Creating the binocular pattern

[DavidSloan]

Is that a filter, or a post thing?

 

Thanks

[Phil Rhodes]

Hi,

 

Very quick and easy to do in post if you're already doing stuff in post; if you're shooting 35 for optical print it'd obviously be cheaper, easier and better to have a mattebox mask. What's the intended result?

 

Phil

[DavidSloan]

Hi, Phil...pardon me for not mentioning the format and post path. It will be shot on S16 mm, going to telecine and finish on BetaSp.

[John Mastrogiacomo]

Any decent editing program can make a mask like that. You can also make it in Photoshop and import it into your editing program.

 

:)

Hi, Phil...pardon me for not mentioning the format and post path.  It will be shot on S16 mm, going to telecine and finish on BetaSp.

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[John Sprung]

Is that a filter, or a post thing?

 

Thanks

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Usually a post thing. You might also consider whether you want the traditional silly looking matte with the two sharp overlapping circles, or something more realistic with basically one big circle and funky edges.

 

 

 

-- J.S.

[Michael Nash]

And no, it's not that easy to create with a matte placed in front of the lens. With a long focal length lens needed to replicate the magnification you get with binoculars, you'd need a very small matte quite some distance from the lens in order to fit the frame properly and be at all close to focused. Anything placed closer to the lens won't be in focus, and instead acts like an additional iris or "waterhouse stop" ( http://www.cinematography.net/Pages%20GB/MATTES.HTM ).

 

I think one reason you used to see that cheesy sharp-edged matte all the time was that the lab kept using the same one."Binocular matte? sure, we got one of those..."

[Phil Rhodes]

Hi,

 

....or something cheesily futuristic, with lots of crosshairs and distance indicators, and grade the whole frame green, and....

 

I'm getting carried away. I apologise.

 

Phil

[David Mullen ASC]

I loved the telescope POV post effect used for "Master and Commander" replicating bad chromatic aberrations, etc. for those shots of the French warship.