keeping it unsqueezed!

[theos]

I shot some stuff with the ana adapter & kind of like the strched look (with letterbox bars never the less pasted on top)for a particular scene? Am I crazy thinking maybe I could use it un squeezed? Is it done?

 

[mrbimmer]

Re: keeping it unsqueezed!

You can keep it squeezed just letterbox it in post and DON'T tell your NLE it is anamorphic when digitizing and editing.

 

[disjecta]

Re: keeping it unsqueezed!

You may be crazy but what the hell. When I was a kid in Ireland, they used to broadcast some films like that...I vaguely recollect some big Charlton Heston epic with the squeezed look.

Even then, at a very early age, I found myself fascinated with that aspect. It definitely made things look larger than life.

 

[Barry_S]

Re: keeping it unsqueezed!

"Is it done?" Why not?--filmmakers do every sort of manipulation. It's your film and there aren't any rules.

 

[Barry_Green]

Re: keeping it unsqueezed!

Exactly. Just tell everyone how "the camera adds 10 pounds? Well, my camera makes you lose 40 pounds."

Another thing you can do with the anamorphic is loosen the screw and skew it off-kilter while shooting -- you can get some neat effects, great for "drunken-cam", etc.

 

[boo]

Re: keeping it unsqueezed!

[quote author=Barry_Green link=board=Events;num=1086934332;start=0#4 date=06/11/04 at 10:33:23]Exactly.  Just tell everyone how "the camera adds 10 pounds?  Well, my camera makes you lose 40 pounds."[/quote]

yeah, remember paula abdul's music video, "promise of a new day." even the show, "in living color" made a parity of the video calling it, "promise of a thin me."

 

[theos]

Re: keeping it unsqueezed!

I have tossed the idea to and fro . . . wont be using it this time round but I liek the image distortion at full res, I do think it can be used to enhace a point your making, thanks guys!

And as for the weight loss! I WISH IT WERE THAT EASY!