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Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Effective movie

Chesham Methodist Players have spent the last few months making a film called Miranda Dreams. This has involved location shoots in Chesham, Amersham, Rickmansworth and Somerset, and is their first foray into CSO (green acreen)* special effects. Miranda Dreams is written and directed by member Penny Longhurst who has recently graduated with a degree in Performing Arts from London University. It tells the story of twin princesses from the kingdom of Molonna. Separated as babies, the eldest, Miranda is brought through a magic portal to our world where she is raised as a normal girl until she starts having strange dreams. Are these messages from her unknown twin? Will evil uncle Rath find the girls and kill them? The film is being shown on Saturday 12 July at 7.45pm in Chesham Methodist Church Hall, Bellingdon Road. The evening includes red carpet walkdown, awards ceremony, bloopers reel and refreshments. Admission is free but there will be a collection taken for charity.
*Wikipedia.org explains (with US spelling): colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC) otherwise known as chroma key, greenscreen and bluescreen, or color keying, is a technique for mixing two images or frames together, in which a color (or a small color range) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it. It is used for weather forecast broadcasts where the presenter appears to be standing in front of a map, but in the studio it is actually a blue (or green) background. Different weather maps are added on those parts in the image where the color is blue. If the meteorologist wears blue clothes, they clothes will be replaced with the background video. Blue and green are considered the colors least like skin tone.

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