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I make short films. I like them to look as crisp as an Edgar Wright edit. That primarily involves close shots with a swift pan in and pan out. Cut together, it looks great; energetic, snappy, often for impressive comedic effect.
However, the forethought to capture every shot with an appropriate pan
requires storyboarding or an autistic mind. Especially if you're just winging it with your mates.
The Edgar Wipe is a movie editing transition that simulates a swift pan, in the direction of your choice, generating uncaptured pixels based on the footage you have caught.
And dogs *can* look up.
Perfect example
http://www.youtube....outube_gdata_player
Loads of cuts using a swift pan. [theleopard, Aug 19 2011]
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of course dogs can look up - I thought it was penguins that fell over! |
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no, it's turkeys that drown. |
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I imagine that this could be generated as a script in After Effects, with the uncaptured pixels being sourced from a library of approximately matching images. Certainly seems like quite a good idea to me, and therefore not really halfbaked at all. Don't know if you take that as a compliment? [theleopard], but have this croissant while you consider the matter - fast wipes to plate of crumbs. |
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Cheers [xenzag], I do indeed. |
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//fast wipes to plate of crumbs// |
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Funnily enough, I made a surf movie that had that
exact shot, chronicling our refueling at the end of a
hard day's tubular action, complete with swift tea-
making and bacon-and-egg-roll consumption. |
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Edgar Wright fan sinced 'Spaced', so I'm familiar with the
technique,
but I've failed to spot the invention here. It seems more
like advocacy. |
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The invention is for a transition that you can render
on home movies, that automatically generates
uncaptured, likely pixels off-screen in order to
simulate the swift panning effect. That way you can
recreate the effect without having to remember to
story-board everything when shooting, including
every shot's pan entry and pan exit. |
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I bet you could sell that to Edgar Wright, considering the
trouble he goes through to get it perfect. |
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PS: Wright himself credits Martin Scorcese with
developing/inspiring that technique and a couple of
Wright's other favorites. It's on the 'Hot Fuzz' director
commentary. |
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Yeah, come to think of it, there's subtler
applications of it in Goodfellas, if I recall correctly. |
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//I bet you could sell that to Edgar Wright // |
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