Les
Well-Known Member
Hey guys,
So for The Wedding Singer, the director wants to avoid building an airplane set for one short scene, so he has tasked me with coming up with a lighting trick. His idea was to project a custom gobo on to a scrim. The gobo would essentially be an outline of an airplane fuselage - then top light behind the scrim which would hopefully make the talent visible. For the record, I love using scrims to make gobos "pop out"... But I can't say I've ever used one in this capacity before.
He says it's OK if we can see through the scrim, as long as the gobo accurately suggests that they're in a plane. I guess we are looking at a type of holographic effect. Here's a crude drawing I made of the potential gobo:
I guess I could also project moving clouds using a FilmFX to help set the scene.
My question is - seeing as it has been years since I have worked with a scrim - do you think this will work at all? I will only have about a week to play with things once we move in to the space, and I'd rather not spend most of that time on this one scene. So I thought I'd poll you guys.
So for The Wedding Singer, the director wants to avoid building an airplane set for one short scene, so he has tasked me with coming up with a lighting trick. His idea was to project a custom gobo on to a scrim. The gobo would essentially be an outline of an airplane fuselage - then top light behind the scrim which would hopefully make the talent visible. For the record, I love using scrims to make gobos "pop out"... But I can't say I've ever used one in this capacity before.
He says it's OK if we can see through the scrim, as long as the gobo accurately suggests that they're in a plane. I guess we are looking at a type of holographic effect. Here's a crude drawing I made of the potential gobo:
I guess I could also project moving clouds using a FilmFX to help set the scene.
My question is - seeing as it has been years since I have worked with a scrim - do you think this will work at all? I will only have about a week to play with things once we move in to the space, and I'd rather not spend most of that time on this one scene. So I thought I'd poll you guys.