It’s the inevitable moment when your client says: In fact, you’ll know you’ve matured as an Editor, Colorist or Visual Effects pro when this ‘worst nightmare’ stops haunting you.
I call this misdirection: Motivated Key Framing This Insight continues with the notion of Motivated Key Framing but layers a creative artist’s worst nightmare In my previous Insight on Scarlett’s Revenge, I showed you a long tracking shot where I used multiple elements to help hide my keyframing misdirection.
If you hide your keyframes during an on-screen action, even if your audience (in our case: the director, producer or DP) knows you’re making a move-they still can’t see that the move is artificial. Keyframing color correction moves is best executed like a magician’s misdirection And even if you know what I’m doing and looking for it, I only need to grab your attention for a split second-and you’ve missed the moment. Why does the audience need to be misdirected? Because the moment when I, as a magician, am flipping the card over… that moment is in full sight of the audience. But the key to that trick: Getting the audience to look someplace else at a precise moment You pick a card and the magician shuffles the deck, guesses wrongly a few times and then finds your card face-up in the deck.Įxecuting the trick is very easy – once you’ve got decent card-handling skills. The trick itself? It’s one you’ve seen many times. I had also honed my card handling skills to the point I could shuffle a card 5 deep into a deck and keep track of it. Following the advice of about a half-dozen magic books, I developed a patter for this trick. I had been working on it for months, at home.
I learned this first-hand in 8th grade when I performed my first card trick in public. Tutorials / How to use the Layer Mixer as a Switch in DaVinci Resolve How to handle the ‘Show Me Something’ Client Request Plus: Using Resolve’s ‘Layer Mixer’ as a ‘Look Switch’ Misdirection is the stock-and-trade of being a magician
0 kommentar(er)
