I am just curious, how they put her twice in the same screen š§ ? Was it filmed separately and then combined?
When filming scenes where the actor/actress has to appear twice on the screen, there are multiple ways to do it. - filming the same scene with different shots/point of views, so the actor doesn't appear on the same shot but on seperate shots. It makes it look like they are talking or present in the scene without needing to mix and match the images.
- Filming the same scene twice. Once for each character, with the main actor that plays one of the role and then another similar looking actor that plays the other role. They film the scene, they exchange roles and film the same scene. In Post-production, they layer both shots at the same time, often manually cropping off a bit from both shots in order to make them line up correctly with the background. It's very time consuming but the result is often very nice.
- One last way way would be to film one shot with main actor + other similar looking actor and overimpose the main actor's face onto the other actor. This is often hard to do right and there are loads of warps in the image. The least good option.
I have a question:In the series Zhou Shu Yi and his father, but also others in the series sometimes mix in Japanese…
Iām a bit late in responding, but I think itās mostly because the actor for Zhou Shu Yi (YU) himself is half Japanese, although we donāt know if it was added solely for him or another reason. If youāre interested, some people on Reddit answered the same question but with more details than I indicated: https://www.reddit.com/r/boyslove/comments/v0c4wi/do_they_occassionaly_speak_in_japanese_in_we_best/
I put it on hold in episode 3. Has it gotten better?
Yes it has. The backstory between the pair has been explained, the relationship has gotten better and the ML has been proven not to be a total ass. But there is still the second ML between them.
- filming the same scene with different shots/point of views, so the actor doesn't appear on the same shot but on seperate shots. It makes it look like they are talking or present in the scene without needing to mix and match the images.
- Filming the same scene twice. Once for each character, with the main actor that plays one of the role and then another similar looking actor that plays the other role. They film the scene, they exchange roles and film the same scene.
In Post-production, they layer both shots at the same time, often manually cropping off a bit from both shots in order to make them line up correctly with the background. It's very time consuming but the result is often very nice.
- One last way way would be to film one shot with main actor + other similar looking actor and overimpose the main actor's face onto the other actor. This is often hard to do right and there are loads of warps in the image. The least good option.
If youāre interested, some people on Reddit answered the same question but with more details than I indicated: https://www.reddit.com/r/boyslove/comments/v0c4wi/do_they_occassionaly_speak_in_japanese_in_we_best/