Filming Backplates for CGI

By Eric Huyton (Eyefish)

Most feature films and many television programmes now contain an element of CGI. As technology becomes more affordable and imaginations feed an appetite for ever more ground breaking programmes, understanding how to produce good CGI is becoming a necessary skill for most production companies.

This "Guide to" will give you a grounding in how to film backplates for CGI-enhanced sequences.

Filming Backplates for CGI

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Mike Coles

I am an experienced film and video cameraman. I work in drama and documentary across a wide range of subjects including Science, Archaeology, History, Music and the Arts.