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Topic: One-way mirrors
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Magnus
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posted 02-06-2000 02:44 AM
Yet another question, but that's what these boards are for. You know those interrogation rooms that they er.. interrogate you in? Is there any way I could pull off an effect that looked like a one-way mirror? |
Ale
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posted 02-06-2000 02:51 AM
Speaking of one way mirrors, where can I find the type of mirrors used for teleprompters?Ale |
Skinned Fox
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posted 02-06-2000 03:14 AM
1.Just use a one way mirror. Get some thin mylar and some clear acrylic. You could experiment with adhesives to find one that wont fog the mirror or just wet suction stick it. Your question was unclear, if this dosn't help clarify and I'll try to think of something.Asfar as I know teleprompter mirrors are just glass at a 45 degree angle infront of the lens with a backwards printing TV (or twice reflected TV) perpendicular under the lens.
The part of the white lettering is reflected and visible against the darker background an dpart of it passes through skyward. The camera, giving off no light, does not cast a reflection and can fil unimpeded. ------------------
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mr.showbiz
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posted 02-06-2000 03:46 AM
Another option would be to film it in two different shots: one in the interior of the interogation room with a real mirror where the 2-way would be, then for the scond shot, have your "hot set" be the viewing room and have the actors replaying the events of the interogation room behind simple glass with darker lighting in the viewing room or maybe a slightly tinted glass. Be careful of your lighting using this suggestion though, too much light passing into the viewing room from the interogation room would give it obviously fake feel.------------------
Mr.Showbiz
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."-Gene Wilder: Willy Wonka
"If life is but a dream, then may I never wake."-Me |
Magnus
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posted 02-06-2000 06:58 AM
I like the Showbiz way, it sounds simpler |
Actor
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posted 02-06-2000 04:35 PM
Real "one-way" mirrors are actually half-silvered mirrors that pass half the light though and reflect the other half. The reason that it works is that the interrogation room is brightly lit and the observation room is dark. If the lighting was reversed then you could see into the observation room and not see the interrogation room.Showbiz's method is the way this is usually done in Hollywood.
One of the things that Hollywood puts into these scenes is the bit where the suspect/patient looks at his reflection a few inches away from the mirror. This is pure Hollywood. In reality anyone getting that close to the half-silvered mirror is able to see into the observation room.
[This message has been edited by Actor (edited 02-06-2000).] |
Andius Rex
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posted 02-06-2000 11:59 PM
Yeah, teleprompters are just glass or plexiglass at a 45 degree angle. They reflect the monitor sitting under them just enough so that you can read the words on it, while people in the audience can see you fine. |
Magnus
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posted 02-07-2000 04:16 PM
So then how do they get the mirrors to look like brick or wall instead of glass? |
dead_body_#ONE
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posted 02-07-2000 05:05 PM
Actor is right real one-way mirrors don't work nearly as well as good ol' Hollywood effects. I once bought one thinking I could use it to create backgounds for my claymation movies but it half absorbes and half reflects light giving a generally bad effect. Careful lih=ghting is needed to make them work right. |
Skinned Fox
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posted 02-07-2000 11:40 PM
If something looks like brick or wall it's not a mirror. It's a scrim, peepholes camoflage, anything a one way mirror always looks almost exactly like a mirror.What are you talking about? |
Magnus
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posted 02-08-2000 02:05 PM
I mean that whenever they interrogate someone there's a wall that looks like the rest of the room-cement, brick, plaster- but then they show you it's actually a mirror. Like in the beginning of The Rock. When Anthony Hopkins crashes into the one-way mirror that looks like part of the wall. |
Mr. Sable
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posted 02-08-2000 02:46 PM
I think that was a reflection. |
Actor
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posted 02-08-2000 06:23 PM
Don't you mean Sean Connery?
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Magnus
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posted 02-09-2000 12:44 PM
Yea, Sean Connerry, don't know why I mix the two up. |
Actor
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posted 02-09-2000 01:00 PM
Because they're both so GOOD?
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F
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posted 02-09-2000 01:46 PM
What are you talking about? The mirror in The Rock does not look like a wall at all..F www.owthemovie.cjb.net |
Magnus
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posted 02-09-2000 02:43 PM
Uhhh, yea it does. Maybe you were looking at it from the point of view of the cops but it really looks like a wall. That isn't the only film that uses one-way mirrors. Even really bad films use them, like Bean and Kindergarten Cop. |
