What effect are they using here?

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leaftors

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I can't seem to describe it but there's some sort of warping going on in the camera movements in relation to the subjects.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tipfVjCASJg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_9tX4eHztY

I think I'm talking about the stabilizer/floating effect that you usually see in choreography dance videos. The movements start after 0:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMazlB29RH8

This is more of a post editing question but figured I'd ask here as it's sort of related to the camera movement
 
Try contacting the guy who shot it: https://twitter.com/mytypolife

I am curious as well.


it could be purely organic. Possible that he is merely doing aggressive physical moves with the Movi / stabilizer. He is himself a dancer.

another of his vids with same effect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHmW2Klmf2c

Here is his YT page:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJAPtH_erhqONKVnktPKv8g

I put in an inquiry to him. Maybe between the two of us we can gain some details.

Has anyone developed a stabilizer that will track a subject? That is, a system where you touch a subject on the LCD display of the camera and then the stabilizer pans and tilts to keep that object in the center of the frame.
 
The third link in the OP has a bit of a sped up look along with the camera moves being a little spongy like a time warp like effect. I agree, something looks like it is going on.
 
Third clip - Tripod on wheels with a small gib. The light mass allows them to move it quickly. Wide lens, no need to pull focus.
 
It seems like camera movements are augmented by zooming in and out (known as vertigo zoom, zolly, etc.). Easy to do using remote zoom and working in tandem with a steadicam operator where both following the rhythm of the music or patterns of dancers movements (using them as cues).
 
leaftors said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvIPOq_BjEI really apparent here! another filmmaker who does the same effect. I tried emailling him, anyone else want to shoot an email to see if he budges?
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You can see the operator in the mirror. Nothing more than a Movi / stabilizer. I'm not sure if there is any zooming taking place. In-shot or in post. Possible that he is merely dollying in and out rapidly / walking forwards and backwards.

I noticed something curious- many of the spectators are looking at something behind the camera instead of looking at the dancers. It appears that they are watching the dancers in a mirrored wall behind the camera, that mirror providing them a frontal angle of the dancers. At the :57 mark, look at the people on the camera right side. Most of them are looking straight ahead instead of to their right where he dancer is.

Interesting that in all of these videos no effort was made to avoid seeing the camera op in the mirror behind the dancers. My immediate instinct would have been to cover the mirror behind the dancers. But, these are not "professional" productions and I think there is also a generational thing- younger people don't have the same sense that one needs to hide the camera. In all of their selfies the camera is in the shot. Is seen in the mirror. So, when it comes to something like recording these dances, they don't even think twice about the camera being seen in the mirror. The fourth wall doesn't exist for them. Not when camera operator IS the subject. Or, rather, in the case of selfies the 4th wall becomes the scene. The scene becomes everything that is BEHIND the camera. Nothing positioned in front of the camera matters. Except, that is, the reflection of what is behind the camera. ( okay, this is making my head hurt. )

Also notice that out of 242 comments not one person asks how the camera moves are being accomplished or even mentions it. And no one mentions being able to see the camera in the mirror, no one labels it a mistake.
 
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