In another scene, an audio person and boom mic that slipped past the edge of our preview monitor (but made it into the final shot) were removed with masks and a Photoshopped background plate. One of the essential tricks for adding photoshop elements to motion video believably is to add moving grain via the “Add Grain” plugin in AE. If you don’t do this, the Photoshopped trickery will stick out like a sore thumb. The film was shot with a DVX100B and the Redrock Micro M2 & M2Encore setups. This yielded additional film-like grain, so it was even more important to add grain after the fact if you were going to add photographic elements.
Of course, there were also a number of noticeable effects we did in this film, especially related to vision burst sequences that the Guardian undergoes, in which we used heavy combinations of Colorista, Magic Bullet Misfire, and Boris Continuum Complete 6’s Film Damage to cause a frenetic shaking, shuddering, and eclipsing flash of migraine-inducing light.
The two sequences from the film that I want to cover in more detail are one each of “invisible” and “visible” effects. The first was from the beginning and required “invisible” effects. The second is from the end of the film and required very “visible” effects.
