- March 12th, 2014, 1:36 pm#4784405
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Recently I was browsing around Spook Central's excellently researched article about GB2 stock footage...
http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/gb2_stock.htm
... and I noticed that in one of the takes for the moviegoers fleeing the theatre ghost, the camera kept rolling even after all the extras were out of frame, giving us a better glimpse of the posters on the wall than what is visible in the actual film.
Within minutes, I had Googled the poster art for all three of these films and looked up their imdb stats to boot.
They Came From Within and Rabid were both produced by Ivan Reitman, although I was unable to find any connection he had to Sssssss.
[On a personal note, I'd like to add that while I have never seen the first two, as a kid in the 70's or 80's I did watch a TV broadcast of Sssssss just because the commercials advertised that Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica was in it, and it scared the unholy crap out of me.]
So then I had the idea to make a little diorama using those posters and the Theatre Ghost figure which Mattel produced.
As I really began to study the exterior of the theatre used for this location shoot, again with the help of some great detective work by Paul Rudoff and Spook Central (http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/ ... ater-ghost), I realized there was another poster visible in the shot.
If the three posters in the interior walls were the Coming Attractions, it seemed reasonable that the posters facing the sidewalk would be the Now Playing.
A pic in the Spook Central article strengthened this suspicion.
In 1986, posters for Police Academy 3 were in both of the exterior frames, reinforcing what was seen on the marquee above.
Reasoning that the set decorators would have likely mimicked this policy while putting the giant red letters up for CANNIBAL GIRLS, I looked up the poster for C.G. and it seemed to match the poster seen from an angle in the movie.
I printed all four posters out, as well as some computer-drawn signage to go above them.
My handy-dandy paper-trimmer gave me some nice straight edges.
And I even decided to print a second set of everything to further flesh out the environment if needed.
I'd been invited a few weeks ago to contribute a photo every Wednesday to Cross the Streams: Ghostbusters Podcast's FB page, with the hashtag MidWeekMattyMatters. So far, I'd only used older photos; I hadn't taken anything brand new for them, and I really wanted to create something fresh this week.
This morning, after two days of printing and trimming tiny posters, I set everything up, put my camera on the tripod, and took two pics-- one with the ghost and one clean plate so I could paint out his support stand and also render him slightly transparent.
This was the resultant image, which I'm happy to say got a Like by GB producer Michael Gross-- a talented photographer and painter-- just a few minutes after it was uploaded.
Oh, and here's a little video you might also enjoy.
Alex
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Recently I was browsing around Spook Central's excellently researched article about GB2 stock footage...
http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/gb2_stock.htm
... and I noticed that in one of the takes for the moviegoers fleeing the theatre ghost, the camera kept rolling even after all the extras were out of frame, giving us a better glimpse of the posters on the wall than what is visible in the actual film.
Within minutes, I had Googled the poster art for all three of these films and looked up their imdb stats to boot.
They Came From Within and Rabid were both produced by Ivan Reitman, although I was unable to find any connection he had to Sssssss.
[On a personal note, I'd like to add that while I have never seen the first two, as a kid in the 70's or 80's I did watch a TV broadcast of Sssssss just because the commercials advertised that Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica was in it, and it scared the unholy crap out of me.]
So then I had the idea to make a little diorama using those posters and the Theatre Ghost figure which Mattel produced.
As I really began to study the exterior of the theatre used for this location shoot, again with the help of some great detective work by Paul Rudoff and Spook Central (http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/ ... ater-ghost), I realized there was another poster visible in the shot.
If the three posters in the interior walls were the Coming Attractions, it seemed reasonable that the posters facing the sidewalk would be the Now Playing.
A pic in the Spook Central article strengthened this suspicion.
In 1986, posters for Police Academy 3 were in both of the exterior frames, reinforcing what was seen on the marquee above.
Reasoning that the set decorators would have likely mimicked this policy while putting the giant red letters up for CANNIBAL GIRLS, I looked up the poster for C.G. and it seemed to match the poster seen from an angle in the movie.
I printed all four posters out, as well as some computer-drawn signage to go above them.
My handy-dandy paper-trimmer gave me some nice straight edges.
And I even decided to print a second set of everything to further flesh out the environment if needed.
I'd been invited a few weeks ago to contribute a photo every Wednesday to Cross the Streams: Ghostbusters Podcast's FB page, with the hashtag MidWeekMattyMatters. So far, I'd only used older photos; I hadn't taken anything brand new for them, and I really wanted to create something fresh this week.
This morning, after two days of printing and trimming tiny posters, I set everything up, put my camera on the tripod, and took two pics-- one with the ghost and one clean plate so I could paint out his support stand and also render him slightly transparent.
This was the resultant image, which I'm happy to say got a Like by GB producer Michael Gross-- a talented photographer and painter-- just a few minutes after it was uploaded.
Oh, and here's a little video you might also enjoy.
Alex
Last edited by Alex Newborn on April 16th, 2014, 6:37 am, edited 2 times in total.
What a knockabout of pure fun that was!