How Mirror Scenes Are Shot In Movies & TV | Movies Insider

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

КОМЕНТАРІ • 696

  • @alisha4818
    @alisha4818 2 роки тому +3183

    These people are hella talented! Thanks insider for making such interesting videos!

    • @SayAhh
      @SayAhh 2 роки тому +14

      Not just for pulling it off but also to come up with the ideas and conceptualizing it!
      Computer-control camera trick reminds me of they way they shot Kevin Kline's scenes in Dave since he was playing two characters who were the doppelganger of each other.

    • @Haut-Potentiel-Emotionnel
      @Haut-Potentiel-Emotionnel 2 роки тому

      Merci France

    • @OttrPopAnimations
      @OttrPopAnimations 2 роки тому

      frrr

  • @stevenfoster9402
    @stevenfoster9402 2 роки тому +4094

    This is why I love movies. Not just for the celebrities in them, but *how* the movies are actually made.

    • @EmpyreanFrost
      @EmpyreanFrost 2 роки тому +49

      How certain effects are achieved...how camera angles are obtained...that is my favorite thing about them.

    • @mammontustado9680
      @mammontustado9680 2 роки тому +27

      You love movies because of the celebrities? That's terribly shallow, don't you think?

    • @sammytorres3340
      @sammytorres3340 2 роки тому +18

      He said he also loves the movies for the cinematic work and how everything comes out obviously you ain't a movie buff @@mammontustado9680

    • @Wonbaeofficial
      @Wonbaeofficial 2 роки тому +27

      @@mammontustado9680 keyword, he said NOT JUST FOR CELEBRITIES, really should’ve payed attention to that, don’t you think?

    • @kassiogomes8498
      @kassiogomes8498 2 роки тому +17

      @@mammontustado9680 half of the world loves movies because of the actors. Are you living under a rock?

  • @DeviantDebianDuck
    @DeviantDebianDuck 2 роки тому +829

    I totally wonder why I never questions to my self how mirror shots was made. This is so mind-blowing

    • @dennisanderson3895
      @dennisanderson3895 2 роки тому +69

      You never questioned the mirror shots because they were done so perfectly, you didn't even think about it. That's how it should be.

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 2 роки тому +8

      Right? I never even noticed.

    • @DeviantDebianDuck
      @DeviantDebianDuck 2 роки тому +8

      @@dennisanderson3895 yeep and that's what even more amazing

    • @yestermonth
      @yestermonth 2 роки тому +14

      I always ask myself but my final conclusion was CGI and use of hidden cameras. Didn't know about the double mirror and window trick.

    • @aqua5769
      @aqua5769 2 роки тому

      Yea! It always looks so natural!!!

  • @goncalohomem
    @goncalohomem 2 роки тому +1858

    Fun fact: the twins who take the actresses' coats in the Last Night In Soho shot are the actors who played the Weasley twins in Harry Potter.

    • @eviebb
      @eviebb 2 роки тому +164

      thank god i was looking for this comment because i looked at their faces and was like “??????? is that james and oliver phelps?”

    • @BubbaCoop
      @BubbaCoop 2 роки тому +32

      They kind of buried the lead on that shot

    • @BubbaCoop
      @BubbaCoop 2 роки тому +6

      @@AllySheehan it is in their IMDb credits. I just checked

    • @AllySheehan
      @AllySheehan 2 роки тому +3

      @@BubbaCoop you're right!

    • @JD-ht7yw
      @JD-ht7yw 2 роки тому +6

      damn! the disrespect

  • @nicholasgarcia6402
    @nicholasgarcia6402 2 роки тому +410

    The coolest part was the last note about covering blind spots and using those digital re-timing tools to alter the frame rate. Wow.

    • @dennisanderson3895
      @dennisanderson3895 2 роки тому +17

      To alter the movements of *individual* background folks! I thought, "They can DO that?" :-O

    • @nicholasgarcia6402
      @nicholasgarcia6402 2 роки тому +2

      @@dennisanderson3895 right??? An obsessive directors dream

    • @owlsareeverything4152
      @owlsareeverything4152 2 роки тому +1

      I know!! That blew my mind!

