Can I do this shot with my EX1?

PerroneFord said:
Buck,

Remember this is TV. I don't think there was a whole lot of "snake chasing" really going on. This whole deal strikes me as "reality TV" more than anything else. There were multiple video cameras there, several still cameras, and even a fully outfitted underwater camera. Which is where the underwater snake wrestling scenes came from.

The guy claims to be near death from drowning, while the guy with the camera on his face just sits idly by? I don't think so.
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Exactly... After I got familiar with all the behind the camera processes it's just strikes me as silly every kind of "reality tv".

And the admiration goes to those that really generate distinct dramatic energy with the non-fiction material.
 
FrankC said:
You guys are right on. Call me cynical, but I sometimes wonder if all the shots we saw were really in the Amazon. The water looked too clear at some points... made me say Hmmmmmm!
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That shot could be done anywhere.

Loved that crank BTS. Might have to hire a good roller blader.
 
From USA Today 5/13/2003...

"It has been four years since The Matrix had audiences walking out of theaters, rubbing their eyes and scratching their heads....

"What is 'bullet-time'?
The special effect that was created in The Matrix in which the camera twirls around its subject, giving a 360-degree view of the action. The effect has been duplicated dozens of times since."
 
This is from the Wiki. I don't have time at the moment to dig more into this, but I found a lot more info last month in another discussion about this effect:

"In 1980, Tim Macmillan started producing pioneering video work[3] in this field while studying for a BA at the (then named) Bath Academy of Art using 16mm film arranged in a progressing sequence of pinhole cameras.
The first music video to use bullet-time was "Midnight Mover", a 1985 Accept video [4] Bullet time became popularized when John Gaeta and team expanded it temporally and into the digital arena through the incorporation of frame interpolation and image based CGI within the film The Matrix (1999) and through view-morphing techniques pioneered by BUF Compagnie in music videos by Michel Gondry and commercials for, among others, The Gap. Gaeta said of The Matrix's use of the effect:
For artistic inspiration for bullet time, I would credit Otomo Katsuhiro, who co-wrote and directed Akira, which definitely blew me away, along with director Michel Gondry. His music videos experimented with a different type of technique called view-morphing and it was just part of the beginning of uncovering the creative approaches toward using still cameras for special effects. Our technique was significantly different because we built it to move around objects that were themselves in motion, and we were also able to create slow-motion events that 'virtual cameras' could move around – rather than the static action in Gondry's music videos with limited camera moves.[5]
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In popular film culture, Blade was the first film to illustrate super human reflexes dodging bullets in a scene in a park when the character of Blade fires at Stephen Dorf's character, Deacon Frost. Computer generated bullets are also used to illustrate the concept and slow motion camera work.
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Thanks, Perrone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y54AhPzFk4s

"Our technique was significantly different because we built it to move around objects that were themselves in motion..."

So are we talking about the effect--the end result--or are we talking about the technique--the means of achieving the end result? I was referring to the technique.
 
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It looks like there are 8 stills creating the effect. So I'm thinking 8 cameras on a half circle rig. Pretty awesome. But given the level of special effect shooting going on I don't think his life was really in danger, unless this was a re-creation.
 
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