I had no idea that they were able to green screen an entire crowd in. I'm enlightened with how expertly the creative effects team accomplished this, so well, that you couldn't tell the difference!
This type of things come from a rather LONG time ago. In fact, If I remember correctly, one of the first movies to include such a huge crowd created via CGI, controlled by an AI to give them "personality" was back when the Lord of the Rings came out. You should check the BTS. It is crazy.
I'm always so surprised by how many odd jobs there are in the film industry. Imagine telling your family "I clap in front of a green screen so that someone could then place me in a fake stadium" lmao. But honestly, this is a very cool video Insider.
Look at a the screen, pick out anything you see. Anything at all. Then realise that was somebody's job to make sure that it is there. And most likely not one person, but several people. David F sandberg, director of shazam! Has a great youtube channel breaking down the super frustrating process one has to go through during a film production
The best fake crowd ever is in the pod racing scene in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. They were literally just q-tips being blown with a hairdryer to create some movement.
Before I was small, I thought that they would hire hundreds and thousands of real people for when there’s an extremely huge audience for a drama series 😂
Maybe now you can appreciate that movies spend $30M-$300M to painstakingly help make a story come to life and that it doesn’t all just go to making rich celebrities richer.
As an editor, You'll be numb to the fact that you'll spend countless hours and thinking just for a few minutes of the project. It's about the satisfaction when your projects turns out to be what you exactly wanted or even more than what you expected. It's great
As someone who’s worked as an extra on set for a Disney movie, I can totally confirm the crowd tiling! Those shots are the most complicated and the extras are always moved around so you don’t get duplication. It’s so cool to see the other techniques they use tho!
In my country, there are movies shot in malls where people are literally watching the actors and are seen in the final shot, probably because they have no budget to hire extras or to rent the place exclusively.
@Rata Gurney It’s not as hard at it seems, because most of the crew knows what they are doing. The problem is having the right movie director and good actors. The film will also probably need to have a good budget to work on so that’s that.
They used crowd tiling in "Forrest Gump" for the scene at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. We filmed at the actual Lincoln Memorial but spent two days moving in blocks around the Reflecting Pool. Since we were waving protest signs, the director and assistant directors made sure that no one dropped one to the side, where it would disappear out of the shot. At the beginning of the filming, the crew was worried about the ducks swimming in the pool, which would have messed up the image and been expensive to remove. The extras suggested luring the ducks away with bread, so a couple of production assistants were tasked with getting bread from craft services and luring all the ducks out of the water. The area of the lawn where they were collected was later covered by a tile of the crowd. I was about 50 of that crowd of 40,000 people.
Not at all, FIFA put less than 10% of this effort in. Any given angle you can see the same model doing the same animation at the same time, it's poor at best. These guys did an awesome job on Ted Lasso so don't insult them by comparing them to EA garbage 😂
I saw a part of this movie, and was wondering. "Why is that crowd cheering so violently for so long while nothing particularly incredible is happening?" Like the audience doesn't even interact with one another. Now I know I can thank Covid.
It's more the choice of the producers and director because they decide what gets cut and how the film is cut. Tiling has been a thing for decades, so it's not new at all. But them choosing to have their spectators making that action has nothing to do with Covid.
@@jameskoplin They paid the extras for this and most other productions in the UK. It would be illegal not to in most cases. It usually pays £120 for a 12 hour day, but then there’s overtime and travel allowances etc. I didn’t work on Ted Lasso, but my agent sent me around 5 casting calls to be crowd. On another movie there must have been 250 students for most days on a 5 week shoot. Basically they spend a loooot of money and most of the time we don’t volunteer because it’s exhausting and they’re making enough money to pay us. ~*The More You Know*~
Very interesting to see how far technology has come for this to be possible. Crowds are one of those things that I’ve always wondered if they were real or fake in movies.
