In this scene, at 5:00, you can see two people in frame and one of them shoots the other guy in the head using a shotgun. How did they edit it to look like one continuous scene? I'd imagine they would have to shoot the scene twice, once without makeup and blood, and once with makeup and blood. But how do they add these two clips together to make it look like one scene?
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5Are you asking how they did this one scene? Because there are MANY ways of shooting a "killing scene," and list questions are frowned upon here.– Meat TrademarkCommented Aug 3, 2021 at 2:22
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1The edits are pretty obvious in the clip in the question.– Todd WilcoxCommented Aug 3, 2021 at 3:49
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@meat trademark yes I'm trying to find out how it was filmed and edited but made to look like one scene.– Xposure1Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 8:18
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1Looks to be edited on the digital explosion (should have been smaller muzzle flare, imo), with digital blood mist, practical & digital blood on face as primary elements. To shoot the scene, have the actors freeze right when the gun would fire. Quickly (you want the actors to move as little as possible) apply some blood and continue shooting the scene as normal. Now edit out the part where the blood was applied. Voila! (Not posted as answer because I'm not 100% sure about this and not sure if I explained it well enough. Seems simple to me on this end of my comment.)– Meat TrademarkCommented Aug 3, 2021 at 19:36
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2The question reads almost like sarcasm, given how much changes between the muzzle flash frame and the next frame: victim's head rotates left, camera jolts upwards, gunman's body snaps upright (opposite to recoil), gunman's mouth snaps shut. And the muzzle flash effect is poorly masked, since it brightens not just the victim's shoulders but also the brick wall in his background.– Tom GoodfellowCommented Aug 3, 2021 at 23:17
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In this instance the cut is extremely crude.
- The actor with the gun holds it up and pretends to fire. They then pause the film.
- A digital muzzle flash is added to the frame to try to conceal an invisible cut. The actors go off for makeup and lunch.
- The actors retake their positions, filming resumes and the actor being shot now pretends to have been hit and falls to the ground.
NFSW Warning: Gory
Note that the muzzle flash is pointing in slightly the wrong direction (it should come out of the muzzle in a perfect straight line) and the blood splatter happens in the frame before the gun is fired.
Also we see the muzzle flash pass in front of the character which would actually be a miss, not a hit (although from that distance, the percussive effects would also be considerable).
The muzzle flashes and the blood flare effects appear to have been added digitally in post-production by Racka Racka working in conjunction with ProductionCrate, a VFX house that uses Adobe After Effects.
