Jack & the Beanstalk

Mixing animation and live action film is something I've always wanted to try.
In the old days, when it was all done in camera, the method went like this. A rostrum camera is loaded with the processed foreground material. A light is attached to the camera so that it becomes a projector, focused on rostrum. the action can then be traced off to make hand painted matte, that are then shot in black and white to make a silhouette on film.
Using a bi-pack, this "Travelling Matte" is wound together with the unexposed stock so the matted part is left unexposed. One then shoots the background. Then the stock is re-wound with the matte's negative, and the foreground is shot.
Anyway, by time I get chance to try all this, it can all be done at home on a Macintosh. What a shame.

	Jack & the Beanstalk!	Quicktime MOVIE 296k




This was a budget production and there was only one actor, Mr Arden (I've forgotten your first name, We've only met at office parties) He's did all three parts in a little low cost bluescreen studio in Maida Vale)
Mixing animation and live action film is something I've always wanted to try. In the old days, when it was all done in camera, the method went like this. A rostrum camera is loaded with the processed foreground material. A light is attached to the camera so that it becomes a projector, focused on rostrum. the action can then be traced off to make hand painted matte, that are then shot in black and white to make a silhouette on film. Using a bi-pack, this "Travelling Matte" is wound together with the unexposed stock so the matted part is left unexposed. One then shoots the background. Then the stock is re-wound with the matte's negative, and the foreground is shot. Anyway, by time I get chance to try all this, it can all be done at home on a Macintosh. What a shame.