2007-04-27 02:43:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
They had a stand in for the Elvis and he studied Elvis' movements and then did the same movements from Elvis' original show. Celine sang her part to an empty stage three times looking to her left on cue . Then they took the original Elvis show and the stand in and Celine and used the computer and put it all together. I just watched it on GMA. Lots more complicated than that but basically the way it was done.
EDIT: I looked it up for you, here is the site. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3087711
2007-04-27 02:53:28 · answer #1 · answered by VetSupporter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasnt a hologram. They discussed it on Good Morning America today and, frankly, its all too complicated to explain. Go to their website, and its probably there. For the stage presence they used a body double and somehow for t.v. viewers made it enhanced as Elvis, but the live audience was seeing the double and he was only lip singing. It took Celine many practices to get her parts in sync with the actual Elvis, and act as though they were singing together. How awesome is that technology?
2007-04-27 11:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by BoosGrammy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fans can thank technology. Last week, Dion spent hours on the stage singing her part of the song several times without an audience or anyone next to her, looking to her side on cue.
Then she did the routine again with a Presley body double who lip-synced Presley's song and matched his moves from his 1968 performance.
Finally, all three elements -- Dion by herself, Dion with the body double and the original Presley performance -- were combined through editing and a technique called rotoscoping, which traced Presley from the original footage by cutting him out.
"Rotoscoping allows you to take one image from a pre-existing piece of video and puts him a whole new environment -- completely new use of that same piece of video," Disney digital media designer Joe Husung said.
Similar technology has been used before. It brought Natalie Cole and her late father, Nat King Cole, together to perform "Unforgettable," and allowed Forrest Gump to talk to former President Nixon.
A new British show puts the technology to use every day in "Duet Impossible," in which stars perform with their late idols. If the concept crosses the pond, American audiences may soon see late legends like James Brown and Sinatra rocking the stage again.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3087711&GMA=true
2007-04-28 17:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by Kookie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That "Elvis" was a hologram..
2007-04-27 09:47:17 · answer #4 · answered by Vegas 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