Old DMA Ninja Film

My latest After Effects project was to take 1 second footage of two ninjas provided by our professor and key out the bluescreen and put in appropriate background.

Because I was a big fan of the early Mortal Kombat arcades and couldn't help but think of Raiden and Shang Tsung, I started looking for levels from either MK1 or MK2.

But, I decided the footage would look out of place on those backdrops, I just googled "Japan" and found an old grainy photo at http://peace.maripo.com/images/slc_japan.jpg

That made this project for me, but after colour correction and matching the grain, it was missing one touch of that old film look. I remembered an early tutorial on videocopilot.net which featured blank 8mm film. I added it and voila.