closed, open. try 1

 

 This is my first experiment with a new way of finding unusual spaces.

I have decided to film some sequences, events that were projected onto a screen hidden behind the door that my lovely assistant was opening and closing as to find a new, surprising spaces.

the camera was situated just between the assistant and the doors.

 To achieve a really good effect of illusion everything must be done perfectly.

- the camera mustn't move at all, stay in the same position through all the process, some taping to the floor is highly recommended

- the setting should be the same for all of the takings as the changes in lightning are clearly visible

- the framing of the screen must be perfect and stay the same as any parts of the screen or unwanted footage is destroying the illusion

- the position of the person mustn't change at all times because is making the editing extremely difficult, if not impossible to achieve best results

- the person must begin and start the sequence from the same place, including movement of arms, reaching for the door handle or stepping back.

- looking at the example of "Frenzy", the scene of murder of Barbara Jane, where Hitchock used a trick of combining two footage, is achieved by adding one more person that would pass just in front of the camera. this gave a  possibility of suggesting that we are still in the same space, where, to be honest, we have never been, as in the first part of the scene we were on the set and in the second we are in Covent Garden..

(the trick to be used by me in a near future..)