How to do a shot with people moving rapidly around on stationary person~garden state

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boo9radley

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I want to do a shot where there's one person sitting in the middle, but everyone around him is blurry and moving very rapidly, like the scene in Garden State when he is getting high.

Any ideas on how to make this happen?
 
Just as I thought, it's a time lapse. Besides some skillful editing, the middle guy has to stand very still.

It's so easy to do I'm surprised it isn't done more often.
 
Hate to disagree, but this was clearly done with After Effects, The new time warp features of the 2 newest versions are awesome for this purpose! You are correct in assuming that the actor in the middle had to stay very still for the shots however.
 
After watching that tutorial, it's clear that some of both methods were used. They did a lot of CC time bend, but a bunch of it is time lapsed. Esp. the part where he is sitting on the couch and we only see the back of his head.

Thanks for the heads up on that tutorial. Very informative!
 
They did it in camera in "Garden State".
Zach Braff had to sit still for quiet a long time and they shot it with just a few frames per second, using Panavision's Remote Speed Control.

Braff and the DP discuss that approach on the director's commentary on the DVD.
They didn't use any After Effects . The movie was finished photocemically and they wouldn't have had any money for that. There is just one shot, where they used some matte paintings and a digital extended camera move.
 
medaocdp said:
They did it in camera in "Garden State".
Zach Braff had to sit still for quiet a long time and they shot it with just a few frames per second, using Panavision's Remote Speed Control.

Braff and the DP discuss that approach on the director's commentary on the DVD.
They didn't use any After Effects . The movie was finished photocemically and they wouldn't have had any money for that. There is just one shot, where they used some matte paintings and a digital extended camera move.
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Which shot would that be? The massive quarry?
 
The clip looks like it opened up the shutter quite a bit to get that streaking effect too, so you'd have to factor that into your frame rate equation as well.
 
It looks to me to either be shot normally or in slow motion then a plugin effect called twixtor will help you smoothly control the motion....seems like it was mostly done in post
 
I would shot the guy in front of a greenscreen at normal speed and the crowd with time lapse (or normal speed for smoother result and speed it up in post) than throw everyting tigether in After effects.

If you have a camera move be very precice or use a motion controll system.

Because of the dreamlike nature of those shots you can get away without a expensive motion controll rig, if you are carefull.

Frank
 
boo9radley said:
I want to do a shot where there's one person sitting in the middle, but everyone around him is blurry and moving very rapidly, like the scene in Garden State when he is getting high.

Any ideas on how to make this happen?
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Tom Tykwer of "Lola rennt"(1998, "Run Lola Run") likes this sort of teqhnique. For many of these types of shots the central figure/figures would be 'stationary' for some period of time, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, depending on the movement in the environment, and then using various means, slow shutter on the camera during filming, or some form of post processing, get the desired blurred effect.

In After Effects, one could get the 'blurred' effect and just have the stationary character(s) maintain their pose for the duration of the shot. So one could do it with ordinary video cameras that 'we' can afford that may not have good 'stop motion' and shutter angle adjustments.

In the compilation of shorts under the title of "Paris, T'aime", he does a number of such shots of the central couple of the story, and given Tykwer's inclination to do 'time after time' sequences, what appear to be 'identical' sequences are often slightly different...

Here's Tykwer's short on that compilation.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbvKn88yf-Q
 
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