THE ESSENTIALS ON TCM   

    For this project, we filmed the famous actor-director, Rob Reiner introducing his 27 'Essentials' for a Turner Classic Movies series on Stage 1 of Ten9Fifty Studios in Culver City, California. Clips from these movies were projected onto a curved wall on one side of Reiner and hanging parallel panels on the other.
    Projecting semi-transparent images onto both sides of the hanging panels was the challenge. After thorough testing, we determined the best approach would be to make the hanging panels from loosely woven fabric and simultaneously use standard projection on the front while inverting the exact same image onto the rear fabric panel. The two images converged onto the center of the screen to produce a unique effect.
    Some of Reiner's 'Essentials,' included such greats as Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder and North by Northwest; Bogart's Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; and Welles' Citizen Kane.