SPECIAL EFFECTS IN PORN

In our recent movie "Maid In The City : Corruption Is Bliss!" I was reminded again, just how Erotique Porn Productions has become used to using visual effects in movies. Even in movies where it does not look like they are present.

Pandora's Box. Zero G Sex Scene. Used a lot of green screen and effects techniques.

Even in a movie totally unlike Pandora's Box which was of course set in space and inside space ships and really call for visual effects, or in films like Pron. Every day movies set in a SL home can benefit from visual effects in post production too.

Here is a good example of a visual effect being used as a movie making tool in our last movie. The drapes surround a green screen, in a scene shot at one location.

At another location Serenity and Arwen are shot stood in a room where an earlier part of the movie was filmed.

This shot does not look like a special effect. Sometimes that's what is called for. Effects are about making the impossible appear on screen. That can be space ships flying around. Pure artistic expressions, Or even adding an actress into a scene who was not there at the time, or making a set look bigger than it actually is.

Here the two are combined, the doorway green screened, or "Chroma Keyed" out, the clip with Serenity and Arwen is then placed and revealed underneath. In fact throughout the movie the doorway appears to lead to the a joining room, even though they were two separate locations.

This allowed us to to create a more extensive looking set where there was none. It could have easily allowed a Director to shoot this above scene even if all three actresses were not online together. Which is a common problem when embarking on longer productions in SL. I even took the opportunity to experiment with blurring the two elements to fake a depth of field effect, like the Kirstens viewer can produce.

In our movie "The Widow" The Demon which appears in the Finale was filmed against a green screen. This was for several reasons, one was we had scenes which had to be perfectly lined up, and composing the scene in software and arranging the pieces on screen was was easier than trying to get every thing in one place in SL.  Plus the church setting was made quite dim for atmospheric reasons, meaning the black demon never showed up much against the surroundings.

Here you can see the dark demon is highlighted by an eerie red glow. Which was possible due to it being a layer in a virtual scene. The red glow makes the Demon pop out! It also matches the eyes and just looks fitting too. Also a drop shadow on the demon was able to be used as it was a separate element, just like you add drop shadow to a line of text. This above scene is composed of some stock footage of flames, a snapshot of the film set, and the green screen video of the demon. In all it made it a lot more exciting visually than just shooting a regular scene in SL.

Serenity Juneberry. xx