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Director Kane Parsons discusses the technical process of creating the authentic found footage look for 'The Backrooms,' explaining how his experience on YouTube was similar. He talks about achieving the camcorder aesthetic, using VCRs, and creating optical illusions.
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00:00Really the process kind of became pretty similar to what I've been doing for a long time on YouTube.
00:03So I'm sure, you know, avid AV fans are probably going to have thoughts about, you know, the realism of
00:10this.
00:10And I think as I talk about the length of this project, like trying to get so many things accurate,
00:16and I'm usually such a stickler for like technical accuracy.
00:18When it came to the look of the camcorder footage, we were sort of operating from a,
00:24given the ambiguity of not identifying the exact body of the camera,
00:28sort of working from a, we had some wiggle room to define the look ourselves.
00:33And there's some information regarding like the way that it looks like this tape has probably been copied and digitized
00:37at some point in time,
00:38that you can maybe drive a little bit of narrative information from.
00:41So there's a few parameters that we were able to tweak outside of the simple context of like, what camera
00:47did they physically use?
00:48And like the shot where Bobby's holding it and turns to the side is more of like a optical illusion,
00:53where the real camera is right out of right at the angle where you can't see it.
00:56So it looks like he's using the, the proper handy cam, you know, like, I think we go hard on
01:01the interlacing for a sort of,
01:02there's a few things we wanted to look at to sort of sharpen the image and make sure that we
01:07are,
01:07we have enough clarity when we're blowing up the image on such a big screen.
01:11But really the process kind of became pretty similar to what I've been doing for a long time on YouTube.
01:14So in a lot of ways it's the, it's the exact same process.
01:17We were running it through the same VCR and doing all the same, you know, distortion techniques for specific moments.
01:24So it's very similar in that regard.
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