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Posted by nobody special on 08/10/06 01:43
Really, the easiest thing is to just lock down the camera shot, shoot
five minutes of the empty room, or the empty room with your "alive"
actor in it, pretending to react to a ghost. Then have your "ghost" do
their thing alone in the room, again, the camera has not been touched
or moved, not even to pause the tape. Line up the resulting tracks one
above the other on the NLE timeline, set a partial dissolve or opacity
level on the upper "ghost" track, and you are done. A variation of
this, to do Haley Mills twins/clones/Evil Mirror Spocks talking to each
other, works the same way, only you use a soft vertical wipe thru the
shots to reveal the layers.
To make it easier for the actors to interact timing-wise, bring an
audio cassette boombox and mic to the set, record one actor's "take" to
audio casette while you shoot it to video. Then play back the audio of
that take on the boom box and the other actor, now in the shot, can
hear and react to actual dialog and timing from the pre-taped
performance. Makes a world of difference in the believeability of the
final product.
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