In-Camera Transformation Effect
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Күн бұрынFor the month of October RocketJump FRIGHT School releases spooky, horror-themed filmmaking tutorials!
This week, we're recreating a famous special effect done by director Rouben Mamoulian and DP Karl Struss in the 1931 adaptation of "Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde."
Using contrasting colors in our lighting and makeup, while shooting in black and white, we're able to create the spooky transformation effect in-camera, without any computer generated VFX.
Mamoulian and Struss used specially-made filters of colored glass, but here we'll show you a simple way to recreate the effect with lighting gels, using the same principles. If you only have one light, you can try experimenting with overlapping gels!
Special Thanks to our makeup artist Taylor Berez!
Did you try out this effect? We wanna see it! Post your work on our forums!
bit.ly/RJFS_transform
If you'd like to know more, you can read an interview with Rouben Mamoulian where he discusses the effect in the book "The Celluloid Muse" by Charles Higham.
Music:
"Concerto per viola ed orchoestra" (1983)
Krzysztof Pednerecki
"Capriccio per oboe e 11 archi" (1965)
Krzysztof Pednerecki
"Drei Stucke im alten Stil fur Streichorchester - I Aria"
Krzysztof Pednerecki
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@ReverendAnthony 7 жыл бұрын
The best thing about this video is just how consistently steady my hands were, all the time
@aoshaw 7 жыл бұрын
Well done Anthony! haha
@folkwhore8322 4 жыл бұрын
Lmao what did you do in this
@kurtlindner 7 жыл бұрын
Oscars! Oscars for everyone!
@MarcoDowny 7 жыл бұрын
That is indeed an awesome in-camera effect ! I also loved last year blood recipes, I still have it bookmarked in case ahah Hope you'll keep these video coming all october !
@rustygazes256 Жыл бұрын
The girl volunteer had me lol 😂😂😂 so funny. Uuuygghh😂
@TMWriting 7 жыл бұрын
That is genuinely one of the coolest things I have ever seen
@aoshaw 7 жыл бұрын
Great job Cherish & Joey for modelling and acting!
@jmoore4674 7 жыл бұрын
Great job guys! It looks really cool!
@alyssumbonaventure7921 7 жыл бұрын
I knew this trick primarily from the Twilight Zone episode "Long Live Walter Jameson" (season 1, episode 24). However, the lights used for that sequence went from red to green. I don't know how much a difference that selection makes. Anyway, love your videos. Keep it up, and best wishes, everyone!
@fepompeo 7 жыл бұрын
This is amazing!!!
@perpetualjon 7 жыл бұрын
Really cool effect!!
@joaolacerda5748 7 жыл бұрын
Looks great
@thyinstead 7 жыл бұрын
the last time i was this early rocketjump was still freddiew
@MrMaffy96 7 жыл бұрын
*clap
@Miniac 7 жыл бұрын
This is RocketJump Film School, not Rocket Jump. Take your edgy comment to their other channel, where I'm sure it'll be ignored just like this one.
@hocadidilyocuttCAP 7 жыл бұрын
I sense intense levels of happiness and acceptance.
@thyinstead 7 жыл бұрын
this, my friend, is what you call a joke. i did in no way meant to offend
@Miniac 7 жыл бұрын
alright
@libertines24 7 жыл бұрын
I think it worked better with the blue make up for some reason.
@LaneCarter 7 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you guys had some fun while dubbing this...
@danielacordiano5794 5 жыл бұрын
AMAZING VIDEO!! Thanks for the info, I was searching the effect for a makeup class
@jacenk 7 жыл бұрын
the VO is the best
@misterwinkybluff5930 4 жыл бұрын
0:39 Wouldn’t you have chosen those because they are two alpha channels (RGB)? For example, would it still work with say pink and green or orange and purple?
@eiden_ 7 жыл бұрын
This is ingenious and probably blew people away in 1931!! Also, those silly transformation faces...
@eviltwin2322 7 жыл бұрын
I suppose another way to achieve this would be to keep the lighting constant and split your video into the RGB channels in post, then dissolve between the red and blue (or red and green) passes. Anybody tried it that way?
@80sviewer 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder how the effect would work with more obvious make up and using dimmer switches on the colored lights to fade the effect in and put.
@cakebaker9008 7 жыл бұрын
This month could you guys do a video on how to make the vertigo camera angle.
@SDWorksYT 7 жыл бұрын
Its pretty easy.
@cakebaker9008 7 жыл бұрын
Oh. Did'n't even research how to do it. I'm lazy.
@EmriProductions 7 жыл бұрын
Not big difference.. It's not simplier to do in post? :D
@leonclementsbeall2562 7 жыл бұрын
they made the makeup too subtle
@shelleynobleart 7 жыл бұрын
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this trick. It was a treat.
@nineteenfortyeight6762 4 ай бұрын
Awesome acting 😂
@edwardhitten2678 7 жыл бұрын
And what about fluorescent light?
@marwanatallah8888 3 жыл бұрын
Thats how your eye doctor tests for lazy eye. They uses red and green glasses, one color for each eye.
