Well, crap.....

[mus]

Well, second to last day of shooting is complete, finally got ahold of an actor that is constantly MIA, delaying the production.

We get to a shot, pretty important to the story, very quick shot, everyone is tired as hell and wants to go home, so we speed through the shot... Much to my dismay, I arrive home to realize the shadow of the microphone falls directly on the person standing in the middle.


What the hell do I do? Is this too much of an annoyance to leave in? (It's kinda recognizable that that's what it is)

 

[Zensteve]

Do a pan across, while punched in. Maybe the motion will help disguise it.

Prolly not.

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[Alcove Audio]

I don't know much about visuals, but I've spent literally hours redrawing waveforms to fix crackles,
bumps and distortion on very short (two or three second) audio clips.

My wife is a graphic artist and has done incredible things with still photos - "erasing" old logos and
putting new logos on shirts (they do lots of NFL and MLB work), and once got rid of a wine glass being
held in a hand and replacing it with a piece of jewelry. Fixing shadows is something that she does on a
regular basis. Now, I know about as much as a turtle when it comes to visuals, but five seconds is,
what, 120 frames? Can't you just brighten up the shadow a bit frame by frame? Or am I way off base?

 

[jax_rox]

I'd suggest either root-tracking the entire t-shirt and changing the entire design (perhaps a plain colour?) or tracking just the part that the boom is on and fixing the colours on that.

It will be a lot of work, but it seems fixable.

 

[mus]

can't you just brighten up the shadow a bit frame by frame? Or am I way off base?

i probably could using some rotoscope mask... i'll do a test on it, then i'll see if i can do wat jax suggested