Fading Character

Creator's Corner Directing Help & Tips
#1

Hello,
I’ve been trying to make my character disappear for the last 3 hours! I’ve made a couple of overlays that are the same as my background, but I can never get them to work! This is what I have so far…

EXT. ROYAL BALLROOM TERRACE - NIGHT with INT.BLUE NIGHT (my overlay)

EXT. ROYAL BALLROOM TERRACE - NIGHT with INT.BLUE NIGHT at layer 2
&CARTER moves to layer 1 and MAY moves to layer 3
@overlay FLOWER opacity 0.5 in 0

I would like my character to be talking about how she loves her soulmate, but he isn’t there, so I thought I could potentially come up with them kissing, but he fades, because he isn’t there!
If you have any ideas please let me know! :grinning:

#2

Try getting an overlay of what zone they are in (EX: if they are in zone 1, get an overlay of only zone 1 as you don’t want it to take up too much space, than have May at a higher layer than the faded overlay, and Carter at a lower layer than it. EX:

EXT. ROYAL BALLROOM TERRACE - NIGHT with BALLROOM TERRACE (the overlay) to layer 1
&overlay BALLROOM TERRACE opacity 0% in 0
&MAY spot 1.000 000 000 in zone 1 at layer 2 AND MAY is kiss_passionate_loop_rear
&CARTER spot 1.000 000 000 in zone 1 at layer 0 AND CARTER is kiss_passionate_loop
@pause for a beat
@overlay BALLROOM TERRACE opacity 100% in 5

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#3

Thank you so much for all of your help! I’ve put these things into my script, but it says that there’s an error! I took 2 snapshots so that you could see them as well!
:grinning:

Problem

#4

Error

#5

is INT. BLUE NIGHT an overlay? If so, I recommend changing the name as I think the Portal recognizes it as a background.

#6

I changed it, but it came up with the same error! Do you have any recommendations? If not, that’s totally okay too!

#7

Pro

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#8

OHHHHHH, change the “to layer 1” to “at layer 1”, my bad.

#9

Thank you so much!!! It worked! I also had another question! How can I make a overlay for that particular background? It seems that when I save the exact same picture from the catalog, it’s too big for it being an overlay! Thank you again!:smile:

#10

Yes, I recommend saving just 1 zone of the picture of a time.
EX: Have an overlay for just zone 1, then one for zone 2, and zone 3 as separate overlays.
I ran into that problem once before as well.

#11

Okay! Thank you!

#12

take off the %

#13

write: &overlay BLUE NIGHT opacity 0 in 0
in line 24
Unless it’s already fixed.

#14

I have gone ahead and moved this topic to the Directing Help & Tips section of the forums. @May_17 please take some time to review our forum tutorial which helps explain where to correctly create topics on the forums. Thanks!

#15