How to do the silhouette challenge and use filter for the old and the new version?

The silhouette challenge has been trending on social media with a number of netizens have been uploading their versions of the challenge and sharing it. If you are wondering how to do the silhouette challenge, then here is a step by step explanation of how to do the challenge. Read on to know-how.

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What is the silhouette challenge?

• The silhouette challenge involves a user to pose in a doorway in a way that the camera takes only a black silhouette. The black silhouette has to be against a red background.

How to do the silhouette challenge filter?

• Open Snapchat app and head to the camera screen.
• Click on the smiley face icon to the right-hand side of the camera button.
• Then, press ‘explore’ in the bottom right-hand corner.
• In the search bar, type ‘vin rouge’.
• Click on the filter and it will be applied.

Silhouette Challenge song

• A number of users add the silhouette challenge song, Put Your Head on My Shoulder by Paula Anka.

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New version of the silhouette challenge

As the silhouette challenge evolved, a number of users started combining it with the buss challenge. In that the users would create videos where they would pose against a normal background then the video would transition and the background would change to the red background with the user seen as a black silhouette. Many other users were left wondering how to remove red light in the silhouette challenge? While there is not a way to remove the red filter after it has been applied, there are some tricks that a user can use to give a similar effect.

• Find a doorway that you can film in. 
• Stand in front of it and film the first part of the video and film in full lightning. 
• Now, for the silhouette section, you actually need to film the clip on Snapchat and apply a filter called ‘Vin Rouge’. 
• Then, turn off all the lights apart from one light in the room behind you.
• This should make you look like a silhouette. Make sure you wear tight-fitting clothes to add to the effect. 
• Now all you need to do is save both clips to your camera roll and edit them both together. 
• Then, add the Put Your Head on My Shoulder sound. 

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