Overlay

 

I proposed an idea to try and overlay photography over our footage for this scene to make it feel more surreal and contrast it to reality to show the viewer that this is an insight into the protagonist's mind. To achieve this, we used long exposure photography. This is when you reduce the shutter speed to allow more light into your photograph. Because there's more light, the image captures movement and if you or the light moves, it leaves an imprint of where you were before.

We used our LED lights to create a light painting effect while Dylan moved to leave different impressions of himself around the image. Then I brought the footage and the photography into Final Cut, and for the first part I had the image come in and out of the footage, then for the rest I left it there the whole time, both times lowering the opacity so that the footage is clearly seen through it. I cut between the footage to different angles to make it feel a bit disjointed. 

I reversed the side profile clips to make it feel more chaotic, and played with the video opacity with keyframes to blend the footage and video, and to ease transitions between clips.