We had him wear the same orange hoodie as the character would wear. The crew person acts as an ‘eye line’ for the actor. Rehearsal in this case includes your crew person reading the other character’s lines for the scene and timing it out. Rehearsal is always an important to minimize mistakes. So during rehearsal, we marked things so we would know where everybody has to be on both sides of the screen. In both of our split screens shots, our actor as one character would reach out his arm towards the center of the screen, toward the other character on the other side. (We used tape, ground debris, cracks in the ground or that indentation in the cement.)
We worked with marks on the ground for the actor not to cross over to help with the split screen. You could pan to, or with, the actor to get into the scene. You don’t have to start with the camera locked. If you don’t lock the camera, when you try to match up both shots in the middle, you could have a problem trying to make it look seamless. When we shot for the split screen, we had the camera locked down on a tripod. This was to be done in a wide shot, or a fifty-fifty shot. We actually looked for some straight lines in the wall in the background and on the ground that we could use as, you guessed it, straight lines where the split of two images will later converge in editing. On our scout, we found locations for the split screen shot. He wrote this article describing everything you need to consideration in order to get a good split screen effect. My friend Andre Campbell, who works in film and video production out in Hollywood, recently did a show with split screen. Andre Campbell, seen here on the ladder, at work during a production for Nick at Night. With the split screen technique, you first have to shoot it properly, then you add the two shots in editing. He is seen talking to himself by the use of a split screen technique. This special effect is often used in order to have one actor play two parts.Īs you can see in the adjacent picture, the same actor is playing two characters, one is supposed to be him from a future time. Split screen is a technique that essentially adds two shots together to make one.
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