B&W Background with a Colourized subject....

After a year of using FCE, I've upgraded to FCS2, and I'm excited. These new features/apps look promising....
I'm hoping that someone can give me advice or point me in the right direction for a tutorial. Next week I begin filming a short documentary. The subject for many of the scenes will be a man riding a bike down the street. I wan`t to use the style where the man and bicycle are colour, while the background is black&white/sepia.
Can someone give me advice on how to set up this shot, pre and post? Is there a good tutorial? Does this effect have a proper name so that I can search it?

Is there a good tutorial? Does this effect have a proper name so that I can search it?
"Pleasantville Effect" Look at kenstone.net, long tutorial on this overly used aesthetic.
For multiple items like you want, you'll need to make several color keys and probably do some rotoscoping, a lot of heavy rotoscoping to be exact.
Or, you're better off shooting the subject against green screen and then compositing your subject on the background plate of the street. Sounds ambitious, good luck.
Can someone give me advice on how to set up this shot, pre and post?
What you want to do is awfully complicated to sell realistically and to give advice on in a software tech support forum. If you've never done anything like this before, get on a production set and pay attention to how the lights are rigged, the cameras are placed, etc. You may also want to search and post in a cinematography forum, there are a lot of them out there.

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