SKILLS: Production Development

Doubles/Doppleganger

My production skills have developed considerably as I am now very comfortable with the editing process of the production phase. I have gained new insights and learnt new techniques that have enabled me to take my work a whole lot further. One of the new skills I have added to my repertoire is how to implement doubles of the same clip or similar clips. 

This was done through the use of some of the image settings in Final Cut Pro. Firstly we had to crop off half the image as you can see below simply by dragging one side of the image to a selected fixed point (we chose the centre of the bench) and then using the same clip/image but flipped horizontally to make it seem realistic. we then set the opacity setting to 100% and there you have it. 

Final Cut Pro

Although this scene was done with only one clip it is also possible to use this technique with different clips, provided the backgrounds are the same ofcourse. Here is an example of what I mean. the technique is still the same. 

As you can see the person in the clip is the same but wearing significantly different apparel. This is ONLY possible if the camera remains stationary and the paths of the people DO NOT overlap otherwise the edit will clearly visible. 

This technique would not have been appropriate for our thriller productions back in AS because this type of editing looks and suits the music video 'genre' more (unless you have double acting in a thriller).