Subject: Re: Adrian From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger) Date: 1991-07-17, 16:45 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) writes: > > > >At a party last Friday we stumbled across an actor who > >played a bit part in one of this year's episodes. [...] > > > >The amusing thing was that when they shot his part he > >did some lines while standing alone in front of the fireplace. > >When the show aired he was amid a bunch of people! > > > >Postproduction editing must be pretty amusing... Hmm, I kinda doubt his story, Paul. Any kind of superposition is a tricky business. Blue-screen setups require serious pro's, extra time and money, and there's never any doubt about what is going on. I suppose they could have used a locked-down camera for the scene, shot the bit player, removed all the furniture and dropped a black curtain for background with a black rug on the floor, and then shot the crowd scene, and superimposed the two in post using a burned-in crowd scene as the mask, being careful to have the crowd players never walk behind any (now removed) furniture positions. Sure seems like an awful lot of trouble, though! Any simple superposition of the same scene with and without the various actors would, of course, show them as "ghosts", with the background showing through them (that's why you need the mask even when you do the black background bit). While I doubt they really had time to play these kinds of tricks just to add people to a scene, it's interesting to hear any anecdotes people might have from the set of TP itself. If you run into the guy again, pump him for any and all good stories, and be sure to share them! -- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder