Not just for pulling it off but also to come up with the ideas and conceptualizing it! Computer-control camera trick reminds me of they way they shot Kevin Kline's scenes in Dave since he was playing two characters who were the doppelganger of each other.
Man that’s so much work for what seems like a simple shot, sometimes you wonder why they don’t do the shot another way. The effort that goes into movies is remarkable.
Definitely way more goes into this than I thought! For some movies and scenes, the effort seems totally worth it. In others, was that mirror shot really necessary? Sometimes it seems nothing is lost without it.
Maybe because they practice so that they find out new ways of shooting that, you know, might turn out useful for the fake news that the government puts on our “news”… 😂
I always love learning this stuff because you then realize how much with the entire crew of a movie does so yea, I see why they make so much money.. They deserve it!!
Eh they do not make much money at all, many artists are underpaid and overworked! Sure, movies make millions of dollars, but the artists working on them still only make a minimum wage sadly.
@@stanleysmith4563 I think she was referring to the people behind the scenes like CGI specialists and Special FX people, not the actors. The actors and Director make the most money from films aside from the production company itself.
@@creativekaii Like any business it's based on responsibility, demand and investment. Producers make the most because they finance the movie, they also have the most to lose in terms of money. Directors make a lot as they have a huge responsibility and their creative vision is important and often unique, their careers are also dependent on successful movies. Actors get a lot based on denamnd, a famous actor will sell the movie and can therefor demand high pay. Except for some well known DOPs, VFXsupervisors and other key functions, most of the other roles are easily replacable just like the average McDonalds worker. Not because they aren't insanely talented artists, but just by the fact that there are enough talended artist to willingly take their place if they say no.
The camera work and choreography in SOHO in that nightclub scene are amazing. there are other videos on YT showing how the swapping of dance partners was done ENTIRELY in-camera in a single take with NO CGI tricks
Another great piece of cinematic trickery can be found in THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS! There's a ballroom sequence in which the 3 main characters dance with each other to escape a room full of vampires. A mirror covering one of the walls exposes the living characters to the vampires in a crazy trick shot. A duplicate set was built to look like the ballroon's reflection. Three stunt people were dressed to look like the main actors and mimic their dancing. Thus, creating the illusion that the vampires in the room had no reflection! Great sequence to watch...
I was the Compositing supervisor for Black Swan, and those mirror shots, were a big pain. But in the end it was incredible work done by the artist that I worked with.
The mirror scene from the film Citizen Kane was much more iconic as it featured two mirrors set opposite each other,creating an infinity effect,with no camera visible.
Next time I watch ‘Last Night in Soho’ I’ll definitely be paying more attention to those scenes . That movie was one of my favorites to come out of 2021 , it’s original as well . Shout out Edgar Wright.
I think its becuase it's subtle..I have always been amazed by the shot in Contact. But it happens so quickly during a dramatic moment, ost folks don't even register it.
If you haven't actually worked in film or stopped to think about the process a lot of people don't realize the amount of effort behind it. There are lots of little things like this that need to be considered while shooting. Behind the scenes videos are so fascinating and really help you appreciate the work
This is really cool. I had a feeling some of it was CGI in later years. That shot they did in Contact of the girl running down the hallway then having her reflection in the mirror was very impressive.
At 3:22 that’s not a steadycam. It’s an easyrig. At 4:29 that is a steadycam. For whoever wants to know 😊 Very nice explanation of mirrorshots besides that!! ❤️🙌
Amazing video! Just a very small note, at 3:19 when talking about a steadicam you're actually showing an "EasyRig" which is used on shots that still want a handheld look instead of the smooth "floating camera" movement provided by a steadicam system :)
The video editing on this video is supreme. Thank you for your skill and your taste in not bloating everything with flashy effects and transitions just for the sake of them being there. The narrator is calm, professional and informative and unlike many other videos where script and video are mismatched severely, the script matches the video perfectly, allowing for a good understanding of the message. This, is what quality content looks like. Thank you!
The opening scene in Peggy Sue Got Married has one of the best uses of a duplicated-set mirror scene ever, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Kathleen Turner had to face a body double who mirrored her actions exactly while she put on makeup. It’s so well done I never noticed it was a different actress until decades later when I read it somewhere. I’m really surprised they didn’t reference it in this video!
