(Research) Cool Effects

In this short clip a student doing media studies from Norway creates an effect where his shadow runs away, this affect could be used in my thriller to create a scary sort of theme where shadows appear. 


"Well, this was kind of an experiment. I wanted to see how it would look if my shadow ran away. I cut myself away from the scene so that only the shadow would remain. The result ist 100% but I think it's a cute little film.. (How it's made: Filmed 3 different things in each scene (the up the street scene in this example); the location (the street), me running (as me), and me running as the shadow. The sequences were exported from Premiere to seperate image files. In each image, or frame, I had to delete the surroundings so that only me (or only my shadow on that sequence) was visible. I then put the two sequences on top of the location sequence. Voila! I also did some simple photoshopping on some scenes, like when the shadow is dead on the ground. The smoke in the film is artificial. I filmed myself having a sigarette behind a black cloth, so that the smoke went through (filmed in front of the cloth of course). I could then put it in the film as gunsmoke and breathing, using luma key. Oh, the car isn't really there either. It was cut in from another clip. The blood is blackcurrant juice)"


This is what the person wrote under his short clip, so i know how to create the effect that i may not or may be able to use in my film.

This other video by the same person is also some great effects that I may wish to use in my video. This effect is just face warping, it would be great to create a super natural effect.


"Ever had this feeling before? No? Something wrong with me?! Oh yes, it's in norwegian. I'm basically saying "What the hell?!" and "Holy crap, crazy shit.." when I'm leaving.. (How it's made: Video cut into images, images imported to Photoshop and messed with, morphed together with WinMorph and edited in Premiere. The sound is made with granulizer in FLStudio..)"


Again once again he has included how he made the effects, I hope I get the chance to try this when doing my word