How did they do this? Alternatively, how can I do this?
Look at this Commerical for National Australia Bank. The bit im interested in is at 0:53, where he pushes through the door and walks out onto some different environment. I usually have a general idea of how to do a technique but this I'm totally stumped.
Any suggestions? The only way I can think of is that they filmed the man pushing through the office door, then filmed him coming out of a door onto the street and then overlapped the two to create the image you see.
If you pause it at 0:55, you can kinda see the point where it changes.
Genesiz is quite correct, it's a simple edit of the same actor going into, and out of a set of doors.. spliced together to make it appear as one motion. An alternative way of getting the same effect is to have the actor walk through a door in front of a green screen while the camera follows him. The background is then put in during post production to get the same effect a bit more seamlessly.
Thanks guys, the greenscreen technique seems a lot less work.
Thanks 
Yes. The greenscreen seems the most obvious!
Good greenscreens and good programs for editing them are quite expensive though... 
This was NOT done with Greenscreening.
You can see it when he bursts through in the new enviorment - the pace he is walking is slightly diffrent to that of the previous enviorment. Also his left arm is in a slightly diffrent position - a touch more forward than the other. Its some careful choreography, editing and compositing.
Simpler than you think really.
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I thought green screen looked most obvious, but who knows?
H is right, this is not greenscreen, that is unneccesary work. all they did was film the actor going out of one door, and then coming out another. then in a compositing prog, like after effects, they used the wall that the door is held in the mask the transition. they basically took the wall (we see the slim side view of it in the add) and melded them together, and cut out the junk footage in both frames. it actually quite easy if you set it up correctly innitially, like having the doors at the exact same height
This is a very nice viedo! I like I a lot hehe!
Yes putting a greenscreen outside the door where he was exiting and filming him coming exiting into the other location is what they did, then just slapped that film onto the greenscreen during editing. It's surprisingly easy, I did stuff like that in highschool. I like this video though, it's motivating. 
Well... I'm not sure if it will change any minds or not, but I watched the video pretty closely, going as close to frame by frame as I could and managed to get this intriguing shot:
[img]http://tinyurl.com/yq39ty[/img]
I was fairly sure this was done with a green screen or something like it until I saw that. Then I realized how much easier it would've been just to film in the office and then splice on the outside bit.
Too bad I'm a photographer and not a filmmaker, I would totally love to know how this is done. I'm intrigued.
This was most definitely not accomplished through green screen. That really would have been uselessly overworking for the rather simple effect. Dolly towards the office door, then go to the other location, and dolly at the same speed out. Just careful choreography and timing.
if your a photographer, you could still achieve a similar effect. just take a picture at the same height inside and outside, and mix them together in photoshop. it shouldnt be too hard. The video way of doing it is just an extension of the still photography method
I dont know but they do this kind of stuff a lot, pretty much every second commercial works like that, or just consider music videos..
They probably just filmed two locations with similar looking doorways and stuck the two together for a bunch of frames.
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| They probably just filmed two locations with similar looking doorways and stuck the two together for a bunch of frames. |
We've kinda already discovered that. 
Your could do this kind of editing with aftereffects, its a compositing trick. Use use a Mask like in photoshop, and you animate it over the character, the white in the mask is the old scene well the new scene is the black, this way you can even blur parts or use grey, its all quite a lot of fun
