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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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!
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.
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.
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 .
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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!
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.
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.
@ 3:21 that is an easyrig (helps with steadier handheld shots). Not a steadicam, which looks more floaty and smooth (not handheld). Otherwise still a great video!
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.
This was really interesting just wished videos like this, would explain how it is someone gets into this line of work....same with prop masters, stand ins, or even casting directors. They seem like such cool jobs to have, but it's really not something you go to school for. There's no "casting" degrees, so really curious how people end up in that position.
The T2 scene can only be seen in the extended versions of the movie. Which unfortunately seems to only be available in physical releases of the movie - gotta crack out the LaserDisc :) . The scene happens after they rescue Sarah from the hospital and are getting patched up at the gas station garage. John and Sarah take the main processor out of the T-800 to enable “learning” mode. Sarah almost smashes the chip but John talks her out of it.
Can you guys make a documentary on how Business Insider go from Business Insider, to providing so many super awesome videos across so many different topics.
I’m gonna be making a short film later this year and I had an idea for one of the shots but it involved looking into a mirror. This video will help me figure out how to shoot it.
These people are hella talented! Thanks insider for making such interesting videos!
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.
Merci France
frrr
This is why I love movies. Not just for the celebrities in them, but *how* the movies are actually made.
How certain effects are achieved...how camera angles are obtained...that is my favorite thing about them.
You love movies because of the celebrities? That's terribly shallow, don't you think?
He said he also loves the movies for the cinematic work and how everything comes out obviously you ain't a movie buff @@mammontustado9680
@@mammontustado9680 keyword, he said NOT JUST FOR CELEBRITIES, really should’ve payed attention to that, don’t you think?
@@mammontustado9680 half of the world loves movies because of the actors. Are you living under a rock?
I totally wonder why I never questions to my self how mirror shots was made. This is so mind-blowing
You never questioned the mirror shots because they were done so perfectly, you didn't even think about it. That's how it should be.
Right? I never even noticed.
@@dennisanderson3895 yeep and that's what even more amazing
I always ask myself but my final conclusion was CGI and use of hidden cameras. Didn't know about the double mirror and window trick.
Yea! It always looks so natural!!!
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.
it's art
in a good way
I was thinking the same thing.
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.
Now you're thinking as a producer 😂
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”… 😂
Fun fact: the twins who take the actresses' coats in the Last Night In Soho shot are the actors who played the Weasley twins in Harry Potter.
thank god i was looking for this comment because i looked at their faces and was like “??????? is that james and oliver phelps?”
They kind of buried the lead on that shot
@@AllySheehan it is in their IMDb credits. I just checked
@@BubbaCoop you're right!
damn! the disrespect
The coolest part was the last note about covering blind spots and using those digital re-timing tools to alter the frame rate. Wow.
To alter the movements of *individual* background folks! I thought, "They can DO that?" :-O
@@dennisanderson3895 right??? An obsessive directors dream
I know!! That blew my mind!
Cameraman is the most advance human species
imagine trying to write these scenes and explain what you mean..
Theoretical physicists are no slouch, either.
Cinnamontographer
They’re also immortal!
Lol
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.
@@RobbertScholten some movies make billions wat r u even saying dat dey dont make enough money? Actors make blood money
@@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.
A fine group of passionate people trying to create masterpieces. They could've just as well removed the mirror scene.
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...
Dracula dead and loving it!!
@@amberwitteman4462 Ah yes, that great one-upsmansip between Leslie Nielsen and Mel Brooks was classic. And you know who got the last word in...
I guess that's where they got the scene from van helsing..they basically stole it...or vise- versa
They use the same trick in the musical version (Tanz der Vampire) too! Although it's much more choreographed and during the gay scene
@@onepman Fearless Vampire Killers is way older.
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
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.
Awesome movie, good job dude!
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.
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.
Double sided mirror
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.
How is this movie not getting recognition for its groundbreaking vfx work?
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.
@@meatwax Yeah I agree
Which one
@@ImaPizzaK The one that is shown in this video. The girl running.
@@Leprutz Obviously is in the video you didn't have to add that in
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!! ❤️🙌
👍
I was about to post the same thing. Glad I checked. Of course, Steadicam is likely to join kleenex and xerox as a generic noun eventually.
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 :)
Oh, I see on 4:27 you do show a steadicam, nice!
This video makes me appreciate movies, that I liked beforehand, even more.
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!
Too far back for them.
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!
I can't wait till i make my own movies one day!! This is so inspiring!! I remember practicing not getting my phone to be seen in mirrors :D
This is the type of thing you never think of when you watch movies but is very interesting to learn
That one shot from Contact is brilliant and probably groundbreaking for the time.
Woah, I'm lost. The attention and effort to detail is what makes this movie industry the best on the planet
This feels like true old school movie magic. So much skill needed to create the illusion of actual mirrors I never thought about until now. Crazy.
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.
Such a talent to have! That's what makes these movies so great! Huge props to the crew on these movies!
Hear Hear! The crew members are too overlooked - but *they* are the ones who really "make the magic" of the movie!
It's always incredible to see how movies are made, all those techniques and skills
Was really hoping you'd include the Spike Jonze KENZO ad. Iconic use of mirrors that still baffles me
5:13 FunFact: Those are the Weasley Twins from Harry Potter.