  • @ManCave1972
    @ManCave1972 2 роки тому +474

    Man that’s so much work for what seems like a simple shot, sometimes you wonder why they don’t do the shot another way. The effort that goes into movies is remarkable.

    • @jcmc9378
      @jcmc9378 2 роки тому +19

      it's art
      in a good way

    • @Izzy-qf1do
      @Izzy-qf1do 2 роки тому

      I was thinking the same thing.

    • @vote4mel
      @vote4mel 2 роки тому +5

      Definitely way more goes into this than I thought! For some movies and scenes, the effort seems totally worth it. In others, was that mirror shot really necessary? Sometimes it seems nothing is lost without it.

    • @lukeshippart4
      @lukeshippart4 2 роки тому +8

      Now you're thinking as a producer 😂

    • @i.1213
      @i.1213 2 роки тому

      Maybe because they practice so that they find out new ways of shooting that, you know, might turn out useful for the fake news that the government puts on our “news”… 😂

  • @Swnsasy
    @Swnsasy 2 роки тому +1556

    I always love learning this stuff because you then realize how much with the entire crew of a movie does so yea, I see why they make so much money.. They deserve it!!

    • @RobbertScholten
      @RobbertScholten 2 роки тому +88

      Eh they do not make much money at all, many artists are underpaid and overworked! Sure, movies make millions of dollars, but the artists working on them still only make a minimum wage sadly.

    • @stanleysmith4563
      @stanleysmith4563 2 роки тому

      @@RobbertScholten some movies make billions wat r u even saying dat dey dont make enough money? Actors make blood money

    • @creativekaii
      @creativekaii 2 роки тому +70

      @@stanleysmith4563 I think she was referring to the people behind the scenes like CGI specialists and Special FX people, not the actors. The actors and Director make the most money from films aside from the production company itself.

    • @Swansniff2
      @Swansniff2 2 роки тому +36

      @@creativekaii Like any business it's based on responsibility, demand and investment. Producers make the most because they finance the movie, they also have the most to lose in terms of money. Directors make a lot as they have a huge responsibility and their creative vision is important and often unique, their careers are also dependent on successful movies. Actors get a lot based on denamnd, a famous actor will sell the movie and can therefor demand high pay. Except for some well known DOPs, VFXsupervisors and other key functions, most of the other roles are easily replacable just like the average McDonalds worker. Not because they aren't insanely talented artists, but just by the fact that there are enough talended artist to willingly take their place if they say no.

    • @thebluefriend
      @thebluefriend 2 роки тому +4

      A fine group of passionate people trying to create masterpieces. They could've just as well removed the mirror scene.

  • @betterchapter
    @betterchapter 2 роки тому +2627

    Cameraman is the most advance human species

    • @user-pk1ss6cm9d
      @user-pk1ss6cm9d 2 роки тому +75

      imagine trying to write these scenes and explain what you mean..

    • @SayAhh
      @SayAhh 2 роки тому +17

      Theoretical physicists are no slouch, either.

    • @zamirstuff
      @zamirstuff 2 роки тому +27

      Cinnamontographer

    • @Pluvillion
      @Pluvillion 2 роки тому +18

      They’re also immortal!

    • @Zamarae
      @Zamarae 2 роки тому

      Lol

  • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
    @JoseMorales-lw5nt 2 роки тому +336

    Another great piece of cinematic trickery can be found in THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS! There's a ballroom sequence in which the 3 main characters dance with each other to escape a room full of vampires. A mirror covering one of the walls exposes the living characters to the vampires in a crazy trick shot. A duplicate set was built to look like the ballroon's reflection. Three stunt people were dressed to look like the main actors and mimic their dancing. Thus, creating the illusion that the vampires in the room had no reflection! Great sequence to watch...

    • @amberwitteman4462
      @amberwitteman4462 2 роки тому +6

      Dracula dead and loving it!!

    • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
      @JoseMorales-lw5nt 2 роки тому +7

      @@amberwitteman4462 Ah yes, that great one-upsmansip between Leslie Nielsen and Mel Brooks was classic. And you know who got the last word in...

