Ian: Whoa
This- wow- okay. This one's crazy. So this is EXO they are a boy group and there's eight members in this music video
So you're gonna see a lot of people
This was released in 2017 under SM Entertainment
And I believe it was flexible pictures and Kim Jacque Young who worked on the visual effects and directing and stuff
Oh cool
So they have a lot of this sort of film grain
Lightly kind of look on top and that's a aesthetic choice to give it sort of a feel of old film
That distortion would have been some sort of wave filter
Gone over it
That was probably
a
CG element for the car and
chair and whatnot
They could have thought it practically but I'm guessing something like this would have been CG.
I think it would be a little bit
easier to set up and control
Sort of what you're getting
The smoke would be a CG simulation that they're then integrating around
I think that the car driving itself
they would have been pulling it practically on set and then if the
Tow vehicle or the cable or anything got in to frame that would be an invisible effect that would then get removed
So for something like this
My guess what they did is they had a pool for him to jump into
And like an aboveground sort of pool and then took it out and reshot it with the table
there in the same place and then they cut the top off and use the
footage from here up where he's jumping into it and then below have the second take where it is the
Just the table and then you can sort of because it's the same sort of perspective and everything.
It integrates really well together
Umu: So him jumping into something so they used the splash and him jumping in is a different shot than just the table.
Yeah, essentially
you can imagine that there's a-
And it's all speculation at this point
but you can imagine that there is a pool that is basically the same size and he jumps into and the water comes up and
From like this would be the top of the pool. Okay, and then take it out reshoot it with the table and then just
Cut that that footage so that the first take ends right about here
and then second take is just below that
One place where it gets a little bit tricky is you have the water drops going in front of it
And so you would have to isolate those and bring them back and that could be done by
rotoing the individual water drops or it could be
Augmenting it with additional elements depending on the the color of the pool that he's jumping in to
If that matched closely enough
you could also blend it so that the line was a little bit lower
and the top at the table became the top of the pool sort of thing
This would have been a CG cloud that they generated and
Simulated those sort of undulations
and movement and then the rain would have been generated from that as well
And then they would have tracked the whole thing in
and lit it to be very similar to the shot and then composited it together.
I'm not sure exactly how they would have done this shot. It could have been
Shooting an actual hamburger from a bunch of different angles as an element.
I don't think that it would be a CG
hamburger because it would take a lot of time to sort of
Set the look for every part of that but it also could have been a stock element. That-
Got used, and then it looks like there's some
Additional filter going on with it over the
Umu: meat part?
Is that the meat?
Umu: The pink and blue.
Yeah,
Umu: I think it's the meat,
okay
Yes on the meat.
I think that this would have been a
water simulation and
A person on a green screen that has been composited into the washing machine.
It could have also been
like a fish tank element, but
I'm not 100%
This
generally, he would have been shot on a green screen sitting on
a stand-in for the cloud and then the cloud would be built around that
and then
inserted into this the scene
He could have also been shot on the ground double essentially and then roto-ed out and lifted up
We did something very similar on CL lifted
The flying plants and chairs could have been on wires
or they could have been a CG element either one would have worked
I think that that effect of the car moving forward and him moving
backwards would have been done practically similar to before where they're pulling the car
and possibly having him on like a sled that
Drags him back and then just clever framing so you don't see that
This thing would have built a model of the ground and then shattered it and
Applied the sort of rainbow texture to the inside of the shatter and then the video
Texture to the top of it
And so the outside is the normal video and when it breaks apart and you see the visual part
It's that rainbow texture
That would have been a lightening
piece that they
generated and there's a
Handful of plugins that all do that sort of thing and
you sort of specify the start and end point and how much it moves
That would've been- I'm not sure if the
Light trail going up would have been just the rocket that they're launching the fireworks from
or if they're doing something to that
but they're they're using clever editing to sort of transition from the ball bouncing up out of frame and
Continuing the motion and then they could be taking a fireworks element and
adding it on top to sort of blend that together
or it could be that this is just a shot of a firework launching and
Getting it into the sky. There's no real way to know.