The sucker punch is still one of my faves tho, and Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void also has a cool mirror scene
Gaspar Noe is incredible. His mastery and innovation with film making is rivaled only by the intensity of the subject matter
Incredible. Now I need to watch Last Night in Soho. But I like how the iconic shot in Terminator 2 is still recognized.
2:21 actually getting a clean plate from production. That's cute.
Haha yes I feel your pain
The camerawork for Contact @3:05, was really pivotal. That scenes stuck in my mind after leaving the theatre 🎭. The film itself 📽️.... EPIC!!!
im soo mad at people for flopping last night in soho in box office, its such a well made movie
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.
I’m always amazed at these types of mirror shots. It’s great knowing how artists create these shots but still amazing
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 .
I love these behind the scenes VFX videos. Keep 'em coming
That Contact shot is brilliant! Super creative and engrossing. Wow
I'm so glad this interest of mine from long ago is getting recognition
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
After watching this I can see why I would have enjoyed working behind the scenes of movies rather in front of the camera! This was such a cool video!
Fascinating! Something I often wondered about and am even more impressed now that I've seen some of the tricks. Thanks!
This was actually way cooler than I expected
There's a mirror shot in "To Live and Die in LA" with Willem Dafoe that's incredible. Disappointed it wasn't in here.
I'm always amazed at these details in movies!!
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.
VFX artists are heavy underrated
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.
Yay thank you for someone finally acknowledging this and properly explaining it to everyone!
@@amos.rand_vfx So many butthurt compositors in this comment section. 😁
This always bugged me! I never knew how they filmed a mirror scene without the camera being in it! Now my mind is at ease
definitely makes me even more attentive to mirror scenes. I never thought this much about them :O
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.
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.
THANK YOU for this video!!! How they shot late night in soho has driven me crazy
I never asked that question before but now I’m amazed!
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).
Cinematography/Filmography is one of my absolute favorite things in existence.
This is only coming as old news to me thanks to the incredible work done by Paul E.T in his mirror video essay.
Absolutely fascinating video. So much ingenuity and effort and all designed to completely invisible and so unappreciated.
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 have been wondering this for years! Now i know and thank you for sharing. :)
I could watch content like this FOR HOURS.
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.
Contact is one of my favourite films of all time, and I always wondered how they did the mirror shot!
That Contact shot is just astonishingly cool…
I think this video proves even more point why the people behind the movies are just as legendary as the actors
Digital Retiming of components within frame,,,,?? WOW. That was today's "Brain Exploder". Thanks for the knowledge.
Brilliant!
Nice bit of thematic mirroring using shots featuring Jena Malone as the subject for one of the best examples (Contact) and the worst (Suckerpunch)
Wow finally I can go to sleep peacefully!! Mirror shots are brilliant and requires top level skills
I'm more fascinated by how cameras and wires are removed. I'll have to find a video that explains that.
I've always wondered about this!
Contact was an amazing movie. Love re-watching it...
These persons are so creative !!
I've always wondered how this was done. Amazing how filmmakers can do such a superb job!
That Contact cabinet mirror scene when I first saw was just mind blowing
Didn't know mirrors has so much work until now , what a challenge !
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?
THANK YOU!
@@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.
It’s incredible how much goes into filmmaking
@ 3:21 that is an easyrig (helps with steadier handheld shots). Not a steadicam, which looks more floaty and smooth (not handheld). Otherwise still a great video!
1:29 Alan Becker moment
La Haine from 1995 is a great movie.
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.
these artists are very perfectionists!
This was really interesting just wished videos like this, would explain how it is someone gets into this line of work....same with prop masters, stand ins, or even casting directors. They seem like such cool jobs to have, but it's really not something you go to school for. There's no "casting" degrees, so really curious how people end up in that position.
I was just thinking about that scene from Contact and here it is!
Finally! After 5 years of wondering🤣
The T2 scene can only be seen in the extended versions of the movie. Which unfortunately seems to only be available in physical releases of the movie - gotta crack out the LaserDisc :) . The scene happens after they rescue Sarah from the hospital and are getting patched up at the gas station garage. John and Sarah take the main processor out of the T-800 to enable “learning” mode. Sarah almost smashes the chip but John talks her out of it.
Such amazing how all of this works. It all feels like an illusion of the mind
This is the kinda subtle stuff CGI SHOULD be used for. Not making the whole movie look like unfeeling plastic
I’m a film student I have never even thought about the fact that you have to shoot a reflection without showing the reflection of the camera until now
Can you guys make a documentary on how Business Insider go from Business Insider, to providing so many super awesome videos across so many different topics.
I’m gonna be making a short film later this year and I had an idea for one of the shots but it involved looking into a mirror. This video will help me figure out how to shoot it.
That was a very good and informative video! Thank you so much! I truly enjoy movies BTS (behind the scenes) stuff like this. Keep them coming please
I work in TV and film, mostly asa background actor; and I have lots of experience on set. But it still amazes me to see behind the scene!
5:14 This isn't VFX, that's just the Weasley twins doing magic
I love this kind of inside information! (Hated the music, though, once I noticed it at the very end...)
I love behind the scene breakdowns.
no you are wrong, The camera man has mastered the art of standing so still that he attains invisibility
Makes you wonder how Candyman came to life.