After a dozen years of waiting, watching and studying, I finally have my hands on film I (well, me and Charlie) created.

Here is a quick composite test with Hilary and Delilah.
We shot this on Saturday at Hilary’s apt, in front of the green screen.
This is from the Nikon. Notice how even the lighting is. When I looked at these stills after the shoot, I was like man, thats going to be some good looking stuff.

Imagine my surprise when I opened Premier and saw this!
Yikes!

After scanning thru all the video we shot, I was very relieved to find that this was the worst footage of the lot. We had wanted to experiment with having the girls sit on the green screen and see how it would looks keyed out in AE. Normally, we would have rigged a practical (real world) floor for them to interact with, but this was a spur of the moment idea. The red was caused by a combination of things with the lighting and how we had set the camera.

I pulled the footage into AE and broke out Mark Christiansen’s book.
20 minutes later I had pulled the key and added the Magic Bullet Looks filter Neo to give the scene that Matrix look and well, lookf or yourself.
(NOTE: Youtube’s compression did alot to remove the detail out of this. The full size HD clip has tons of detail in the shadows you can’t really see here)

I can spot about a dozen things wrong with this footage, but for having taken the *worst* footage we got and working it for 20 minutes, I am happy with the result.