    • @onepman
      @onepman 2 роки тому +3

      I guess that's where they got the scene from van helsing..they basically stole it...or vise- versa

    • @np8366
      @np8366 2 роки тому +2

      They use the same trick in the musical version (Tanz der Vampire) too! Although it's much more choreographed and during the gay scene

    • @timl.b.2095
      @timl.b.2095 2 роки тому

      @@onepman Fearless Vampire Killers is way older.

  • @BradKalinoski
    @BradKalinoski 2 роки тому +138

    I was the Compositing supervisor for Black Swan, and those mirror shots, were a big pain. But in the end it was incredible work done by the artist that I worked with.

    • @gues04
      @gues04 2 роки тому +19

      Awesome movie, good job dude!

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 2 роки тому +36

    The camera work and choreography in SOHO in that nightclub scene are amazing. there are other videos on YT showing how the swapping of dance partners was done ENTIRELY in-camera in a single take with NO CGI tricks

  • @yazzieyaz740
    @yazzieyaz740 2 роки тому +53

    Next time I watch ‘Last Night in Soho’ I’ll definitely be paying more attention to those scenes . That movie was one of my favorites to come out of 2021 , it’s original as well . Shout out Edgar Wright.

  • @otakubancho6655
    @otakubancho6655 2 роки тому +122

    The mirror scene from the film Citizen Kane was much more iconic as it featured two mirrors set opposite each other,creating an infinity effect,with no camera visible.

    • @dgtldead
      @dgtldead 2 роки тому +19

      Double sided mirror

  • @abdullahjaved0330
    @abdullahjaved0330 2 роки тому +173

    How is this movie not getting recognition for its groundbreaking vfx work?

    • @meatwax
      @meatwax 2 роки тому +32

      I think its becuase it's subtle..I have always been amazed by the shot in Contact. But it happens so quickly during a dramatic moment, ost folks don't even register it.

    • @lurker6918
      @lurker6918 2 роки тому

      @@meatwax Yeah I agree

    • @ImaPizzaK
      @ImaPizzaK 2 роки тому +8

      Which one

    • @Leprutz
      @Leprutz 2 роки тому

      @@ImaPizzaK The one that is shown in this video. The girl running.

    • @ImaPizzaK
      @ImaPizzaK 2 роки тому

      @@Leprutz Obviously is in the video you didn't have to add that in

  • @addie-eileenpaige6460
    @addie-eileenpaige6460 2 роки тому +26

    This is really cool. I had a feeling some of it was CGI in later years.
    That shot they did in Contact of the girl running down the hallway then having her reflection in the mirror was very impressive.

  • @DevLunar
    @DevLunar Рік тому +5

    If you haven't actually worked in film or stopped to think about the process a lot of people don't realize the amount of effort behind it. There are lots of little things like this that need to be considered while shooting. Behind the scenes videos are so fascinating and really help you appreciate the work

  • @TheJraap
    @TheJraap 2 роки тому +72

    At 3:22 that’s not a steadycam. It’s an easyrig. At 4:29 that is a steadycam. For whoever wants to know 😊 Very nice explanation of mirrorshots besides that!! ❤️🙌

    • @alregtx4414
      @alregtx4414 2 роки тому +2

      👍

    • @CraigGood
      @CraigGood 2 роки тому +4

      I was about to post the same thing. Glad I checked. Of course, Steadicam is likely to join kleenex and xerox as a generic noun eventually.

  • @Mattsu101
    @Mattsu101 2 роки тому +18

    This video makes me appreciate movies, that I liked beforehand, even more.
    Thank you

  • @chemaramosroa
    @chemaramosroa 2 роки тому +99

    Amazing video! Just a very small note, at 3:19 when talking about a steadicam you're actually showing an "EasyRig" which is used on shots that still want a handheld look instead of the smooth "floating camera" movement provided by a steadicam system :)

    • @chemaramosroa
      @chemaramosroa 2 роки тому +10

      Oh, I see on 4:27 you do show a steadicam, nice!

  • @mrx1333
    @mrx1333 2 роки тому +34

    Such a talent to have! That's what makes these movies so great! Huge props to the crew on these movies!

    • @dennisanderson3895
      @dennisanderson3895 2 роки тому +2

      Hear Hear! The crew members are too overlooked - but *they* are the ones who really "make the magic" of the movie!

