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1701-D Empty Corridor Footage?

saloonstudios

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I'm working on a short and I need a good background plate of an empty corridor, preferably with a slow dolly in it. I was using this shot from Phantasms, and it's perfect for the move, but painting out Troi has proven very difficult.
Test your TNG knowledge- Anyone have any ideas?

phantasms.jpg
 
Any way to get the same scene a few seconds earlier or later and sort of "overlapping" them? Or at least copying the same section without Troi being there yet. Then overlaying and rescaling it over Troi.
I'm just guessing, I've never been tried to do this kind of thing.
 
Oh man 11001001 is so close to being usable. If one of those shots was 1 second longer it'd be perfect.

I started out by trying to paint out Troi, but as the shot goes on the perspective of the door and hallway behind her changes so much that I can't use the clean frames from the beginning of the shot without heavily distorting them.
 
By longer I meant I wanted it to wrap around the corridor just a bit more- more physical space to work with- Starship Mine is another good one, I'll check that one.
 
The interactive technical manual CD may have something you can use.

I know the fan series Hidden Frontier did that with a lot of their backgrounds. It became a bit of a gag that every crewman's quarters had the same distinctive 'chair' since the background used was of Worf's quarters.
 
Didn't one of the episodes with Data's dreams have shots from his point of view going through the corridor? The only problem with Data's dream sequences is that they tended to have this floaty, higher-than-eye-level, feel to them. It might not be the right angle.
 
Anyone remember that VCR board game starring Robert O'Reilly? It opened with lengthy shots of empty corridors, if I remember right. They might have been taken from existing footage, ala the battle seqence at the end, though.
 
Didn't one of the episodes with Data's dreams have shots from his point of view going through the corridor? The only problem with Data's dream sequences is that they tended to have this floaty, higher-than-eye-level, feel to them. It might not be the right angle.


Yup, see my post above. :D

You've also got to consider crew member hiding around the corner at the end of the shot ;)
 
Ask the congress for money to build the set...hey if they can give away 700 Billion dollars, they can give you the money to build the set..

Rob
 
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