In-Camera Transformation Effect

For the month of October RocketJump FRIGHT School releases spooky, horror-themed filmmaking tutorials! This week, we’re recreating a famous special effect done by director Rouben Mamoulian and DP Karl Struss in the 1931 adaptation of “Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.“ Using contrasting colors in our lighting and makeup, while shooting in black and white, we’re able to create the spooky transformation effect in-camera, without any computer generated VFX. Mamoulian and Struss used specially-made filters of colored gla