@chargelisontour7683 7 жыл бұрын
I love you
@ronsonhuynh 7 жыл бұрын
me 2
@isaiahgalarza3112 Жыл бұрын
What is this effect actually called, though?
@trollem69 3 жыл бұрын
Filmmakers back then were way more creative. Nowadays they would just use CGI to do that effect. I think CGI should only be used when u cant do the FX practically. CGi should be used to enhance the FX or to enhance the story you're trying to tell.
@dyip-vb1wl 2 жыл бұрын
wat
@p21N123 7 жыл бұрын
How can we get the same effect in color ?
@misterwinkybluff5930 4 жыл бұрын
Not possible with this particular technique. The main reason it works is _because_ it’s in B&W
@KellyTaylor23 4 жыл бұрын
I think you could make it work if the lighting for the scene was predominantly red, then changed to blue. You wouldn't be able to hide the light change, but it could still be interesting.
@MrMaffy96 7 жыл бұрын
Am I the only who doesn't see any difference?
@tophersampson9133 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, probably. It is pretty obvious.
@daisyhinojosa23 4 жыл бұрын
Damn I wonder how the dude came up with this technique!!
@kaijeske7325 4 жыл бұрын
That was also my first thought. But imagine this situation: the existing technic just films black n white. the make up is in color, like you usually see and use it. finally you recognize, that not every stroke of the make up is visible, depending what light is switched on. In other words, as modern cinematographer, we hardly experience those effects due to the cameras are able to show everything we can see. In our days we could maybe think about using infrared light for simular effects, but in color. Because we can`t see this, but some cameras (those without an infrared filter-surface on the sensor) sees it. Something which falls in my mind is the in camera way to blur the backround of an image whitin a take by opening the aperture while using an varable ND automatic. When the objekt isnt moving that fast, it could also work with an auto- shutter speed. (well, i might try that tomorrow. :D )
@rodrigocuri6206 5 жыл бұрын
but there is another reflector besides the blue and the red one? I mean, a white light, colorless reflector?
@sorartificial 2 жыл бұрын
this only works on black and white
@redinbernado8081 7 жыл бұрын
hey this is a new thing for me
@aoshaw 7 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the RJFS!
@redinbernado8081 7 жыл бұрын
Thnk u.... expct more from your teammm....
@aoshaw 7 жыл бұрын
Just having a quick look at your channel, I saw you made a pretty cool short! You may benefit with any future videos by checking out discuss.rocketjump.com The forums have a section dedicated to the RJFS, where you can put any questions that aren't covered here to the people you saw in the video themselves, and post your own videos for constructive critique. I hope you continue to find this all helpfull!
@fadecomic 7 жыл бұрын
Didn't they use the same trick years before Jekyll and Hyde in the silent Passion of the Christ to heal lepers' wounds?
@fadecomic 7 жыл бұрын
Ah, thanks. That's cool--I didn't realize it was the same person.
@BattyNos1922 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is an old stage trick 'modernized' for cinema.
@vidimur1977 6 жыл бұрын
No. It was used in silent Ben Hur (1925), where one of the directors of photography was Karl Struss, the same cinematographer that directed the photography in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1931. Struss invented this trick.
@mraybeck 6 жыл бұрын
Too dark to start with, can barely see any transformation.
@sirnostuc9714 7 жыл бұрын
interesting. but I think it's easier in post. (sry for my bad english)
@Jokker88 7 жыл бұрын
Well another way to do it is instead of adjusting the lights, use a constant white light and shoot color RAW and adjust the white balance -> black&white conversion in post.
@ivanstroganov5458 7 жыл бұрын
sir nostuc its really not.. unless your shot and actor is super static the (worst case 3D-)tracking and rotoscoping make it a pain in the ass
@ProLv56Gamer 7 жыл бұрын
I pee sometimes.
@SDWorksYT 7 жыл бұрын
I thought you never peed.
@spixe22 6 жыл бұрын
catch like
@SHMULIKVI 7 жыл бұрын
i dont see anything...
@baxterturnham9306 2 жыл бұрын
I thought your scene was too dark, and your make-up wasn't bold enough to really show up, as it did in the original films
@chuckberry6650 7 жыл бұрын
1
@ronsonhuynh 7 жыл бұрын
2nd
@shookings 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Reddit!
@pupusaslordking5617 2 жыл бұрын
classic producer who didnt wanna hire a real actor
@SwarnajeetSinghGyani 4 жыл бұрын
Copied from Octopus movie search for movie scene
@openyuheyeby8674 3 жыл бұрын
Why couldn't they just show the illusion without that terrible acting
@mssmssmssmss 2 жыл бұрын
I liked it! It was fun to copy the Oscar winning performance by Fredric March -- I just watched the original.
@umeshshantarampawar 2 жыл бұрын
That's the worst piece of acting I have ever witnessed
@cdbaxul4726 2 жыл бұрын
Great effect but man you found the worst actor in LA for this.
@infera1 7 жыл бұрын
cringy as hell...
@SDWorksYT 7 жыл бұрын
True.
@shockymedia1939 7 жыл бұрын
infera1 jesus...
@randomuser6064 2 жыл бұрын
Not even as good as the Movie
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