Teaser for our new wakeboarding film

ProfessorChaos said:
as the camera moves, i'm pretty sure the character is CGed...atleast thats what i can see from the video.
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Too bad we're not getting any feedback from mvp1 on the matrix move. :( It's sweet. Maybe Jarred Land or Barry Green could give some feedback? As for ProfessorChaos' suggestion that it's CG composited with the live video, if that is so then it is stunning CG work. I use Discreet 3ds max 7 and just to get those textures is an art, e.g., the matching surfaces of the wakeboard, swimtrunks, and especially hair in "CG" with the DV footage. Arrgh!

I'm gonna do a google search on the "matrix" move and see what I come up with. Maybe someone has some instructions for low budget filmmakers. Or in my case no budget.
 
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i liked everything (especially the ramped slo-mo's and the shots of the sunset, etc) except i personally didn't like the first song, sounded like staind or something (a little too mainstream for something as non-mainstream as this video) and i agree that the voiceover kind of ruins the "coolness" that you had going in the video. (the first voice over seemed to serve a purpose, but the second one seemed like it really didn't need to be there) but all in all this looks very very good, keep it up
 
Well, there's that little match-move at the top of the sequence - looks like a push in. If you look at the Matrix move frame by frame, starting one frame after the match move, it looks like the guy is laying on a table.

It also looks (probably due to the encode) like the bottom of the wakeboard reflects the process surface (green) and keys out when it is just off-perpendicular to camera. Conversely, this could also be the foliage reflecting off the bottom of the board.

At the same time, you can actually see the tow-boat - or a facsimile thereof - right in the middle of the effect - at about frame eight. This leads me to believe that there was actually an array of twelve slaved still cameras hidden in the bushes around the shot, just as Mannex would have done it. Could be eighteen? The boarder would have gone by in multiple passes to nail the shot.

Dunno, it's hard to discern at that resolution.

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I talked to a friend of mine who does that kind of sh!t, and here's what he and his co-worker came up with about the matrix move. I agree that if you look at it frame by frame, you can analyze it much better.

"We theorize that they zoomed in on him> stop the video> took a bunch of pictures of the trees, tied them together horribly> then took him, bending down grabbing the board similar to the pose on the video, and green screen shot him all around> and just put it all together.

It just seems to be the only fizzable way"
 
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What's happening here!!!??? I need to know how this was done!!! The above explanation seems feasable, except for the green screen part. Something small budget, like this film certainly couldn't afford the budget to rent out all those digital still cams and then interpolate all the in-betweens. Also, as hard as that wakeboarder could hold himself still, I find it hard to believe that they could position him that closely to the original shot on the water and match all the lighting.(Assuming they used a video cam on a dolly to track around) Also, how would they get the hair position and the boarders shorts to be in the same spot? So many questions!!! Does anybody know how to get in touch with the person who started this thread? I've PM'd him, e-mail, everything with no response! Grrr.
 
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They put the guy on his back with the same gear and photograph or video him turning. You can see his hair is not moving with the speed of the wakeboarding and the water spray disappears......and the arm holding the handle changes position just slightly.
 
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