Compositing continuity?

vitalforce2 wrote on 3/2/2003, 5:45 PM

I have almost finished a short film (shot on DVX100) but we ran out of daylight the last day of affordable cast & crew. For the opening credits, I want to add another 60 seconds of the lead female character walking down a wooded road, but the existing 30 seconds of footage has her walking over patches of snow. Continuity requires that the other 60 seconds show something similar. Let's assume Mother Nature won't cooperate and drop some more snow the day before our next shoot.

Any ideas on how VV3 (or 4, I'm waiting for the box) can be used to create, or suggest, patches of snow in the background of the new 'woods' footage we will be filming?

Comments

Sr_C wrote on 3/2/2003, 6:03 PM

Couldn't you just reshoot the original 30sec with the added 60sec?

vicmilt wrote on 3/2/2003, 7:14 PM

I agree, you don't generally reshoot 60 seconds to save 30, but if the case is that the original 30 are so beautiful you don't want to give them up...
I'd seriously consider a few Xmas "snow blankets", out of focus in the background to set up the scene. Shoot tight close-ups of the talent's face with the fake snow in the bkground. Shift your camera angles a few times, and move the snow to where you need it, as well.
That's the way we do it, when someone is paying for the job, and you better come back with the foootage :))

v.

vitalforces wrote on 3/2/2003, 11:41 PM

(Edited post--editor3333 and vitalforces are the same, i.e. me at home & at office.)

A fine idea, Vicmilt, and thank you for the common sense...!

To Sr C: We had the lead walking up to an old mansion, with foreground snow, which we no longer have access to, so can't reshoot the same footage. And would look strange to have her walking on dry ground until she reached the snowbound house.