  • @Henkibojj
    @Henkibojj 2 роки тому +3

    The video editing on this video is supreme. Thank you for your skill and your taste in not bloating everything with flashy effects and transitions just for the sake of them being there. The narrator is calm, professional and informative and unlike many other videos where script and video are mismatched severely, the script matches the video perfectly, allowing for a good understanding of the message. This, is what quality content looks like. Thank you!

  • @anonymouxx9261
    @anonymouxx9261 2 роки тому +8

    I can't wait till i make my own movies one day!! This is so inspiring!! I remember practicing not getting my phone to be seen in mirrors :D

  • @vdussaut9182
    @vdussaut9182 2 роки тому +14

    The opening scene in Peggy Sue Got Married has one of the best uses of a duplicated-set mirror scene ever, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Kathleen Turner had to face a body double who mirrored her actions exactly while she put on makeup. It’s so well done I never noticed it was a different actress until decades later when I read it somewhere. I’m really surprised they didn’t reference it in this video!

  • @IanZainea1990
    @IanZainea1990 2 роки тому +3

    2:21 actually getting a clean plate from production. That's cute.

  • @SmileyySmiley
    @SmileyySmiley 2 роки тому +31

    5:13 FunFact: Those are the Weasley Twins from Harry Potter.

  • @MLTAKOS
    @MLTAKOS 2 роки тому +22

    im soo mad at people for flopping last night in soho in box office, its such a well made movie

    • @Call-me-Al
      @Call-me-Al 2 роки тому +6

      We're living during the biggest pandemic since the Spanish Flu, of course it flopped. The only movie in 2021 I risked my health for was Spiderman (lifelong Spidey fan), but that was after my second vaccine shot, with an n95 mask, in a tiny movie theater (in a quite small city) that didn't even have 3D capabilities and whose biggest salon couldn't even seat 100 people when full, and I went to see it there after a week of it already running so in total we were maybe eight people spread out over the whole salon.
      I am really hoping there will be reruns of this movie in a few years, because I really want to see it in 3D if possible. Which is what I would have done in November (watch it in 3D on a gigantic screen) if safety had not been a concern. The worst of the pandemic is over in the west, especially with most of the populations being fully vaccinated plus a booster and omnicron going after your lungs less than delta, but I wouldn't expect movie-goers to have returned fully to their old habits until 2023.

  • @jlopez1017d
    @jlopez1017d 2 роки тому +10

    This is the type of thing you never think of when you watch movies but is very interesting to learn

  • @scraperindustry
    @scraperindustry 2 роки тому +3

    I love these behind the scenes VFX videos. Keep 'em coming

  • @laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953
    @laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953 2 роки тому +2

    That one shot from Contact is brilliant and probably groundbreaking for the time.

  • @CaptainYokkiller
    @CaptainYokkiller 2 роки тому +7

    Everyone always talks about the directors and the actors when talking about movies. But the SFX crew and artists are the real stars for me. Because at the end of the day they're the ones that bring the shots to life.

  • @amaomustafa1092
    @amaomustafa1092 2 роки тому

    Woah, I'm lost. The attention and effort to detail is what makes this movie industry the best on the planet

  • @duckve0322
    @duckve0322 2 роки тому +2

    It's always incredible to see how movies are made, all those techniques and skills

  • @Facuando216
    @Facuando216 2 роки тому +17

    The sucker punch is still one of my faves tho, and Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void also has a cool mirror scene

    • @meatwax
      @meatwax 2 роки тому

      Gaspar Noe is incredible. His mastery and innovation with film making is rivaled only by the intensity of the subject matter

  • @marinadela1361
    @marinadela1361 2 роки тому +2

    I'm so glad this interest of mine from long ago is getting recognition

  • @jonpguthrie
    @jonpguthrie 2 роки тому

    This feels like true old school movie magic. So much skill needed to create the illusion of actual mirrors I never thought about until now. Crazy.

  • @ShajiCee
    @ShajiCee Рік тому

    Soho regarding to this mirror thing is astonishing, amazing made and acted . That movie deserves more credit . All Anya movie and and that director movies too .

