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Seance Elite user Talking on the other side with 427 Posts |
Hello all,
I am now in the process of revising and researching for a new effect that I have seem to run into a brick wall. In the past, when I have performed seances, I was able to record the seance using a portable cassette player with a "blank" cassette. The cassette recorded all of the seance and also recorded voices that no one heard during the seance. Credit Docc Hilford's "$1000 Secret Seance" for that little gem. Now, my challege is to record seances using video. What I would like is just a hint of something that no one sees until the video is played back, with no discernable shape or identity. Something that the viewers will wonder, "What was THAT?". My parameters are that the camera be on a tripod and recording all of the area of the seance. I turn it on before the seance starts and after everyone is seated. I am the only one to turn it off. I have both an analog VHS-C camera and a miniDV camera. Any ideas? Much appreciated, Dave |
drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
Dave,
Since you can film over a used tape with a VHS camera, there must be a thingie in there that does what the disconnected thingie in your cassette recorder used to do before you did the deed. So if your blank VHS tape remembered seeing a fleeting white shape on a dead black background in a past life... Just speculating here, I don't know for sure. Yours, Paul |
magicalmischief Loyal user Massachusetts 239 Posts |
This kind of effect can be accomplished in post production. Ideally use the miniDV as it is easier to get into a computer. For specific details, PM me and I can help. I am a videographer in MA and have a lot of equipment that can help you with this effect,.
Seems to me that death is just natures way of telling us to SLOW DOWN!
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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
Yes, but ideally you just hand them the videotape right after the seance and they watch it later. It appears to them that there was no opportunity for post production, and indeed there was not.
Yours, Paul |
Seance Elite user Talking on the other side with 427 Posts |
You're right, Paul. With the audio cassette, I'd prepare six at a time, put them back in their original wrappers ( after some work with an x-acto knife to get them out ), and when the time came, I'd ask one of the participants to grab a blank cassette from the pile.
The participant would unwrap the cellophane, put it in the recorder and push record. I would tell them to press the stop button after the seance and take it out for theirs' to keep. This reinforced in their minds the tape was not altered or switched. Great stuff. I've heard from some of the people that have the cassette, they've heard the "other voices" and were very very afraid now. The video cassette should be prepared the same way as I described for the audio tape. Herein my challege. Thanks Paul for your suggestion, I'm looking into that and seeing if that is true. Related note - Check out "White Noise" (EMP recordings) when it comes avaliable. Dave |
Mystician Inner circle Wallachia 3485 Posts |
Seance, on VCRs and camcorders, the erase head is built into the audio-control head, which is to the right of the whole mechanism, and resembles a regular audio head.
This may differ on some high-end HiFi models, but it's been so long since I worked on VCRs I don't quite remember. The video heads themselves however are on the cylinder, the big shiny tilted disc you see in the back, which spins at 1800rpm. Do not touch this, literally. The heads are mounted in tiny gaps along it's circumference, and can be broken very, very easily. In any case, you'd probably want the schmematic of the camera to be sure you're snipping the right wire ! These things are light-years more complex than a tape recorder. I might be able to help, what model and brand VHS-C camcorder are you using ?
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Osiris Special user 610 Posts |
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On 2005-03-30 06:25, drwilson wrote: Actually Paul, I think Magicalmischief's thought processes may just lead him down that path... something about that mini-CD disc brings thoughts to my mind about other recorded prediction methods, if you know what I mean... |
drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
As in CW MCP, yes.
Yours, Paul |
handa Inner circle Pittsburgh, PA 1357 Posts |
I've seen an EVP-related magic effect for sale on Ebay. The seller is from the UK.
Does anybody know anything more about this particular item? Chris |
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