Uli Plank wrote:Thanks again, Kurt!
Yes, the depth map feature got excellent with recent iPhones, but I have to warn filmmakers that this applies to photography only. It looks far worse in video on critical edges, like hair. You can see that even on a single frame, and motion makes things worse.
For Chrissake… Uli.
If using a fair haired girl with long hair waving in the wind is not the best idea, then don’t! Use a bald guy instead? If the story is about flea ridden mutts, it probably doesn't matter anyway.
Is the green screen technique a universal no-go zone, just because it is less than ideal, when a guy wears a green shirt? Why not give the bald bloke a red bandana with matching shirt, big golden earrings, cover for one eye, and call him a pirate? Nobody is splitting hairs on that scene.
In some cases, you just have to use “Gehirnschmalz” (burn some “brain lard”).
Find better angles, don’t use long haired girls in windy environments in closeups. Show her beautiful legs instead (and if you mention hair anywhere near her in that situation, your remaining days on earth will surely be limited
The ad perpetuum “will not work” argument based on unique cases, would have made Hitchcocks “Birds” impossible from the start. Unless Hitchcock found a way to do the impossible anyway, or a way around an immovable obstacle. He did. We got “Birds”.
Think „out-of-the-box”, where there are no walls, only pitfalls, that - maybe - can be circumvented.
I’m taking a similar route. What is possible? What will work? In what light? Etc. And so on.
I’m testing, what CAN be done TODAY, and I love it.
Currently playing (ahem: evaluating). Certainly using some parts of the added experience in future edits, where appropriate and possible. No need screaming “made on iPhone” either. Just like poets seldom placed a prominent “written on IBM Selectric”, ball pen, goose feather, whatever, anywhere near their newest opus. Audience couldn't care less, if the result is done right.
Could - maybe - do completely without a focus puller in some cases, and use the money saved on even better scripts. Or higher profits (if that's your aim). If the script later is altered, and the focus somehow must work from back to front instead of front to back, no problem (even if the main actor has died in the meantime
Wouldn’t that be something? For the 99% of the "producers", that are not part of the "Arri toting elite" or makers of beauty product commercials. Don't forget to look at the bright side!
We surely live in interesting times.
Regards and remember to also have a lot of fun from time to time