#Schüfftan process

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Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

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Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982)

Dir.Ridley Scott

The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.

*Director Sir Ridley Scott and director of photography Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous "shining eyes" effect by using a technique invented by Fritz Lang known as the "Schüfftan Process": light is bounced into the actors' and actresses' eyes off of a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty-five-degree angle to the camera.

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Director Sir Ridley Scott and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth employed a technique inspired by Fritz Lang and cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, known as the "Schüfftan Process," to achieve the iconic "shining eyes" effect in Blade Runner. This involved bouncing light into the actors' eyes using a piece of half-mirrored glass positioned at a forty-five-degree angle to the camera.

In an intriguing article from the July 1982 issue of American Cinematographer, the details about the technique were revealed. Scott and Cronenweth utilized a two-way mirror with 50% transmission and 50% reflection, positioned at a forty-five-degree angle in front of the camera lens.

To create the effect, a light was directed into the mirror along the same axis as the camera lens, causing it to reflect into the eyes of the subject. This lighting apparatus, referred to as a pup, was compact and equipped with a dimmer to adjust light intensity as needed. As a result, light was reflected into the subject's eyes without being directly captured by the camera.

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Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang); photo by Horst von Harbou. Filmed using the Schüfftan Process, a precursor of the bluescreen. The technique used mirrors to create the illusion of live actors in huge sets (which in actuality were miniatures of scenery composed of painted or modeled backgrounds).

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Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) Photo by Horst von Harbou.

Filmed using the Schüfftan Process, a precursor of the bluescreen. The technique used mirrors to create the illusion of live actors in huge sets (which in actuality were miniatures of scenery composed of painted or modeled backgrounds).

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“ The Schüfftan process is one of the coolest visual effects techniques from the silent era. By using a mirror with part of its reflective surface removed, model sets could be made to look full-sized, as in this example from Metropolis (1927)” 

- via @silentmoviegifs​ on Twitter  

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Hi! John P. Hess writing here. In the past year or so I have been trying to figure out to craft Filmmaker IQ in a way that I find exciting, dynamic and interesting. After the release of our first episode of THE STUDIOS last week, I feel like I have created a portfolio of shows that I feel reflect my interests in film and filmmaking. So now I want to lay out the plan for the channel going forward (at least the plan for now).

Courses/Labs

Filmmaker IQ Courses have been the mainstays of the channel for the past 5 years and I plan to continue making them. Courses will be more of a “concept explainer” video – very simple production value but focused on communicating a concept of filmmaking such as “Dynamic Range” which is my next endeavor. I think the courses will end up staying in the more scientific/technical realm – at least for now.

Labs will be focused on a specific type process or technique. I am planning to create one on the Schüfftan process this summer but there are a lot of filmmaking techniques I would love to try. The production style will be similar to courses with the bonus of having a small sketch or demonstration video created from the lab itself. (this might open up a separate sketch section of our YouTube channel featuring the results of these labs).

Film Jobs

Film Jobs is an interview based show where I want to feature people who work in the entertainment industry who are NOT actors and directors. I wanted to shed a light on the other folks that make a film set turn and see what exactly they do (although I will feature actors and directors eventually in the series). Currently I have two more shows that I have shot that need to be edited.

Beat by Beat

Beat by Beat is my chance to take a film that I really love and break it down beat by beat to look at the exactly the structure of the plot works. This adds a significant element to the series of film education by introducing story and active film watching to my studies.

The STUDIOS

The Studios was something i came up with when reading the history of major studios in preparing the dailies last year. There’s so many famous names that get glossed over in the media and without the context of history, you can’t hope to understand how the film industry works. The Studios is my way of exploring that history – but with a fun Film Noir twist.

IQ BiTS

IQ BiTS are shorter fun videos – like an Op-Ed, or small point, or behind the scenes video. These will be done when I feel like there’s something interesting I want to share.

The PUBcast

At the beginning of each month we will host a LIVE Q&A session on YouTube called the Pubcast – come hang out and talk about movies and filmmaking with us.

So there’s a survey of the content that I’m going to create for the channel. Don’t forget all the Dailies we post everyday and the courses on this site as well!

