The Duel

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The Duel

Following rave reviews from various members of The Force.net’s Fan Film Forum, our entry in the Lightsaber Choreography Competition placed 2nd out of 27 entries.

“hands down, flat out amazing” - Nigel5000

The idea for this film was simple; to make a visually pleasing lightsaber fight. We had to shoot this video over the course of 1 day. Luckily, we had a few months to work in post production. The blades of the sabers were actually aluminum rods attached to machined hilts. In post production, we actually rotoscoped each frame that included a lightsaber glow and added flashes in After Effects. For the force jump, we used After Effects again and green screened the actor and edited him falling in the background using a mask to make it look like he went behind the other actor.

Materials
Canon GL2
Aluminum rods and hilts
After Effects
Premiere Pro

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Published:
04.25.07 / 1am
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