Hello,
I am a student at SUNY Purchase, producing my thesis film. In it I have a scene where a character wakes up on the ground at a Drive-In movie theater, a movie in progress on the screen.
I've locked the Drive-In location, they only project 35mm. Obviously the content of the film playing on screen is important to me, I've been on eBay looking for 35mm trailers that might be appropriate, but I got to thinking that an easy chroma key, or luma key I guess, effect would be much easier. Or even a garbage matte on the geometric area of the screen, unless something crosses it.
I haven't chosen a format yet, probably Super-16, but possibly HD on the Panasonic HPX. Assuming I'm shooting Super-16, and finishing digitally in FCP, how hard would it be to key in the perfect footage on-screen, something I rip from a DVD for instance?
I'm guessing I can run the 35mm projector with no film in it to overexpose the white-screen, worry about lighting the minimal action on the ground in front of the screen, and then in post Luma Key out the bright white screen, and replace it with whatever I want.
Is there a better way to do this? Will this work? Any thoughts?
Thanks.
-Matt