Godfrey Tait

If you can get a hold of the behind the scenes of shooting the pilot for 'lost' they go into a bit of detail on how they got the right jolts for the plane crash. It was basically having things like the camera jolts one way as the actors jolt the other giving the impression of them being thrown to one side.

Hey everyone, I just finished watching 'Coffee and Cigarettes' by Jim Jarmusch and started thinking after seeing the credits and noticing it was Cate Blanchett playing both characters in the short segment 'cousins'. I've seen this before in films where the same actor/actress playing 2 or more characters but always figured the effect was created by using standins, lookalikes and strategic camera placement ... however in this a lot of the coverage was in a simple '2 shot' where it was definitly her playing both characters talking to each other. I'm sure theres some simple explanation of how this is done but i'd be interested to hear how this sort of scene would be filmed. I've read a little on the technique of blocking half of the frame then shooting and the blocking the other half and shooting, and also it being done digitally now ... but it is just so seamless, is this how its done?? In laymans terms ... how do they do that?!! :huh: Thanks in advance