Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009

[@MetaGrrrl]

This really is a tribute to how good a job actors do of making the world their characters are in be believable to us because it seems real to their character.

[@johnlandis1830]

The last clip is Hero pleased with himself that he teleported to time square. Always makes me smile!!!

[@sailortweek]

...that ferry scene shook me to the core. I take the ferry so often! This really is a fascinating reel!

[@ams914]

My professor played the entire version of this video in my film class, totally blew me away. "it's a very exciting time to be a filmmaker in the digital age."

[@dell1032]

13 years later I hope you're a successful filmmaker.

[@jaywhy3178]

Like the other guy just said, hope you're successful now, 13 years later. Can we get an update - what have you been doing career-wise over these years?

[@mofny]

For someone like me who is into film editing, I must say this is a fantastic video.

[@ScrapNfight]

It really robs the authenticity of the performance in so many ways. There's something that comes out of an actor when he is in the actual location that doesn't ring true when he's acting in nothing but a green room.

[@Bytrixx]

That's pretty awesome, and infact what makes this work is excellent sound designers. Making it look good isn't enough, it needs to sound right too. These examples show the best uses of green screening and environmental audio.

[@CVPTV]

This is truely the best video I have seen this year. Top marks for posting it :)

[@electablebee]

0:29 never would have thought that's a green screen!

[@daviddifranco]

Incredible work! Green screen is used in places that I never even thought of.

[@weilwen]

Now i finally know why all the random people on the street don't look at the camera. I used to think there was some guy holding a sign which says filming in progress, don't look at the camera

[@chris]

Out of control is all I have to say. This was pure movie magic!

[@rainb0w_p0wer]

Well put! Now every time I watch TV I'm always going to wonder: "How much of it is real and how much is fake??"

[@srats56]

tv is all fakery

[@Sajin688]

All of it

[@rainb0w_p0wer]

Not always. Some times they film on location too.

[@dofsmartins]

That burning ship and all those layers are so fantastic!...

[@ooakim]

Music: "Lion Heart" by Emancipator

[@Aleryn27]

They have come so far in just a decade, really. Wow. Thanks op!

[@DreamJunction]

As a film maker, I will tell you I would love nothing more than to place wonderful talent like you on the actual scene to help you feel it, while you act it. However as much as it makes me sad that I can not do that, I am thrilled that there are ways for me to produce clips that I cannot imagine getting funding to do!

[@DevinParker]

I'm continually amazed at what people are able to accomplish with skill and computers. Nice work!

[@xmcflyxxx]

This is amazing... But also quite heart breaking at the same time.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Katie Haigh Why?

[@meganoikz]

Because TV now has no soul, no real locations, no real interaction.

[@mentallyilldarkjeroid5378]

CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, and NCIS: New Orleans were all filmed in Green Screen City. Oh, no.

[@ForrestWhaling]

This completely changes the way I am goingto watch tv from now on. pretty amazing

[@studinthemaking]

are the green screens out on the actual streets REAL or cgi in?

[@TicTac-g7m]

studinthemaking The "green screens" are actually physically part of the movie set or sound stage. They are not "CGI" themselves, but of course they do provide the necessary type of background for CGI to be done.

[@LivinLargeWithF650]

It is truly amazing what technology can do, what alone you can do with a green screen.

[@rolandointeriano3007]

How can our sets be real if our green screens aren't real? - Confucius, 1995, at the iPhone 4 launch party.

[@Phaota]

That is amazing. Never would have thought some of the scenes are additions.

[@meganoikz]

RIP TV.

[@vainsmith]

its interesting to see what films actually look like before the whole editing process. i would love to see that kind fo stuff close up. it makes you appreciate the actors / actresses who have to imagine seeing whats actually not in front of them.

[@432b86ed]

I haven't felt this disappointed since the moment that I realized Santa Clause wasn't real. sigh

[@recombatant]

I think it's so perfect. Because we can tell such amazing stories about anything at all.

[@haroldradido]

OMG! 80% of this I actually thought was on location! #inspired

[@morbeck]

wow this is simply amazing. It blows my mind to know that now everything is possible in filmmaking with a lower budget

[@DavidDavoDavidson]

Should have showed the green screens first and then the digitally projected content. It would be easier to compare and focus on the projected areas.

[@visualspice]

I'm always impressed with their work.

