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benhaus

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Mar 14, 2007 13:04

Here's my latest "fun" project that turned out to be more painstaking than "fun". It's a shot-for-shot remake of the car ride scene from the film Se7en. We started shooting this on green screen in a garage last summer.. and i finally finished it this week. It took 1 day to saw and fit the metal grate inside the car, and 1 day of shooting. I cut it ( Read more... )

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beckflower March 14 2007, 18:17:34 UTC

Oh you mean I don't get to watch you editing this for hours at a time anymore? How unfortunate. I can't watch it at work but I'll watch it when I get home, to see the finished product. I already know it's great and now maybe you'll notice me laying on your bed!

benhaus March 14 2007, 19:46:14 UTC

oh come on you were sleeping when i was working!

beckflower March 14 2007, 20:03:31 UTC

I like to call that boredom

congrats tracipage March 14 2007, 18:30:43 UTC

on a fine job!

29_97fps March 14 2007, 18:34:17 UTC

Wow! What a pile of shit.

But seriously, Ben, fantastic job. It looks and sounds great. I don't even want to think about all the work that went into this.

benhaus March 14 2007, 20:47:48 UTC

Yeah, i'll admit it's a little embarrassing how much time we spent on this. I'll have to show you the 720 x 480 version, it looks WAY more detailed. YouTube is so compressed.

Just for starters we had to track down where to buy a sheet of 1.5 gage metal grate, similar to the grate used in the squad car in the original movie. Richmond Steel on boulevard $35
We cut it to spec using a sawzall and fastened it into the back seat using plastic ties and ducktape.
I had no idea where to get a orange prison shirt.. so i asked around and found Sunny Zhao had one from this shoot.Each shot inside the car is a composite of 6 or 7 layers of video. I had to take bits and pieces of the original film, blow it up, mask out areas, color correct to match my video, add film grain and color key out my windows. Then duplicate to make it loop. You can see in certain shots the background is only 4 or 5 seconds long and just looped over and over again. I placed the looping background breaks in-between the actual finished cuts so you wouldn't notice that ( ... )

shaol1n March 14 2007, 18:55:33 UTC

damn what a pain in the ass!...but the results are great! actually, I'm waiting for you to cut the blooper reel...

benhaus March 14 2007, 19:47:03 UTC

Hah - i'm working on the blooper reel right now!

idea_boy March 14 2007, 19:23:48 UTC

Looks great Ben. Is this why you don't call or write anymore?