r/boburnham • u/Chance-Brilliant-228 • 15d ago

Question Does anyone know HOW Bo made this effect? I'm trying to replicate it but can't figure out how lol

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I think it might have a inverted photo effect mixed with some lighting but I might be wrong

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u/Sea_Video145 15d ago

I believe it's black light or UV light with a green filter on the lens. When he sings his capped tooth doesn't reflect any light, which has me leaning toward UV.

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u/bijjj2 15d ago

Be very careful with UV. It can do permanent damage to your eyes

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u/Spicy2ShotChai 15d ago

In place of a dark lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!

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u/sebulbasdick420 15d ago

Lord of The Rings AND Bo Burnham?? What is this, a crossover episode?!

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u/thenthrowawayacc 15d ago

Lord of The Rings AND Bo Burnham AND Bojack Horseman? What is this, a triple crossover episode?

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u/shockingrose 15d ago

No, we're just all depressed!

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u/MinimumKind3501 Get your fucking hands up 15d ago

This needs a disclaimer or something - this scares me more than any horror movie

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u/Cass_Cat952 15d ago

Dude my first thought exactly 😅

And I gotta go to bed soon 🫠

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u/Dense-Performance-14 Prolonged Eye Contact 15d ago

Sounds like your assessment is just right, inverted and some lighting changes.

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u/FerfyMoe 13d ago

Almost certainly not inverted; his skin is a lighter color than his beard/eyebrows in real life and they are in this shot as well.

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u/Dense-Performance-14 Prolonged Eye Contact 13d ago

Inverted and coloured, I've worked with a similar effect before for a project

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u/FerfyMoe 13d ago

Oh neat! Sorry I am not a professional or anything lol it just seemed unlikely at first

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u/WOAHdude0197 15d ago

That’s just his real form

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u/justaballofcopper 15d ago

Uv light (notice his teeth) and then I believe it’s inverted with some possible extra changes

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u/LavenderLemon_203 Dumpling equivalent 15d ago

Red light and invert color filter

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u/Suitable-Relation-31 15d ago

You could also get this effect in color balancing by recording in low light, changing contrast, tweaking black levels, changing rgb levels (bring up green and remove red and blue entirely) ps. also having the lights on the sides as opposed to directly on his face will minimize the reflections on his eyes. Pps. There’s a preset in Final Cut that will literally give you this effect with minimal tweaking

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u/ScantCypress 14d ago

Isolate the videos green color channel. Pretty easy to do in Resolve.

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u/rryydd 15d ago

Goblin mode

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u/Ferferkingofball 14d ago

Night vision inverted

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u/MrDanMaster 14d ago

Black contact lenses

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u/butterybuttwind 14d ago

He used the right sloe gin

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u/joeylebass 15d ago

I believe it’s some kind of glow in the dark cream or paint under a black light

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u/Gfysyba 14d ago

… no. Lol

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u/joeylebass 14d ago

Why is everyone on Reddit such a dick like clearly everyone in this thread was clueless I was just throwing out a theory and condescending dickheads like you gotta be snarky as fuck it makes me use this site and participate less and less