Pushing through a playhouse window

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Mark-P

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I want to push a camera forward towards the door of this kids play house and make it appear as if it is going through the window and into the house. The lens does not fit. What can I do to create this effect?

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Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Put the camera on a dolly and move to the window as far as you can go. With the door or wall removed, make a second shot with the dolly and go in as far as you want to go. In your effects software, use the first shot up to the point that you can't go any further. Then make a mask to allow the second shot to appear in the window. Use a movement tracker on the second shot to establish how much the window frame of the door should move with the second shot. If you don't have to zoom out the door too much, it will continue the shot as one smooth shot. Of course, both shots have to have exactly the same light and the same dolly movement.
 
I'd think about putting the window on a hinge and literally pushing through it, might be on a hinge now but if it is then it looks like it opens out. Might not work, but it would be worth trying. The two shots and motion mask or even quick dissolve between two shots should work.

Alternate is don't try to hide it, just swing the door open and keep pushing?
 
Trying to perform a push in focus pull that cuts seamlessly between two different moving shots

Really you need a MoCo rig with focus
 
To further Sam's points--on the focus, we generally shoot these sort of elements fully in focus (so you would track focus to the window, and also to the background in the second element). You can always take something out of focus in post. That way you can determine the point to which you would want to (digitally) rack from the foreground to what is seen through the window.

Along these lines, I'd suggest making the camera move slower than intended as you can always speed up footage to match the dolly rates (more problematic to slow down). Unless there are actors in the second element, in which case shoot that at the desired speed and then shoot the foreground element at a variety of speeds, but definitely make sure you have slower versions.
 
If you have a budget, have someone build you a small set....if it's your own project you can even do it yourself....that way you can do it to the size where the lens can push through and get the shot in one dolly/slider move
 
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