| Here, the dead
William (Jonathan Boatwright) watches his living self struggle with a
broken ornament. The effect was created with two shots.
The plates were shot without benefit of green screen
so all composite edges were hand-animated rotoscope splines.
TRIO:
For
this shot, the distant man in the doorway was actually layered over the
foreground couple/room shot and masks animated to reveal the couple
beneath the doorway man.
A
partly-cloudy day complicates the compositing since the scene varies in
brightness and balance between takes. Some careful color
correction compensates.
DUO:
First, a plate of the dead William at left was shot with
a stand-in to serve as an eyeline focus. The stand-in also
provided shadows across the actor during the take - especially as he
moves away from Jonathan at the end.
For the second plate, the beats of Jonathan's first
performance were timed with a stopwatch and his performance at the right
of this frame directed by me.
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