[@KelvinHanratty]

I didn't realise the extent that chroma key is used. wow.

[@Gilmar-jose]

Amazing. A "making dreams come true" work. We have to thank the team for our great moments watching this series. Té.

[@omegalast800]

...this probably how They make the News!?

[@seedz11]

they do

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

They probably should. I'm never quite sure why they bother to go out on location just to give their report standing in front of a vaguely relevant building.

[@TimelineProvision]

omegalast800 fox news

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

***** They chroma-key practically everything else on the news. Studio backdrops, weather reports.

[@castrocakes]

omegalast800 The CIA hires these guys whenever they make an ISIS video.

[@Imagine0459]

Excellent! Amazing, what beautiful stories you can compose with green screens today.

[@intheair1987]

Guess this is only way to get the beautiful views match the shooting schedule... bit disappointed :(

[@stevev2492]

Amazing, I didn't know they could do all this with green screen. I was looking at a "Monk" episode set in New York and wondered how they shot a scene set on a busy street, I now know how they did it.

[@dacuber599]

Who only clicked on the video because hiro nagamura was in the thumbnail?

[@HuskyDiecast]

i have a whole new appreciation for moves and tvshows now.

[@ahmadabdulnabi4900]

and still many people believe everything they see.

[@AnimePRFury]

Oh how much technology has improved... I love seeing how different everything is and what it becomes :D

[@bbruce995]

and THIS is how they did the christchurch shooting

[@romanovj1]

Just amazing to see how it is done ...

[@DawgPro]

Thank you for putting this up ! That is the nail in the coffin. It's the proof that TV is garbage... but then... the green screens could be fake too... should have taken the blue pill. So if we can't tell if it's real or not anymore, it ain't worth it. Me, in my life, I don't do fake. The money I pay the cable company is not fake. So I got better things to do, I'm gonna keep the Internet but I'm canceling the TV part. Even the news is now cinema.

[@aolson1111]

What, did you think people were actually shot to death during action movies, too?

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

You're an idiot

[@DJ-toblerone]

LOL at you just finding out fictional TV shows aren't real

[@mentallyilldarkjeroid5378]

CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, and NCIS: New Orleans were all filmed in Green Screen City. Oh, no. A CSI: NY episode was being filmed one green screen room away from a CSI: Las Vegas episode. BTW, I hate those fucking police state propaganda shows.

[@JustinThought1980]

Who wants to break it to this guy--man, I hate to say it, but the money is fake, too. Just an illusion perpetrated on us by the (Non)Federal (No)Reserve(s) 'way back in 1913.

[@Turritopsisify]

Best video I've seen in a while. This was awesome!

[@CTU-JackBauer]

This video ruined television for me

[@KyleHarmieson]

Holy crap. This is all so well done, I never suspected...

[@KXR900GC]

Television- Telling lies to your vision.

[@ryusazaki]

I am very happy that emancipator is here.

[@pointblankeloquence9578]

And people believe the USA went to the Moon. Hah.

[@rjd1922]

Because green screen on this level totally existed in 1969.

[@goldifying]

This is fricken amazing! Never expected that much green screen.

[@drinkteaeveryday]

Cheaper way to express your idea in the art of film but also a dangerous aspect of development into a culture of government and media manipulation and censorship of reality.

[@OtherMike5000]

Now, show *_'Biden'_* in the *_'White House'_*

[@GNoodle]

Amazing way to save time and have the same effect of actually being there.

[@cjacobs627]

Absolutely amazing!!!! Mind-blowing!! So impressive. Bloody great work, people...Wow. Wow!

[@somebuddyX]

Your work is amazing and thank you for introducing me to Emancipator.

[@nctrns]

Wow, If I'd seen some of those, I'd never guess they were so heavily composited. But there were some that would be very obvious, especially in HD. Also, great choice of music! Never heard the guy, but it's great.

[@matthewshell]

Amazing stuff!!

[@Lukeeiiee]

the song is called Lionheart by Emancipator

[@ArtbyAtlas]

That's really cool, nothing to be dissapointed about. The acting has clearly improved since years ago for actors to be able to interact with a green screen as if there was a real background/person with them, and the technology is tops =)

[@mauvd88]

Amazing. nice to see how some of it is really done even in the more famous industry.

