Comments on: Time Lapse of Daily Show set change

Time Lapse of Daily Show set change

nevercalm — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:45:01 -0800

I'm a lighting tech and a photographer who loves to make time lapse movies of shows I work on, when I'm there for the whole run of an install. Occasionally the show finds out. Sometimes I get in trouble and sometimes I don't...my latest time lapse is a 7 week long shoot of the set change from the the set change from the Jon Stewart Daily Show to the Trevor Noah Daily Show.

I made it with two GoPros, dumping the images into iMovie and then GoPro's app on the Mac. It was painful. I asked this question a little while ago about better methods. I downloaded the Quicktime 7 app. It was fast, but it didn't work as well as I had hoped. If anyone else has tips and tricks or favorite applications to do this with so it's not so time- and memory-intensive, I'd love to hear them.

By: amtho

amtho — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:45:09 -0800

Well, that's pretty cool. Thank you!

By: COD

COD — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:52:12 -0800

Nice!

By: xingcat

xingcat — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:09:58 -0800

This is amazing! How cool to watch the behind-the-scenes.

By: Clinging to the Wreckage

Clinging to the Wreckage — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:20:12 -0800

That's very cool thanks. Question - when the theater is filled was that test audiences and such? It went by fast but it looked 'real' for a few bits there.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:43:04 -0800

Yes, we did 4 test shows with full audiences. Since they wanted to use it for the premiere day, the full version I wanted to do-from Jon's last show to Trevor's first-it's not as complete as I'd like.

By: General Malaise

General Malaise — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:05:38 -0800

That's incredible. Thanks!

Also, apparently today I learned that those are real screens. I'd always just assumed they were green drops.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:05:57 -0800

Thank you!!

So this might be a little inside baseball...on the old set we had a rear-projection screen they would put the green in and we had a green drop. We use the drop for full body stuff, shoots with furniture, taped pieces, etc.

The new set has 3 video walls (one is a touch screen), an RP screen and then also a drop. The switcher can key out anything in a given shade, so it can be a background, paint, a cloth drop, whatever.