two fx in this music video..

[DBoz699]

http://systemofadown.com/Videos/SOAD_BYOBVid_Explicit_300.asx

if u watch the music video...the beginning shows the white smoke really like jitterry and stuff...how i go about making that effect? is it the way its shot? the shutter speed? or made in an editor?
And the the other effect...how i re create the effect of those images being projected onto those goggles of those soldier dudes?

 

[scharky]

Ahhh, good ol, system of a down.
The first effect is called hand cranking. WHile this is more of an asthetic than an effect (it was how the first manually cranked film cameras worked) it can be achieved by either hand cranking a film camera, or done in post. The way it would be done in post is by slowing and speeding up footage at certain intervals, and lightening the footage as it slows down (more light hitting each frame) and darkening the footage as it speeds up (less light hitting each frame).
The second effect is most likely done with tracking software. Each of those helmets probably had some kind of marker on it, the footage was brought into after effects or combustion, and the words were then tracked onto the helmets. IT looks like some 3D rendering went on as well with the projected light from the helmets. Hope this helps out, and if anyone has anything to add I would love to hear it.