We're living during the biggest pandemic since the Spanish Flu, of course it flopped. The only movie in 2021 I risked my health for was Spiderman (lifelong Spidey fan), but that was after my second vaccine shot, with an n95 mask, in a tiny movie theater (in a quite small city) that didn't even have 3D capabilities and whose biggest salon couldn't even seat 100 people when full, and I went to see it there after a week of it already running so in total we were maybe eight people spread out over the whole salon. I am really hoping there will be reruns of this movie in a few years, because I really want to see it in 3D if possible. Which is what I would have done in November (watch it in 3D on a gigantic screen) if safety had not been a concern. The worst of the pandemic is over in the west, especially with most of the populations being fully vaccinated plus a booster and omnicron going after your lungs less than delta, but I wouldn't expect movie-goers to have returned fully to their old habits until 2023.
Everyone always talks about the directors and the actors when talking about movies. But the SFX crew and artists are the real stars for me. Because at the end of the day they're the ones that bring the shots to life.
Soho regarding to this mirror thing is astonishing, amazing made and acted . That movie deserves more credit . All Anya movie and and that director movies too .
What's so cool about these types of "how did they do it?" types of shots, is the magic element if it all. Discovering the method used in the movie or even coming up with your own unique way of accomplishing the same feat is a lot like watching a magician reveal his tricks. Like a veil is lifted, and all of a sudden you can see behind the mirror.
Id never give this a thought in movies but turns out it can be a complicated process but something movie makers work with all the time i guess. Thanks insider, you have a new sub
I think you need to be clearer about your definitions. When you say CG, its not always CG (i.e. computer generated), for the most part its more compsiting (i.e. splicing multiple real shots together) as opposed to creating the shot digitally on a computer (CG). This is why we have so many people just calling everything CG, when in fact a lot of footage is still real, its just cut together from separate shots (compositing) and wasn't created digitally. You can do compsiting purely with real film without the need for a computer, just because the process has moved onto computers doesn't suddenly make it CG, otherwise you might as well just say that any footage captured digitally rather than on film is CG.
Years ago I ran into Linda Hamilton in a Toronto Starbucks and was having a nice chat with her before I recognized her. Could not have been nicer. She was with her twin, which made the experience twice as surreal.
It takes the actor to be very talented to achieve all of this. Everyone works as a team from the talent, to the cameraman, ultimately to the production editor. I looooovvveee anything that has to do with production so this is very interesting to me!!! The Soho movie looks really good! I'm gonna watch it!
I'm reminded in the TV show "Sliders": With locking camera movements, the scene in the first episode when Quinn meets his slider-self from another Earth, it "only" took about two weeks to get the scene and its interactions. But the guy who played the singer "Cryin' Man' has a real life twin brother and they brought him in many times for scenes with the two interacting (I never knew that at the time it was airing on TV).
Interesting. Thanks. One thing about "one-way mirrors", though . . . They're actually just half-silvered, and there is no front or back. If the viewer is on the well-illuminated side, then they see their reflection. If you're on the dark side, then your dark reflection is there, it's just washed out by the bright image on the other side of the glass. You could flip the mirror around, and it would make no difference. The bright side dominates both sides.
Shifting the lens wasn't mentioned. While it's a famous trick, I couldn't quickly find an example in a big budget movie. I can see several reasons why it's not popular from usability concerns to matching with other lenses.
This first time I noticed a “mirror trick” in a movie was 1986’s “Peggy Sue Got Married.” The last scene in the hospital has a pull back where you can see everyone’s reflection. I realized it was a reverse hospital room with a stand in actor seen from behind as their movements didn’t quite match.
Just a little nitpick here, multiple times they reference swapping out the background and replacing mirrors with other takes as CG, this is really just good compositing, and nothing in the shot is computer generated.
Except that they use a computer to remove the original background and paste in new sections of each frame. The computer also generates the transparency maps used to select the parts they want to composite and tracks those areas from frame to frame. While the computer may not be rendering scenes based on nothing but an artists imagination, it's doing most of the work required to get such good results. The 3D dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren't actually computer generated, they were generated by an artist using the computer as a tool. Does that seem like a reasonable nitpick?
@@the_omg3242 Hi, please don't say that the transparency maps are generated by the computer. Most of the time each frame has been manually masked by the visual effects artist. The difference between compositing and CGI is that CGI is completely rendered by the computer, but compositing is the manipulation of footage you already have.
