Saturday, February 7, 2015

I'm Not One for Crowds (Blog #34)

Let's Execute This

. Usually when we watch a film, there's at least one scene with a huge crowd at a concert, or in the street, a fair or even, a zombie apocalypse. Crowds are an easy thing in real life but in film, do you really want to gather that many people just for that one part. Usually, no. I wouldn't want to do that. So, crowds are usually CGI'd in using only a small crowd.

There are many different quick tips on how to get this effect without the large price or even the time to bring in more people. One of them, being getting only about 5 people and using a close up of the main actor. This gives a nice effect or a "party" behind them and to even have someone move in front of them gives a nice setting. Or even just people walking around, it gives the "party" more life for your scene.

For those tricky zombie hordes, just get those 5 friends again and dress them up in different outfits, use some masks and BAM, you have clones.

What Do I Think

. I love this video, I really wanna use these in my own films just to see how it all works out!
They are super simple and easy to do and hey, I even have 5 friends I could use. (shocking, isn't it, me with 5 friends)
Having the actors use different outfits is really smart but it could get really repetitive if it's all the same people with the same hair, body type over and over again. But that's my opinion.

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