Interesting Camera technique - how is it done?

yes that set up would be, the cheapest way i could come up with doing it would to have the subject perform at half speed and move the camera manually, and if it was too much you could have a cut after each movement and try cut it together.

anyone else got any other cheap ideas to pull it off?
 
With an effect like this, a cheap idea to replace the actual technique will probably result in an equally cheap result. It might be more worthwhile to find a different - yet equally interesting - effect that is more easily accomplished.
 
Like the Presidents of the United States Video that was shot on cell phones? :)

Go to Wal*Mart and buy 30 $8 digital still cameras. Mount them on PVC tube. Pop off all the shutter buttons and wire them to go off from a single switch. Run your two video cams on either side of the tube. With one frame of tweening this could get you two seconds of movement through from one camera position to another, under $300. If you wanted them to keep moving through the motion like the OK GO video, you'd have to find a way to trigger the shutters in sequence... find yourself an electronics person to do that.

Personally I think it would be way easier to have them run it at 50 or 33 1/3 and then speed it up. You'd have to use a dolly but you could build something cheap. Plus you could have regular-speed things going on too if you wanted to mess with people.
 
ProfessorU said:
Like the Presidents of the United States Video that was shot on cell phones? :)

Go to Wal*Mart and buy 30 $8 digital still cameras. Mount them on PVC tube. Pop off all the shutter buttons and wire them to go off from a single switch. Run your two video cams on either side of the tube. With one frame of tweening this could get you two seconds of movement through from one camera position to another, under $300. If you wanted them to keep moving through the motion like the OK GO video, you'd have to find a way to trigger the shutters in sequence... find yourself an electronics person to do that.

Personally I think it would be way easier to have them run it at 50 or 33 1/3 and then speed it up. You'd have to use a dolly but you could build something cheap. Plus you could have regular-speed things going on too if you wanted to mess with people.
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thats a great idea Iv heard of that but never had the time to try it.
 
It actually looks like a 'grid' of cameras recording in tandem.

I agree with the 'find the cheapest cameras you can find' and make a grid. turn em all on and have fun in post.
 
Hmmm. This doesn't appear to be "bullet time" unless I missed something in the shooting. This looks like the camera was simply moved around from spot to spot and the footage shot during those periods when the camera was actually moving was sped up in post. Another give away is that the band members are actually moving while the motion takes place. Bullet time 'freezes' the subject being shot. Just my 2 cents, though. I could be mistaken.
 
The only difference between this and the bullet time concept is the timing of the separate cameras. If they go off simultaneously, you get a pause and move through the pause. If they go off rapidly, you get bullet time. If they go off at frame rate, you've got the effect from the video.

I'm guessing that the video actually got their effect with computers but the concept is the same.
 
i dont think you need 30 cameras to do this -- it looks as if they pan from about 4 - 5 angles for each "shot" (it appears they shoot the drummer seperately, the lead singers face seperately, etc)

soo, with a decent budget it could be done alright I think
 
slightly interesting effect, but *MAN* that gets old fast...

It looks like they had a multi-camera rig with several cameras running at once, and then switched in post.
 
I think it is a mix between grids of cameras bullet time style and post-production morphing, probably there are full motion cameras at both extremes and and array of a few still cameras in between, the main problem here would be synchronization, but I guess some electronic wise guy would easily solve it... however I think it's kind of annoying after 20 seconds, so I guess it could find placement in one particular special shot, but nothing much more...
 
It looks more like they shot with say 3 cameras. Set in a grid horizontally or vertically dependent on the shot. Each one shooting the same time. Then they employ a frame interpolation technique to go from one shot to the other. Probably over 4 or 5 frames. Like the Rolling stones video some years back. But as the shots are in one direction, there's less of a problem with angle changes for the interpolator.

So they move the rig around for each set of shots and get coverage - hence in front, from behind etc... Then cut between the interpolated shots as and when.

Richard
 
Or build in a studio a sphere room on a platform, with mechanical 3D motion (like a plastic globe on the table) some strong people to make the movement and the camera stands still... ( I'm just joking here()

Or shoot some people in the green/grid studio with marks on their body and build in 3D animation the room and place 2D video in the 3D world, and make the new movement with the virtual camera...

Mix that up with other shots with the audience the dancing etc ( same shots you used for the 2D video in the 3D world) .
 
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