This time we're analyzing a brief tutorial on how to fool the viewers of a film into believing that five or more people can make up an entire crowd. This can be done in a few different ways. By having a small group of five or so people standing in the background and having the actor closer to the camera with a wide lens. When the actors are moving around in the background, the scene feels crowded and heavily populated. For less crowded scenes, simply having a person walk in front of or behind the actor(s) can make the area look more populated than it actually is. Using computer editing and composition, a group of walkers can appear to be an entire army of people by shooting the same people in different places and editing them into the same scene. Using these techniques can save a filmmaker a lot of money, but they may not work as well for some scenes as well as others.
I thought that this was a very useful article to read. I may try to use it in a film if ever given a chance. I learned how to make a not-so-crowded scene look like a crowded scene: few actors required. How does the wide angle lens make a difference? What are the differences between the different types of lenses. This is a cost effective method of filling up a shot. Every filmmaker should know how to do these things.
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