[@cakcy]

wow! THIS. IS SO EPIC. i can somehow proudly tell you how much i do am appreciate of their acting *_*

[@handlungsspielraum7023]

super nice sound track

[@HANGER187]

Holly smokes thats a lot of work. I am sure they had a department to track, department to rotoscope, department for 3D elements and of course the camera crew. Wonder how many touch these montages of awesomeness? Sick! I thought I was good. Just tucked my tail between my legs and looked for the back door. Simply Marvelous.

[@SupraRXE]

@Binaryfilm it's the TV show "Heroes"

[@zvegas6477]

Okay, this changes everything!

[@smonkey86]

you just reminded me of when I see japanese movies and you can tell the background is drawn or painted.

[@240AG]

Wow...actors and actresses must be extremely talented to work with a greenscreen so much.

[@hackm0d]

@maverickyt it's Lion Heart by Emancipator.

[@code3279]

Awesome video, awesome soundtrack

[@Atheynm]

Truly impressive composting work.

[@dwtkJ00P]

there are spots on the green screen. they will be connected to the picture on the computer so the background will always be moving/truning with the camera. hope you understand it. or just google :P

[@CidsaDragoon]

@Raunoland It isn't, the company is just called Stargate Studios. Although it seems they did some promo when Stargate was on Showtime.

[@LUSEJA]

STUNNING WORK!

[@Faedraismyname]

@noliktavaLV Music: "Lion Heart" by Emancipator (It's written under the clip) :-)

[@mycommentuserid]

I like it, too! Look at the "more info" link in the descriptive box at the upper right. There's a link to the song used: "Lion Heart" by Emancipator.

[@jennilah]

Saw this on OMGfacts, and with basic knowledge on this stuff I was prepared to not be all that surprised. I knew that they do this a lot, but not this much! I'm impressed.

[@flybywire09]

@InanDante It's actually really easy to greenscreen effects in. That's why.

[@CardSharp11]

@MrKingtyrant05 you can use any camera. all you need is a cover of a bright colour(preferably green) you can alter your video with a software called Adobe After Effects. you can look that up and there are some pretty cool youtube lessons for that too.

[@daylightmoonvideo]

Fantastic work!

[@toomanyaccounts]

yes it can be in addition to time consuming. You have to have the people travel to the location, arrange permits, have to take in weather as well as secure the scene. Which depending upon the street only allows say 15 minutes or less of filming. So no reshoots or retakes if something goes wrong. You then have to have security etc. So the amount of people involved skyrocket So for tv shows filming in California a green scene set extension can save a ton of money and time.

[@pun6727]

i have so much respect to the actors/actresses after watching this.

[@Ondemas]

This is just.. too awesome.

[@Webleys]

Saving Grace...first episode...great series!

[@sirpoy]

They are getting pretty good at that!

[@aovideo4415]

Still a great video

[@cutekatebj27]

NOW, THIS IS AMAZING!!! 後製太強大了！！！！

[@TheJMoore]

That is absolutely unbelievable.

[@NelsonStJames]

Which just goes to show that CGI is not the problem with films today -- it's bad CGI. Nobody complains about good CGI because they don't even know they're seeing it.

[@CinematicTechnologies]

Such an incredible job! You used to be able to tell if someone was using a greenscreen, now I can't tell the difference whatsoever!

[@anopinjama]

wow nice video sometimes you fooled me when i was watching my favorite tv show heroes hahaha good work

[@iamafractal]

absolutely amazing

[@KashifSMalik]

@ZitellaImpicciona: Lion Heart" by Emancipator

[@Mnme63]

Love this tune!!!!!!!!! sooo chilled

[@zomgseriosuly]

This is amazing. OMG Facts brought me here too lol.

[@SianaGearz]

@xvidzzz Sometimes they do. Costs for Sin City and 300 were kept down nicely that way, and sci-fi TV series use this extensively. It's the question of cost and quality. Full HD needs much more precise work than SDTV or 720p, and costs a lot more. Theatric, with 4 times the resolution of Full HD, ends up costing another order of magnitude more, and there are still giveaways when something isn't real.

[@lucasbastos10]

amazing work!

[@MadexPL]

Aaaah I knew I recognised the music from somewhere! Time to emancipate :)

[@InuXela]

Great stuff, thanks!!! I noted a wrong panorama stitching in the Moscow Red Square shot. Tower near the Mausoleum was heavily damaged due to incorrect verticals positioning ;)