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"Innocent Bystander" <Finger@Lickin'-Good.com> wrote in message
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> Chances are the audience for your video will, or at least they should be,
> so interested in what your actors are doing that they won't even notice
> the guy waving in the background. If they do notice then chances are your
> "movie" isn't that interesting after all.
>
> There are plenty of these types of things in the background of many of our
> most popular favorite movies. For instance. In the movie "Teen Wolf" at
> the end of the big basketball game scene there is a guy in the background
> that actually pulls out his "perdoinger" and waves it at the camera. No
> one watching the film even noticed. Not even the editors of the film.
>
> In an Alfred Hitchcock film there is a scene where someone walks into a
> restaurant firing a gun at someone else. In the background of that scene
> is a little boy who, since he knew the loud gun fire sound was about to
> happen, covers his ears with his hands. The director and the editor knew
> it was in the scene but calculated the audience would not notice.
>
> Near the beginning of the movie "Mad Max" you can clearly see a vehicle
> overturned in the background of a scene when that vehicle is not shown
> crashing a few seconds later in the film. These are just a few examples of
> what goes on in the background of films everyone watches and do not
> notice.
>
In the previous paragraph I meant to say the vehicle overturned in the
background of the scene actually does not crash until later in a subsequent
scene.
> Next time you watch a movie pay attention to the background instead of the
> main characters and action. Particularly when there are scenes of crowded
> city streets, etc. There are people that stare at the camera, wave and
> make faces alll the time. The only way to come close to controlling it is
> to hire alll the background extras. But even in "Teen Wolf" there was an
> uninvited "member"
>
> "film_fan_1" <slapper2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> There is a scene in my movie where there are two actors talking and in
>> the background a man waving at the camera is seen, I would like to know
>> what software I need to cut this guy out, as this is the take I would
>> like to use. I would also like to darken the background around the
>> actors and brighten the actors.
>>
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