Thursday, 25 February 2010

I've got a dolly zoom test!

I'm including a dolly zoom, in my ident.
Dolly zooms were invented by a dude called Irmin Roberts and was made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's movie Vertigo.
It starts off with an image of someone's face fairly close up, then instead of zooming into the face the background gets bigger behind the subject which stays the same size.
This is done by moving the camera foreward but adjusting the zoom accordingly, so the person stays the same size but thew background distorts.
This technique is apparently overused in cinema but I like the effect and wanted to incorporate it into my ident, a test is below, I'll have my lady on a street with a proper background for the final scene, I also changed the "squash-ee" to a lady because I like drawing them more as I like girls. :)

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