  • @skandarc2810
    @skandarc2810 2 роки тому +1

    Incredible. Now I need to watch Last Night in Soho. But I like how the iconic shot in Terminator 2 is still recognized.

  • @ACosmonaut
    @ACosmonaut 2 роки тому +7

    Fascinating! Something I often wondered about and am even more impressed now that I've seen some of the tricks. Thanks!

  • @marnofranck6204
    @marnofranck6204 2 роки тому +1

    VFX artists are heavy underrated

  • @CarlsJrTanookiCat
    @CarlsJrTanookiCat 2 роки тому

    I’m always amazed at these types of mirror shots. It’s great knowing how artists create these shots but still amazing

  • @chilzmapewwep2671
    @chilzmapewwep2671 2 роки тому +1

    I'm always amazed at these details in movies!!

  • @theunreadcomment9834
    @theunreadcomment9834 2 роки тому +7

    I think you need to be clearer about your definitions. When you say CG, its not always CG (i.e. computer generated), for the most part its more compsiting (i.e. splicing multiple real shots together) as opposed to creating the shot digitally on a computer (CG). This is why we have so many people just calling everything CG, when in fact a lot of footage is still real, its just cut together from separate shots (compositing) and wasn't created digitally. You can do compsiting purely with real film without the need for a computer, just because the process has moved onto computers doesn't suddenly make it CG, otherwise you might as well just say that any footage captured digitally rather than on film is CG.

    • @amos.rand_vfx
      @amos.rand_vfx 2 роки тому

      Yay thank you for someone finally acknowledging this and properly explaining it to everyone!

    • @woodhonky3890
      @woodhonky3890 2 роки тому +1

      @@amos.rand_vfx So many butthurt compositors in this comment section. 😁

  • @bluenightsky
    @bluenightsky 2 роки тому

    That Contact shot is brilliant! Super creative and engrossing. Wow

  • @MateoQuixote
    @MateoQuixote 2 роки тому +1

    Was really hoping you'd include the Spike Jonze KENZO ad. Iconic use of mirrors that still baffles me

  • @EleyReiHer
    @EleyReiHer 10 місяців тому

    The camerawork for Contact @3:05, was really pivotal. That scenes stuck in my mind after leaving the theatre 🎭. The film itself 📽️.... EPIC!!!

  • @jordyb57
    @jordyb57 25 днів тому

    This was actually way cooler than I expected

  • @lahalhalha
    @lahalhalha 2 роки тому +9

    This always bugged me! I never knew how they filmed a mirror scene without the camera being in it! Now my mind is at ease

    • @kipsnip
      @kipsnip Рік тому +1

      definitely makes me even more attentive to mirror scenes. I never thought this much about them :O

  • @augustgreig9420
    @augustgreig9420 2 роки тому +10

    There's a mirror shot in "To Live and Die in LA" with Willem Dafoe that's incredible. Disappointed it wasn't in here.

  • @xaraphyn
    @xaraphyn 2 роки тому +8

    I have been wondering this for years! Now i know and thank you for sharing. :)

  • @4TheMotorist
    @4TheMotorist 2 роки тому +1

    Id never give this a thought in movies but turns out
    it can be a complicated process but something movie makers
    work with all the time i guess. Thanks insider, you have a new
    sub

  • @n1kolodian
    @n1kolodian Рік тому

    What's so cool about these types of "how did they do it?" types of shots, is the magic element if it all. Discovering the method used in the movie or even coming up with your own unique way of accomplishing the same feat is a lot like watching a magician reveal his tricks. Like a veil is lifted, and all of a sudden you can see behind the mirror.

  • @NipItInTheBud100
    @NipItInTheBud100 2 роки тому

    After watching this I can see why I would have enjoyed working behind the scenes of movies rather in front of the camera! This was such a cool video!

  • @recycledminis
    @recycledminis 2 роки тому

    I never asked that question before but now I’m amazed!

  • @aaliyan2
    @aaliyan2 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant!

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 2 роки тому

    Years ago I ran into Linda Hamilton in a Toronto Starbucks and was having a nice chat with her before I recognized her. Could not have been nicer. She was with her twin, which made the experience twice as surreal.

