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HOWTO: Make a Movie Like The Scanner Darkly
1. Get a camera that takes QuickTime movies.
2. Take a movie of something. In the example, I video taped my dog.
3. Copy the movie to your computer.
4. Open it in QuickTime Pro.
5. Go to File > Export... and select the Export: as Movie to Image Sequence. Click Save.
6. Go to File > Export... and select the Export: as Sound to Wave. Click Save
7. Open the first frame in Photoshop.
8. Use the following effects, curtesy of egeniuses:
Artistic>Poster Edges Filter (10,1,6) but adjust accordingly
Noise>Dust and Scratches (1,1)
Stylize>Diffuse (anisotropic)
Artistic>Film Grain (2,16,10) adjust accordingly
9. Save the file and repeat with the rest of the frames.
10. When you are done converting the frames, go back to QuickTime.
11. Go to File > Open Image Sequence. Click on one of the image files you edited.
12. Go to File > Export. For Export, put Movie to AVI. Click Save.
As for the comments about the first 24 minutes being Half Baked, that's actually the first hour plus. This story is similar to an episode of the Twilight Zone. The first 7/8ths of the film are set up for a pay off, there are hints of something else going on, but they don't beat you on the head. Then you reach that moment where something simple, changes everything and the last 10-20 minutes of the film, investigate those changes.
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