clearance for the use of one of our old schools no longer in use.. Im out of time on this.

So I was thinking of using her in front of the green screen and compositing the background in in post.. This part of the film will have an older look to it so Im no too concerned about that. But other than a static image behind her, are there any other alternatives that I can do or try to make these scenes look more alive...

Terry
 
n1c02 said:
But other than a static image behind her, are there any other alternatives that I can do or try to make these scenes look more alive...
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Motion tracking with white points on the green screen: then in your editing software (After Effects is a great one to do it) you can simply track the points, then link the background to it so it'll follow the points and match your shot.
Slider shots, same motion tracking applies to that shot.
Other than that, try to frame your shots (static) so it won't be boring after 5 mins. Try some interesting shots, dutch angles and change as much as possible. Don't simply use wide shots, combine with close-ups and from different place "on the set". Then in post, try to have as many picture of the "actual" background you want to add, just take as much as possible of the walls, directly in front and from different angles too (keep in mind how you'll be framing your shots on the green screen) and take the stills according to that. Should work and would leave you enough room to "build" your final shot.
 
Thanks for the reply...Ive never done motion tracking with the white dots on a green screen.. is it hard to do? But basically when say I dolly the picture background would also follow that dolly shot? I am going to give this a shot possibly on Sunday.. Ill post before and after once I get these done..
 
n1c02 said:
Thanks for the reply...Ive never done motion tracking with the white dots on a green screen.. is it hard to do? But basically when say I dolly the picture background would also follow that dolly shot? I am going to give this a shot possibly on Sunday.. Ill post before and after once I get these done..
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If you don't already have software for motion tracking, like Syntheyes or PFTrack, you can practice with Blender's new motion tracking features. Blender is a free open source program, so it won't cost you anything to practice with it (www.blender.org). I have played with the Blender motion tracker a little bit and it already seems to do a fairly good job even at this early stage of its development. You can watch a training video for it at http://vimeo.com/33283857.
 
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