  • @oldtimesong
    @oldtimesong 2 роки тому

    I could watch content like this FOR HOURS.

  • @Jacob-ry3lu
    @Jacob-ry3lu 2 роки тому

    That Contact shot is just astonishingly cool…

  • @EmpyreanFrost
    @EmpyreanFrost 2 роки тому

    Cinematography/Filmography is one of my absolute favorite things in existence.

  • @Serifinity
    @Serifinity 2 роки тому

    Contact was an amazing movie. Love re-watching it...

  • @prodigychidi
    @prodigychidi 2 роки тому +3

    This is only coming as old news to me thanks to the incredible work done by Paul E.T in his mirror video essay.

  • @charliebryer2802
    @charliebryer2802 2 роки тому +3

    Absolutely fascinating video. So much ingenuity and effort and all designed to completely invisible and so unappreciated.

  • @shandidTries
    @shandidTries 2 роки тому +2

    These persons are so creative !!

  • @CaressLorthaya
    @CaressLorthaya 2 роки тому +2

    It takes the actor to be very talented to achieve all of this. Everyone works as a team from the talent, to the cameraman, ultimately to the production editor. I looooovvveee anything that has to do with production so this is very interesting to me!!! The Soho movie looks really good! I'm gonna watch it!

  • @crippling_
    @crippling_ 2 роки тому +2

    5:14 This isn't VFX, that's just the Weasley twins doing magic

  • @29subhra
    @29subhra Рік тому

    Wow finally I can go to sleep peacefully!! Mirror shots are brilliant and requires top level skills

  • @moreenpackard6897
    @moreenpackard6897 2 роки тому +1

    Digital Retiming of components within frame,,,,?? WOW. That was today's "Brain Exploder". Thanks for the knowledge.

  • @bc9942
    @bc9942 2 роки тому

    THANK YOU for this video!!! How they shot late night in soho has driven me crazy

  • @brindlebucker4741
    @brindlebucker4741 2 роки тому

    Contact is one of my favourite films of all time, and I always wondered how they did the mirror shot!

  • @jeffjtoth
    @jeffjtoth Рік тому

    Nice bit of thematic mirroring using shots featuring Jena Malone as the subject for one of the best examples (Contact) and the worst (Suckerpunch)

  • @anna.augustinova
    @anna.augustinova 2 роки тому +4

    I've always wondered about this!

  • @GregConquest
    @GregConquest 2 роки тому +2

    Interesting. Thanks.
    One thing about "one-way mirrors", though . . . They're actually just half-silvered, and there is no front or back. If the viewer is on the well-illuminated side, then they see their reflection. If you're on the dark side, then your dark reflection is there, it's just washed out by the bright image on the other side of the glass. You could flip the mirror around, and it would make no difference. The bright side dominates both sides.

  • @jayak397
    @jayak397 2 роки тому

    I was just thinking about that scene from Contact and here it is!

  • @frankichiro
    @frankichiro 2 роки тому +1

    La Haine from 1995 is a great movie.

  • @somarriba333
    @somarriba333 Рік тому +1

    I'm more fascinated by how cameras and wires are removed. I'll have to find a video that explains that.

  • @asiaw8888
    @asiaw8888 2 роки тому

    It’s incredible how much goes into filmmaking

  • @samyakjain6795
    @samyakjain6795 2 роки тому +2

    no you are wrong, The camera man has mastered the art of standing so still that he attains invisibility

  • @MathieuTechMoto
    @MathieuTechMoto 2 роки тому

    Didn't know mirrors has so much work until now , what a challenge !

  • @inigojuancarlos
    @inigojuancarlos 2 роки тому

    That Contact cabinet mirror scene when I first saw was just mind blowing

  • @satyarth5314
    @satyarth5314 2 роки тому +1

    These make me want to become a VFX artist but then I hear lack of scope in VFX career

  • @justiceforashgoton4427
    @justiceforashgoton4427 2 роки тому

    these artists are very perfectionists!

