Dance - Dry for wet filming

Dry for  wet is a technique used to make a film look like it has been made under water when really it has been done in a studio. It involves a combination of on set magic and alot of colour correcting  to create almost realist looking under water scenes.


Here are some example of dry for wet.


https://vimeo.com/15071461  - apart for the really bad lighting that is obviously fake this guy shows us some clever things we could do to add realism to our film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Kg_CTJP6w  this underwater scene in the lord of the rings was also filmed dry to wet, i can tell a little bit that it is howver i think thats because i know its dry to wet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvyctq3wO5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3seS8ajaA

 these  shows the steps we would need to do to colour our film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiE4_SK-Tw  another that shows the process


I think all thought it may not look as realistic as if we filmed under water,  it think it will be rather fun to do something this kind of technically challenging.


The way we plan on going about this :

Slow motion

use fans to blow the hair / clothes  around with the movement of the dance to give it a realistic floating feeling

film dust particles and fog against a black screen and layer mask them onto of the video

film bubbles in a tank in relation to the movement and over lay

A hella lot of colour grading

like seriously colour grading is going to be a pain in the arse and me and lauren are definatly going to need some help with that.



This is going to take a lot of testing to make sure we do this correctly to get the most realist effect out of it.

We have also enlisted an honorary member to our crew resident technical whiz at dfsa yr 2 ... thomas doukinwhatshisface  


All though we want to do most of this on our own we though it would be best to have someone on hand who can after effects and help if needed.

so on set tom will be around to make sure the green screen is correctly lit and hold the fan  to make the hair and costume blow :)  we also may need his help to make an ocean floor as if we get close ups off there feet it will be obvious they are stood on a studio floor so we may need something to cover that up.