Techniques for shooting a half-cut shot
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Student:
Me and my group wants to know how you do a half-cut shot. Say, as if one shot is showing something else and one shot is showing something else.
Richard:
OK, the easiest way to do it - and it's a technique that we actually used in Meet the Feebles, a movie that we made when I was about 23 years old, one of Peter Jackson's first movies.
We actually just set up the camera. We dropped a string down the front of the set and then we very carefully built one set on this side [his left], another set on this side [his right] and made sure that no part of this [left] set infringed on that [right] set and no part infringed on that [left] set and then we took the line away and when it was filmed it looked like we had a perfect split screen with the two sets.
That's the easiest way to do it, but you can shoot two totally separate elements and make sure that when you're shooting it, half of your frame is black and then obviously when you shoot your other scene, the other half of the frame is black. Then when you comp them together in the edit suite the two will line up perfectly with this nice split line down the middle.