Now for some sober truth – YouTube algorithms aren’t delivering like they used to and frankly I can barely afford to keep the lights on. I have to take on outside work so I can’t devote as much time to creating these videos as I would like to. I do have friends that stop by and help but Filmmaker IQ is really just one person trying to operate it. I need your support! Please check out our Patreon and consider helping us out with a pledge. Thanks to all those who have already pledged!

Happy Filmmaking!

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Blade Runner (5/6)

Tagline/ Slogan:

“More human than human”

Merchandise:

Bladerunner was released in the era of cheap, tacky, overexposed merchandise that always accompanied the movies.Bladerunner was released in the era of cheap, tacky, overexposed merchandise that always accompanied the movies.

Interesting Movie Facts:

Director Ridley Scott and director of photography Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous "shining eyes" effect by using a technique invented by Fritz Lang known as the "Schüfftan Process": light is bounced into the actors' and actresses' eyes off of a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty-five-degree angle to the camera.

The final scene was shot hours before the producers were due to take creative control away from Ridley Scott.

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Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, SPFX, or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the film, television, theatre, video game and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of mechanical effects and optical effects. With the emergence of digital film-making a distinction between special effects and visual effects has grown, with the latter referring to digital post-production while "special effects" referring to mechanical and optical effects.

Mechanical effects (also called practical or physical effects) are usually accomplished during the live-action shooting. This includes the use of mechanized props, scenery, scale models, animatronics, pyrotechnics and atmospheric effects: creating physical wind, rain, fog, snow, clouds, making a car appear to drive by itself and blowing up a building, etc. Mechanical effects are also often incorporated into set design and makeup. For example, a set may be built with break-away doors or walls to enhance a fight scene, or prosthetic makeup can be used to make an actor look like a non-human creature.

Optical effects (also called photographic effects) are techniques in which images or film frames are created photographically, either "in-camera" using multiple exposure, mattes or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might be used to place actors or sets against a different background.

Since the 1990s, computer-generated imagery (CGI) has come to the forefront of special effects technologies. It gives filmmakers greater control, and allows many effects to be accomplished more safely and convincingly and—as technology improves—at lower costs. As a result, many optical and mechanical effects techniques have been superseded by CGI.

I love special effects i like how simple or sophisticated it cane be, from a simple cut to an entire human body or pieces that go onto a body like Yondu from guardians of the galaxy the ting in his head is glued on many effect come into horror, action and CY-FY movies and films.

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Schüfftan process

Early green screen

The process was refined and popularized by the German cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan while he was working on the movie Metropolis (1927), although there is evidence that other film-makers were using similar techniques earlier than this. The movie's director, Fritz Lang, wanted to insert the actors into shots of miniatures of skyscrapers and other buildings, so Schüfftan used a specially made mirror to create the illusion of actors interacting with huge, realistic-looking sets.

Schüfftan placed a plate of glass at a 45-degree angle between the camera and the miniature buildings. He used the camera's viewfinder to trace an outline of the area into which the actors would later be inserted onto the glass. This outline was transferred onto a mirror and all the reflective surface that fell outside the outline was removed, leaving transparent glass. When the mirror was placed in the same position as the original plate of glass, the reflective part blocked a portion of the miniature building behind it and also reflected the stage behind the camera. The actors were placed several meters away from the mirror so that when they were reflected in the mirror, they would appear at the right size.

In the same movie, Schüfftan used a variation of this process so that the miniature set (or drawing) was shown on the reflective part of the mirror and the actors were filmed through the transparent part.

Over the following years, the Schüfftan process was used by many other film-makers, including Alfred Hitchcock, in his films Blackmail (1929) and The 39 Steps(1935), and as recently as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), directed by Peter Jackson. The Schüfftan process has largely been replaced with matte shots, which allow the two portions of the image to be filmed at different times and give opportunities for more changes in post production.

The Schüfftan process's use of mirrors is very similar to the 19th century stage technique known as Pepper's ghost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%BCfftan_process

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The History of Shrinking People in Movies

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Schüfftan Process

The Schüfftan Process is pretty simple. This german guy named Eugen Schüfftan realised the possibility of mirrors being used instead of the actual live action element. So if we were to film a train coming straight at the camera, we would be able to do the same but reflecting the action through a mirror, in order to avoid damage to the camera.

Same goes with using miniatures and bringing them closer to the camera, making it seem like the miniature is life sized. Adding some actual life sized elements in the background will sell the shot.