That would have been the similar sort of thing throw the ball up
cut to a different shot and make the light come out and have
this sort of bright flash and the sky is
Something that would be a relatively easy effect to do but still give a cool result
Umu: There you go
So next we were reacting to DPR live and this video was released in 2018 and directed and edited by
Christian yu who did all of the editing for Bobby's HOLUP!
I'm not sure the
The tiger is something with a shot on set or if it was another element or CG but it could have been any of those
That would have been an overlay pattern that they're putting on the umbrella
This I'm guessing they would have shot like they would have built the set so that it was tilted on its side
And what a shot like the guy sweeping them straight down
and he'd be sitting on the bench kind of laying on the floor
So it looks like he's sitting.
Umu: Would it be two different shots or this is just one set?
likely
It could be one set. However, it could go either way if this was sort of like a key set piece for it
I would probably build it as one set
But if it was a one-off for two shot thing
Then it wouldn't be too hard to find a place that you could match sort of
This up with a set that you built looking straight down and kind of splice them together if it was a repeating setup
I would probably build the set that way and just shoot it in one take to save time then
This may be isolated the stripes on it and
adding a video in to it
That looks like it's a displacement that they're doing
It's the sort of hexagon pattern and sort of shifting the image around based off of this sort of
hexagon shape that they would then isolate the area and
Control how much it turns on and off
That would have been I green screen or rotoscoped and then shift
Like duplicating the footage and shifting it in position. So it creates that sort of echo effect
And then the background would have been a pattern that they're creating
Assuming that it's the sort of tilted set and that this is actually the floor
It looks like she's actually being moved across it because the lighting
Stays consistent and moves across in a way that I expect it to I'm not sure
If this is actually moving
it seems like they could have very well animated the
Sidewalk sort of compressing down and then have her pulled across and then remove whatever
cable, or
Thing that was she was on that was moving her but that's all sort of assuming that this set is
Tilted 90 degrees and we're shooting it straight down if they didn't do it that way it could have been
dragging her in the computer, but
Again, the the lighting they did a good job on her shadow here. So if they did that props to them
Everything could have been is it it might not be a straight 90 degree set
They could have angled it up a little bit to get a little bit of a slide in there
depending on how they're doing it and that last shot where person comes down
Could have been achieved that way
The effect on the monkey was probably isolating it and then adding a color effect to him
same with the donkey
That they would have probably
Shot this a little bit
There's more information in the video and then they added the black bars in the editing process
But then for this specific shot having the coconut fly above back
They would have brought it back on top and done the color sort of treatment to it
That would have been a transition effect where they sort of match the framing and fade up on this one
Did a little bit of a black and white sketch effect to it
that might just be a color thinner they're doing as they're bringing it up, but it gives that sort of feel to it
A tot of these lighting and color changes would be done on set
with the actual lights set to different colors and turning on and off
This is using very clever matching of framings
to transition between the shots and the patterns and the umbrellas
They might be doing a little bit of crossfades and whatnot in there
But it is mostly matching the position and framing and then switching between the two
That is basically taking the image and mirroring the other side of it
And so you get that sort of effect of it folding in on itself
They're adding a little bit of glow to I think it's water droplets
But they might have some glittery stuff at their feet
But they are enhancing that with a little bit of a glow to to exaggerate it and bring it out a little bit more
This- they're isolating some of the colors in the in the bricks and then
adjusting it so that it sort of changes color with the music
That I'm guessing would have been a smoke puddle
That is a stock element that you can purchase
and then integrate it into the scene.
Umu: There you go. Yeah, I can't tell her that see do you real?
The tiger? I think it's a real tiger, but I don't think it's actually in the scene
If you look at the paw
it's kind of a sharp edge which makes me think that they cut it out of some other shot and then
Integrated it into this one and then they're doing some a little bit of like overall color in there
They're matching the shadow on it to sort of make it feel like it's in the frame, but that is really just a guess
they're could be a number of different ways that they did it
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