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Our In-wall speakers are easy to install with patent pending systems. So go out and start creating some amazing mirror shots that will make other filmmakers scratch their heads.Klipsch in-wall speakers provide the performance required for any project. While mirrors will forever be a filmmaker’s mortal enemy, we can at least meet them on equal ground with some simple camera movement, hidden cuts, and post-production editing. Now, you’ve got three new tricks up your sleeve to create a sick mirror shot without exposing your camera.
Rotoscoping in 'Criminal: UK' Credit: Paul E.T. To make it simple, they literally make the camera disappear. Rotoscoping is a technique used to trace an image frame by frame, remove it from the frame, then replace the space with a clean plate of the wall. A dolly with a stabilizer head was used and operated remotely.Ī piece of black fabric covered the equipment and grip to make rotoscoping as minimal as possible. It is the Force Majeure technique without the hole in the wall, with some well-choreographed camera work and a VFX team. The shot is simple: four people sit in an interrogation room with a large one-way mirror reflecting the scene as the camera slowly rotates 180 degrees.
One of the most polished mirror shots today in film and TV would be the now-infamous mirror scene in Criminal : United Kingdom.
'Force Majeure' uses a fake wall and digital removal to pull off mirror trick. It is a very simple way to make the camera disappear. What director Ruben Östlund did was build the camera into the wall, then edited out the lens that was sticking out of the wall in post. It could be a blue screen or doubles mirroring the actors. The camera should be in the middle of the bathroom filming both characters as they brush their teeth in the bathroom. The mirror technique in Force Majeure is impressive because of how simple it is. TV and film have been digitally removing unwanted objects since the technology allowed them to do so. Whether it served the story of Sucker Punch or not, it was still a pretty cool transition. A mirror is placed in front of the actresses in the real mirror shot so the scene can have the true reflections of the characters. The hidden cut stitches the fake mirror shot to the real mirror shot once the camera tracks to the other side of the set. Small details are added into the set design to sell the effect that the images are reflections rather than duplications such as pictures tucked into the mirror and makeup scattered across the vanities. This trick sells the idea that there is a mirror in the scene. When one actor moves, the other actor moves with her while trying to mirror the movements as best as she can. Think of it as a well-rehearsed partner dance. With a duplicated set comes a duplicated cast that mirrors one another as best as they can.
What the audience sees is the camera transition from one side of a duplicated set to the other.
The mirror shot in Sucker Punch is a common movie magic trick that has been used in films for decades. In Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch, there is a scene where the camera starts on one side of the mirror, then tracks to the other side of the mirror.Īt first glance, it is hard to tell how Snyder achieved such a sick shot. Combine the two shots and match the timing, and you have one of the greatest shot transitions in history that involves a mirror. In the second shot, they flip the camera and have it track backward to mimic the movement of shot one, then have the character reach out and open the cabinet for real this time. The character in shot one acts as if they are reaching out for the mirror when they are really reaching out to nothing. One camera tracks young Ellie as she runs towards the bathroom, and a second camera captures the same character opening the cabinet door in the bathroom. The shot of the daughter running to the bathroom is all real, but the second shot, the one looking at the cabinet mirror, is just the first shot superimposed on a blue screen in the place where the mirror should be. The shot is two different shots stitched together. It’s not as complicated as you might think.