Good God...how in the F--- did they do that?? That was beautiful!! I mean they showed him walking right off the stage at the end and everything...that's nuts!!
that was surreal. i had to watch it twice. i wish it was true that he would come back only in our greatest dreams that would happen. that was hard to take though. pictureing freddie singing that song considering it was his last video. that one had to be hard for jim and peter to watch.
I assume that was just video editing, or do they have a way of it seeming like freddie is there to those who are live in the studio? Like some sort of projector?
TheOpposition. wrote: I assume that was just video editing, or do they have a way of it seeming like freddie is there to those who are live in the studio? Like some sort of projector?
If I had to guess, I think they probably did this - isolated Freddie's image from the original TATDOOL rushes, used motion control cameras to make sure the camera moves of the stage and performers would match the footage of Freddie, made sure the stage lighting would match the Freddie footage, shot the performance once without a stand-in for Freddie for the close-ups and used a virtual CGI Freddie with matched movements for the long shots (the distance and lighting meaning only a lower resolution CGI double would be necessary), then had a body double perform on stage before the audience, and then the two performances were edited together so that it looks like Freddie walks offstage at the end, when its in fact the body double. That'd be my guess anyway. They could also have used a very talented mime or dancer as the body double to match Freddie's movements very carefully for the long shots instead of using a CGI Freddie created based around Freddie's actual performance, but it would be trickier and would make the editing a lot harder to match smoothly from the close-ups to the long shots (which is really what helps create the illusion that Freddie is "there" - that and an audience that is playing along). That's how I would assume they did it, but if anyone knows for sure, I'd love to read about it. That kind of thing is interesting to me.