I understand how they filmed it I do video editing and what not so I understand the basics right
IT JUST LOOKS SO GOOD! There’s never a moment where it’s not believable that there are 2 people in some shots. Some shots are so shocking if you think about how tf did they film this! Maybe I’m understanding the power of editing in the 90’s but sometime I sit and watch it with my jaw open.
It’s so impressive! I don’t FULLY understand how they made it so mf good!
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You set up your camera and do a take with Lohan only having one side of the convo while someone cues her off screen.
Then you cut, and have her switch sides to other half of the convo while changing nothing else.
As long as none of her movements overlap, all you have to do is cut the frame if each shot in half and stitch them back together as one
Even more impressive is they did it with Haley Mills in 1961. There was a making of feature for Parent Trap 2 (1986) where the showed how it was done – filming the same shot with a stand-in for one of the twins and editing with the right/left side from each shot.
Technology got even better as they re-did the movie later.
If you’re in the industry, maybe you could look up and tell us something about the director or cinematographer (DP)? I think the techniques are very old; perhaps those people had especially good prior experience with such techniques and took it to a new level?
Have you seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit? They did all that in the 80’s without cgi. It’s mind boggling.
The DP was Dean Cundey, who did Back To The Future, Roger Rabbit, Jurassic Park, Casper… he knows exactly how to shoot a good looking composite shot.
I remember there was a movie surfers episode about this. They explained how they recorded the camera’s movements and then repeated them then laid the 2 films on top of each other.
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