  • @dennisanderson3895
    @dennisanderson3895 2 роки тому +1

    I'm reminded in the TV show "Sliders": With locking camera movements, the scene in the first episode when Quinn meets his slider-self from another Earth, it "only" took about two weeks to get the scene and its interactions. But the guy who played the singer "Cryin' Man' has a real life twin brother and they brought him in many times for scenes with the two interacting (I never knew that at the time it was airing on TV).

  • @Mattnoble80
    @Mattnoble80 2 роки тому

    The possibilities are endless with what they can make you see

  • @hbp_
    @hbp_ 2 роки тому +7

    Shifting the lens wasn't mentioned. While it's a famous trick, I couldn't quickly find an example in a big budget movie. I can see several reasons why it's not popular from usability concerns to matching with other lenses.

  • @CreatingwithTT
    @CreatingwithTT 2 роки тому

    I think this video proves even more point why the people behind the movies are just as legendary as the actors

  • @rocketpsyence
    @rocketpsyence Місяць тому

    This is the kinda subtle stuff CGI SHOULD be used for. Not making the whole movie look like unfeeling plastic

  • @simplebhai
    @simplebhai 2 роки тому

    This is what I'm looking for since long time , thank you

  • @jimreadey4837
    @jimreadey4837 2 роки тому

    I love this kind of inside information! (Hated the music, though, once I noticed it at the very end...)

  • @irbomusic
    @irbomusic 2 роки тому +2

    1:29 Alan Becker moment

  • @tannermedina9732
    @tannermedina9732 2 роки тому +7

    Just a little nitpick here, multiple times they reference swapping out the background and replacing mirrors with other takes as CG, this is really just good compositing, and nothing in the shot is computer generated.

    • @the_omg3242
      @the_omg3242 2 роки тому +1

      Except that they use a computer to remove the original background and paste in new sections of each frame. The computer also generates the transparency maps used to select the parts they want to composite and tracks those areas from frame to frame.
      While the computer may not be rendering scenes based on nothing but an artists imagination, it's doing most of the work required to get such good results.
      The 3D dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren't actually computer generated, they were generated by an artist using the computer as a tool. Does that seem like a reasonable nitpick?

    • @elliott7268
      @elliott7268 2 роки тому +1

      THANK YOU!

    • @amos.rand_vfx
      @amos.rand_vfx 2 роки тому +2

      @@the_omg3242 Hi, please don't say that the transparency maps are generated by the computer. Most of the time each frame has been manually masked by the visual effects artist. The difference between compositing and CGI is that CGI is completely rendered by the computer, but compositing is the manipulation of footage you already have.

  • @sneham-jo3wk
    @sneham-jo3wk 2 роки тому

    It's just magical & super talented artists.

  • @Rebelnightwolfe
    @Rebelnightwolfe 2 роки тому +2

    World renound videographer: I have no fears in Cinema!
    Multiple mirrors on set
    Okay one fear.

  • @Celine-xk6xr
    @Celine-xk6xr 2 роки тому +5

    Finally! After 5 years of wondering🤣

  • @xfloodcasual8124
    @xfloodcasual8124 2 роки тому

    My colleagues worked on the Contact shot. Bob Zemeckis is such a visionary.

  • @filosofotacio8950
    @filosofotacio8950 2 роки тому +1

    Its a cool camera trick, in the case of One Night in Soho though, it wasn't enough to cover for a good story.

  • @dekidyeuklides7400
    @dekidyeuklides7400 2 роки тому

    Thank you very, very, very much for this content..... I've been waiting for this theme a lot!!!!!!

  • @yamrez1902
    @yamrez1902 2 роки тому +3

    @ 3:21 that is an easyrig (helps with steadier handheld shots). Not a steadicam, which looks more floaty and smooth (not handheld). Otherwise still a great video!

  • @esthonjames3454
    @esthonjames3454 2 роки тому +2

    EVOLUTION OF movie mirrors.....✌️✌️

  • @aaron4820
    @aaron4820 2 роки тому

    Can you guys make a documentary on how Business Insider go from Business Insider, to providing so many super awesome videos across so many different topics.

  • @senuauwu
    @senuauwu 2 роки тому +2

    you have my curiosity with the movie of the girls and the mirrors

  • @jesse590
    @jesse590 2 роки тому

    I love behind the scene breakdowns.