Ghost Footage

Ghost Footage, originally known as "Marcus is a Ghost", is a four minute improve video. The video as of now is the most technically advanced of Charlie face videos, as well as marking the the first time the Charlies have collaborated with Gabe Gillette.



Synopsis
john and Brent are seen discussing the death of their friend, Marcus. Marcus's ghost then pops out of nowhere. After a sort discussion, The ghost of Steve appears, he finds a dimensional rift in the center of the room. This rift is the separation of the human zone and the ghost zone. Hilarity ensues and takes John in to the Ghost dimension.



Special Effects
Much of the videos attention came from it's use of special effects. These were created by Gabe Gillette with a crappy freeware program. Although now in days Gabe has a much more sophisticated program that is light years ahead of anything he could do at the time this video was created.

The Ghost effect was achieved by filming the blank scenery for a short period of time. Then cast was added and the video was filmed. Within the editor the blank scenery was added to low "layer", while the actual action was added to an upper layer. A simple effect was added to the upper layer giving it a transparent effect. This effect is only visible on subjects that where not filmed with the scenery. The video was split in half so the effect only applies to the left side of the screen.

The "electro" effect was a very simple animation insert, it was animated in Flash, then converted to a video clip that was layered over footage. There wasn't very much to this effect and it only took like an hour to do.

Quality Issues
Due to technical limitations, the video was compressed many times over giving it a very fuzzy/flat look. This was remedied in the second ghost video.