Glee fans look in the background of competitions they have dummies in the audience to make it feel like all the people are there and literally I’m laughing so hard
As a background actor I was apart of a film that used 300 extras. 3 day filming 18hours the last day. Each day we lost extras and we could only fill up one section of the stadium. So they had us rotate to each section. Then the 2nd day I saw they had put cardboard people in every seat...EVERY SEAT! It was a different shot so we were lower now. Just still a cool experience!
Crowd shots suck to film as BG, but 18 hours makes it worth it since you're in golden hour and get your day rate for each hour past 16. Unless you're outside Hawaii or California and either have no union or a terrible union rate, then it's not worth it. If it was Georgia, their rate is based on 12 hours, so you don't even get OT until you've worked at least 12 hours. And then some places have no union protection at all, so you aren't going to get OT at all.
I laughed so hard when the CG dude went: "OMG, THATS A SOCCER BALL IN A GOAL! IM SO FRICKING EXITED!" Me: mhm, yup. Not like your fake of anything, yup. Mhm
@@JRTIntervencion It's probably much easier to make a motion capture person look like they're yelling if the person doing the capture is yelling something. Just doing things is still the best way to make them look real.
I was in a crowd for a movie and we did several takes of the same scene but we were all moved around for each one. They then put all those takes together and they made it look like we were a big crowd. It was fun 😅
I figured the crowd would be superimposed or even CG, but I had no idea the stadium itself was CG. I love it when CG is so good don't even know you are watching CG.
When I was a kid I liked watching horror movies. So instead of banning them, my parents used to make me watch this type of videos so I get that it's not real. I didn't break the habit 🙂🙂
They we're probably just trying to mame You less scared, the reason parents ban horror movies is cause they áre scary after and not only while watching it, so they probably we're just making dure You wouldnt have nightmares and knew it was fake instead of trying to stop You from watching it
If you had told me Ted Lasso was filmed pre-pandemic I would have believed you. Never even occurred to me that you could CGI an entire stadium. This was impressive.
This is fantastic. I work with people who deliver this kind of VFX work for a living, and exactly how it gets made behind-the-scenes has been a bit of a mystery. Thanks for the thorough explainer, @Insider!
I was an extra for a couple movies in high school. We had to bring a couple sets of clothes for a volleyball game for the different team colors and they moved us around and had us switch colors based on where the shot was.
In film industry, you could be anything. Me, as storyboard artist, have hard time to explain my job to my family. The most response I got is "you just drawing and got money?" 🤣
That's cool! Is your job easy for you or is there like a harder part? How much $ do you earn? Sorry for the questions, you're welcome not to answer them 😁
@@Harry-rh9qc it's fun and challenging at the same time. Not gonna say it's easy job because most of it, the storyboarder has to be creative to figure out the shot or visualize from the director's treatment like the size of the shot. It's fast paced work, gotta be quick but also need to be accurate 😂 so far, I get enough paid since I've been doing it quiet long (4 years). At least, I could survive after all the chaotic 2020. 🤗
I remember watching the show with my parents and they wondered how they filmed the crowd during COVID. For some reason, I didn’t even bother to question it like I don’t know what was I thinking “oh they must’ve time traveled duh”
By the way, whenever you see people dancing in a scene, unless it’s a music video or the like, there’s actually no music playing. Usually we will play whatever tune is going in the scene just before the Director calls action so the actors can get the tempo and feel of the tune approximately right, but if you really watch, no one is really on the beat.
I wonder for the tiling crowd thing if they could just do one section then have the extras just change their shirt or top somehow wether it’s taking off or putting on a jacket or changing their shirt, then move to the next section and it’d look like a new crowd lol. It’d be quick I would think.
@@flitsertheo because it's 2022 where you can't having a party. Except you ready for the consequence ... your partner got positive before you make her positive.
@@MatRDR are you saying this sarcastically and if you are go and make a single animated scene not a whole movie just one scene of a digital object integrated in real footage and some green screen actors. And come back lets see if you are still a dick. And if you were being sarcastic then why tf are you being sarcastic in this situation lmao.
@@dyfx9788 this was sarcasm. I'm an aspiring vfx artist. For me the comment was implying that somehow it required less effort to not use real people and just use compositing and cgi.
