The Butterfly Effect

flipsidekrew said:
Does anyone know how i can achieve this effect. In the movie The butterfly effect everytime he travels back in the time everything starts shaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_YS1VRwU8

You can see it in this videoclip in 1:23, 2:37, and 3:01
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The way it seems to be done involves having the camera locked down. Then digital pictures are taken of the environment. (If it was a hollywood set you would take a picture of the room naked, add an element like a cabinet take a picture, add a clock take a picture etc. etc.) You could then bring this into photoshop or AE and do some cutting, put each element on a new layer and then add a shake effect to each element. (This way you can control the shake of each object)

You could also take a single picture of the room and break it apart the same way, but everytime you remove something from the foreground you would have to re-create what would've been behind it in P-shop. (This is a lot more work intensive to get the same result)

The final step would be to shoot the actors on green screen, and composite them in. This way you have the environment shaking independantly from the actors which seem to stay still. Add a subtle filter to blend your talent in with your background and it should look pretty believable...err...umm, more believable lol. Good luck!
 
mastertee31 said:
The way it seems to be done involves having the camera locked down. Then digital pictures are taken of the environment. (If it was a hollywood set you would take a picture of the room naked, add an element like a cabinet take a picture, add a clock take a picture etc. etc.) You could then bring this into photoshop or AE and do some cutting, put each element on a new layer and then add a shake effect to each element. (This way you can control the shake of each object)

You could also take a single picture of the room and break it apart the same way, but everytime you remove something from the foreground you would have to re-create what would've been behind it in P-shop. (This is a lot more work intensive to get the same result)

The final step would be to shoot the actors on green screen, and composite them in. This way you have the environment shaking independantly from the actors which seem to stay still. Add a subtle filter to blend your talent in with your background and it should look pretty believable...err...umm, more believable lol. Good luck!
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You could do that all even without a greenscreen, so long as your told your talent to remain fairly still and then rotoscoped. Your lighting would be perfect that way, may save a little hassle.
 
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