Ghost in a Mirror

It was around 10.00pm yesterday when I was so stressed reading Thermo-Fluid text-book for two hours thanks to the test coming up this Thursday. The laptop was in front of me and while I randomly watching videos on YouTube, I came across interesting video effect tutorials using Adobe After Effect. "Well, this is interesting", I thought. I called my housemate, Zhariq who is well-kwon for his 'why-not attitude' and asked if he is willing to be an actor in my experiment, not to my surprise he nodded (he seemed in a bit tense studying as well I reckon). Then we shoot the action in my bathroom before I had the Adobe After Effect downloaded. The video was basically to create a 'ghost' effect in a mirror by combining two video layers, I'd say it is the very same principal as 'photoshopping' two images except that they are videos. It was indeed more complicated than photoshopping an image because we are dealing with video containing lots of frames (hundreds of images). Since this was my first attempt, I must admit that it was far from perfect mainly caused by the poor ambiguous lighting captured by the cheapo camera I was using, less attention to disturbances such as shadows and of course it was my first time using Adobe After Effect but hey it was just for fun, who cares. So here how I did it :

Video Layer 1 : Zhariq act as a 'ghost'

Video Layer 2 : He is washing his face

Final Video : Combination of both layers

Interesting?

p/s : ni da bosan sgt buat kije xde pekdah cenggini.hahaha