Friday, June 6, 2008

Shooting teleportation video

In a conversation on youtube I got a great advice from special effects specialist on how to shoot real teleportation in such a way that a specialist would tell it's not a fake.

MisadventureFilms:
post a video on how you do it? please?


Kostya:
Reason 1: youtube is full of fake teleportation videos. How will you judge real video from fake?
There are other reasons too.


MisadventureFilms:
well if you go to my account you can see plenty of special effects...
so if you use digital effects I'll be able to tell. thats actually my current job doing visual effects.
also you have nothing to loose because people will think you are fake untill they see it atleast.
also if you really want people to believe then make sure the camera is always moving and NOT perfectly still like on a tripod or something


Kostya:
Thanks a lot for a great introduction in this subject!
Here is what happened: soon after I shoot my short videos on a teleportation session they tried to film how a coin appears from nowhere in a tea-cup. They tried filming this with Dima, the best teleportation student of Denisov. But it didn't work -- the teleportation didn't happen that day. I believe that the tension was too high for the operator Dima and that's why that day he wan't able to teleport single coin.

But if Denisov will give it another try -- I will remember your advice and tell them to use moving camera. Thanks for your advice!

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