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This Movie Maker 2012 exercise teaches: |
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● How to create illusion with stop action, superimposition, and matte shooting
● How Méliès made movies out of impossible actions
● How “special effects” are as old as the movies
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( Movie Maker 2012 downloads free here if your Windows 7 or Windows 8 OS lacks this Windows Essentials software). |
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1. Download this footage. |
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2. Create a new widescreen Movie Maker project. Call it "Imagination." Import "FauxMelies1" into your collections. Preview it in the preview pane. |
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Use Méliès' original special effect—stop-action photography—to wrest "magic" from this 2 minutes 30 seconds shot. The camera in "FauxMelies1.mov" remains immobile, as Méliès' camera almost always did. |
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Trim "FauxMelies1" into 11 shots. Terminate and begin sequential shots where an actor freezes or "reacts" by cutting away any intervening footage. For instance, create shot 1 and shot 2 this way: |
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What happens
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Man 1 points with his wand towards screen left |
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Man 1 recoils in surprise when the couch "appears." |
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You just worked beside Méliès to re-invent the original special effect—stop-action cinematography. You're done! Your movie looks something like this. |
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3. Think about it more? Download this footage to imagine reworking it using Méliès's third favorite illusion, superimposition. With stop-action, freeze frames, and layering. Méliès made this, L'homme Orchestre (1900). |
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