In thinking about how I might combine my ideas and show both the past and present Sheffield, and more specifically, how I can represent the two separate eras visually, I've been looking at similar moments in films.
I think the most obvious example are the crossfade of Titanic, which although 15 years old, still look amazing today, and are without doubt the best part of the film for many. I checked the film out and cut all the crossfades from it, which show the glamorous ship as it was back then, and the rusted wreckage as it lays at the ocean floor today.
The transitions themselves are smooth as silk, and absolutely spot on, both movement wise, and graphically, and perhaps the best, most famous example of the effect going...
The actual technique can be done in different ways, either through CGI like seen in Titanic, or with lighting effects and projections. Being a bit of a film buff, I also remember such an effect in the vastly underrated comedy horror, The Frighteners, starring Michael J Fox, directed by Peter Jackson, and actually beating Titanic to the post by a whole year! Again, I cut the parts out of the film that show the effect in action, in the hopes of taking note and getting both inspiration and visual ideas...
In this version, the effect is done more through acting and lighting, with the dark and gloomy transitioning with the bright and shiny. Some shots have the whole process in one, which takes you right from one era to the next, and both examples certainly give me something to think about in terms of how I might best pull off my own transitions.
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