Mystery Guitar Man

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Fahad

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I doubt that's body doubling. I'm guessing there's very subtle transitions and shot doubling instead.
 
If you notice at the 0:56 mark, when the guy is pounding on the table and we have the reverse view of the hallway, the guitar player is not there.
 
If there really are no cuts and it is doubling, there's gotta be three people. I couldn't see 2 people making all of those cues. Especially the 0:44 to 1:26 sequence. The guitar player 0:44 would have about 10 seconds to get up a flight of stairs and to his mark, and another 10 seconds to get down a flight of stairs and come up at the 1:24 mark. Look at the 1:06 mark, his face isn't visable.


Edit: Something else I just noticed is that at the 0:44 mark, the person seems to float a little in the shot, suggesting to me, it's a composite. Which would leave enough time for the person at 0:33 and 0:51 to be the same person.

The part I'm missing is the 1:05 to 1:30 sequence. The guitar player could easily be the double from the laundry room and the tamborine guy is the one from the table down the stairs, but how do they pull the move at the second set of stairs (1:20).
 
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Blaine said:
If you notice at the 0:56 mark, when the guy is pounding on the table and we have the reverse view of the hallway, the guitar player is not there.
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Yes. Two are never seen in the same frame, except the shadow of the second guy is visible when we see the third guy in the laundry room. There are only two frames free of anyone (other than the shadow) between the second and third guys.
 
The jeans are different, torn in different ways. One is torn so that the threads are freely moving in inertia, even with small changes in motion direction. The second has no free threads moving even when coming up the stairs really fast. The guys look very different also, they move differently and have slightly different body type. Sunglasses cannot cover everything.

Obvious signs of using doubles are dark and long shots and unnatural behavior when the camera has to pass really close. The clip has everything. The guy coming up the stairs at 1:28 is very self conscious for no apparent reason:) The guy that did this clip must love the camera lens right?
 
I think some slow motion in post can provide time for everything. The motion does look a little strange. It's not technically a cut:)

I only see two different guys. At 0:17 and 0:26. The 0:26 has a classical greek chin (closer to horizontal than diagonal) and possibly different glasses.
 
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