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Teleportation effects, as you do

September 04, 2012 by Russell Gawthorpe in Filmmaking

I've been screwing around in Final Cut again. This time, I've whipped up a fairly craptacular Star Trek-style teleporter effect. Ingredients:

  • Scrunched up tin-foil waved in front of the camera to create shiny particles
  • Footage of myself wandering around the back yard like an idiot, hoping the neighbours don't look over the fence
  • A mask of my shape, used to isolate the shiny particles to only appear where I'm standing
  • A sound effect created in GarageBand by layering all sorts of instruments and pitchbending them in directions they don't want to be bent
  • An insert shot of my iPhone with a Star Trek LCARS graphic on it, with some beepy sound effects

I had plans to make more of these. We'll see. For now, enjoy.

(Also, I'm aware that the iPhone's interface appears when I press the buttons. It was just an image stored in my gallery. Next time, I'll motion track a screen replacement.)

 

September 04, 2012 /Russell Gawthorpe
Filmmaking, I shouldn't make movies, iPhone, Star Trek, Technology, teleporter, Visual effects
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