Slow Motion Golf Shot

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goformark

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Alright my fellow film buffs, I am in need of some advice from your brilliant minds..
The company I work for is looking to do a 30 sec intro for a website for a local professional golfer…let’s call him ‘Puma Forrest’ for privacy purposes We’ve squeezed our collective creative juices and have a few awesome ideas.
What we want to accomplish is an extreme slow-motion shot of Puma swinging his golf club, and making contact with the ball. All the while catching this single fluid motion from different angles, with the hopes of ending the shot of a low angle close up of the golf ball coming directly at the camera, and transitioning into some GFX.
My question to you guys, is what would be the most effective/safest way to achieve this cinematography…
We are fortunate enough to have access to some DSLRs and maybe even some REDs. What we were thinking is positioning the cameras at a profile angle, frontal angle, and a low angle at the height of the ball at the point of impact of the ball “hitting” the camera.
We are going to bump the FPS to at least 60 on the DSLRs, and the RED up to 300. And we were thinking about placing a piece of plexiglass in front of the bottom camera for obvious protection.
What do you guys think? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 
It really depends on what you mean by "extreme slow-motion". Could you give us an example of the type of speed you are going for?
 
I would strongly urge you to shoot at higher than 60fps if you want good results. Twixtor doesn't always deliver, and you're begging for nasty artifacts with a shot like that. You said you had access to a Red, so definitely go with 300fps.
 
If you want 1000fps, then you should shoot at 1000fps. Trying to slow 60fps down to 1000fps will not look the same at all.

Shooting at 1000fps has a hyper real look caused by the lack of motion blur & high frame rate. Slowing something down will soften it, even with the best retiming software. And you're talking about creating roughly 16 or 17 frames for each frame that you actually shoot.

You need to rent some Phantom or Weiscam cameras that can actually shoot at 1000fps.
 
I'd say if you can't afford the Phantom, I think you could get away with the red at 300fps and triple it it with twixtor or ae and still get good results.

Leave the dslrs at home. That's just not gonna work.

EDIT....obviously you would have to do several takes of the swing from different angles and match up in post for the differing angle cuts.
 
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