FAT MONSTER FILMS presents "O2" ... Every. Breath. Counts.

Looks like there has to be some compositing at some point, because there are at least two places where Billy shows up from one shot to the next in a way he couldn't possibly get to in time.

But yeah, great video. Though I don't fully understand why they so blatantly reveal the dolly track at that point. I mean, why make that choice when they have such a cool effect going on.
 
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Mark Harris said:
Looks like there has to be some compositing at some point, because there are at least two places where Billy shows up from one shot to the next in a way he couldn't possibly get to in time.

But yeah, great video. Though I don't fully understand why they so blatantly reveal the dolly track at that point. I mean, why make that choice.
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The places where he does that is a slow frame rate, so you'd have extra time to get into a new location, it is possible if rehersed enough I guess.

My guess on the dolly track is someone panned the wrong way and the directors went "SH*T that was the best take! Oh well, keep it in for artistic purposes".

I'm guessing Mark doesn't mind if I hijacked his thread eh?
 
Mark Harris said:
... Though I don't fully understand why they so blatantly reveal the dolly track at that point. I mean, why make that choice when they have such a cool effect going on.
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I was wondering the same thing. But I didn't mind that they did it! (at least from the perspective of a guy who likes to breakdown and analyze things.)
 
One way to do it woud be to have Corrigan on a treadmill and track him into the shot moving across. If corrigan and the camera are stationary while he's walking on the treadmill then you could move him through the shot.

Do we ever see people passing infront of Corrigan or just foreground pieces of scenery and frames etc.

Mark Harris said:
... Though I don't fully understand why they so blatantly reveal the dolly track at that point. I mean, why make that choice when they have such a cool effect going on.
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I wouldn't be surprised if one of the reasons they showed us the dolly track was to sell the illusion more. They're kind of protesting too much "Know look, it was really one take, here's the proof"

So maybe there was a dolly going by all the sets and extras, because the people in the background move at a constant speed and then billy was put in later.

This would also explain why he disappears between sets sometimes, we don't see him walk through the big panning shot that goes over the dolly track, he's already there waiting in that next set

I would expect this kind of trickery from a guy who did this:
HOW MICHAEL GONDRY FAKED SOLVING A RUBIK'S CUBE WITH HIS FEET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVsaWjzsds&feature=related

JACK BLACK's RESPONSE TO MICHAEL GONDRY SOLVING A RUBIK's CUBE WITH HIS FEET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kuXyaIhLg&feature=related
 
Well before the dolly reveal they panned back to show the borders between sets so they obviously made a decision to "break the wall" when they shot this. Given that they could have easily designed the move to shoot around the "horn" the other way without revealing the track they intended to do this.

Taken to an even greater extreme is the video for "War of the Worlds" done by the great Sam Brown: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/86533/1592792

Interesting discussion on antville here: http://videos.antville.org/stories/1507849/
 
the girl band member does cross in front of him once, but the three of them are in the foreground

there does seem to be some ramping in the background on the porn set

Bill comes to a full stop, but I think only once does he do so mid walking, he also kind of jumps into this standing position, so that could be the one time they worked out timing the tread mill to stop so it wouldn't seem like he was on a treadmill.

Dunno, just a theory, makes sense but there are few times it seems like it would be tough to pull off this way.

... I am a smarty pants at procrastination. Any other VFX videos I can review before I actually get to work today at 3:30 in the frickin' afternoon :)
 
Charlie Anderson said:
I didn't find that video to be all that impressive to be honest
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I liked it. But someone made a comment on that paged that stuck with me. Would have been nice to have the guy standing in the middle of the blast when it went off.

Would have been super easy shoot him there preblast, drop him into the shot with the explosion, then roto him out with a feathered edge over the few frames before the pigment obscures everything,
 
I went through the video and jotted down some times:

If it is composited at least the first 42 seconds he's actually on set as he's sitting down and then at 0:42 the set casts a shadow on his head and he walks through the set.
0:58 - slight shake on the dolly once it speeds up, probably operator error
1:27 - the camera moves to reveal the set and corgan turns towards teh camera slightly, this could be compositin
1:30 - the only cut I can see hidden in a sudden camera move
1:45 - corgan interacts with the set
1:53 - weird halo around corgan's head, suggests croma key
2:14 - shadow of corgan on D'arcy
2:49 - shadow of the set on Corgan's head
3:17 - shadow of band members on the post
3:23 - shadow of Corgan on D'arcy

Remember this video was done almost 10 years ago, so take that into consideration as well, it's pretty innovative even if it's composited!
 
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