Wet-for-dry
Wet-for-dry (“wet as dry”) describes a process of film art in which underwater recordings are changed through technical manipulation in order to give the viewer the impression of a film scene recorded over water.
Action
The actors are filmed in a water-filled tank to create a supernatural representation that defies gravity . Chromakey or comparable techniques are usually used here . Long hair or robes in particular can be staged with this technique using flowing movements. One challenge with this technique is the use of waterproof makeup .
Use in feature films
The wet-for-dry technique has been used in various television series, feature films and music videos since the 1980s .
- 1981: The ghosts that rise from the Ark of the Covenant in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark were played by models who were filmed in a water tank to create ghostly, flowing effects on their hair and clothing. For this purpose, slow motion effects and the use of a blurred lens were used to create an ethereal impression.
- 1992: The Spirit of Christmas Past in the film The Muppets Christmas Story was shot using the wet-for-dry technique.
- 1998: The Wet-for-dry technique came in the music video Only You by Portishead used.
- 2006: In the episode The Satan Pit of the television series Doctor Who , one of the actors was filmed using wet-for-dry technology to portray him drifting dead through space.
- 2007: In the film 300 , the flowing effect of the dancing oracle of Delphi was achieved by filming the actress underwater.
- 2009: The dementors of the Harry Potter films were filmed using wet-for-dry technology. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , actress Georgina Leonidas in the role of Katie Bell was filmed wet-for-dry in the scenes in which she is in the air with her hair swirling around her head.
- 2011: For the music video I Need a Doctor of Eminem 's Estella Warren by Wet-for-dry technique was filmed.
Similar film techniques
The opposite technique of wet-for-dry is called dry-for-wet , in which an actor is filmed in a dry room filled with light fog or smoke under clever lighting to create the impression of underwater shots.
Similar to the conveyance of the illusion that an underwater shot is a film shot made in the dry, there is a film technique to make a shot made during the day look like night shots. This is called day-for-night in film art .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Background information on Raiders of the Lost Ark according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Background information on 300 according to the Internet Movie Database