Wow. That’s pretty cool.
That’s some pretty violent and disturbing imagery for a gadget ad. Clowns :: shudder ::
Anywho, I’m betting it’s a very large series of still camera arranged on a series of rails that loop through the structure. They set the scene in motion and snap all the cameras at once, then render the in-between frames digitally.
IOW, same idea as bullet time, but going in a complete circle, and with all the cameras shooting simultaneously, instead of over a short period of time.
I agree with friedo. Except that certain parts are added digitally, particularly the money, gun explosion, and the bullets (similar to the CGI bullets in “bullet time”.)
The problem with using real bullets in a scene like this is that it will work fine, but you only get one take.
How does the camera “move” forward, though? Wouldn’t the next camera in line be captured by the previous camera?
Not necessarily. For one thing, the camera is often moving straight forward, fairly slowly, which would leave you the problem of removing the other cameras from the shot- you would end up rendering so many in-between frames that you may as well do the whole thing in CGI.
I think they used a normal camera to shoot a series of sequences which are then stitched together.
All the actors are simply holding their positions. The ones in the air are probably suspended on wire rigs or CGI-generated. CGI is used to render the gun muzzle flashes, the broken glass in mid air, and so on.
Either way, you can see the points where the transitions are made between sequences- there’s one as the camera enters the building, one as we pass through the exploding gas, another one a little later mid way down the corridor just after passing two clowns, and so on.
I don’t think it would be a big deal to be able to see the next camera in the shot. With all the information you’ve captured from other cameras, it would be a simple matter to fill in the gaps.
Personal guess is that it’s all wax sculptures and 3D rendering. For some of the close-ups they might have actually had a human whom they did bullet-time on, and then spliced that in.
They key to it all is to have an exact recording of the placement of the camera. If you can move a second camera (or set of cameras) in the exact same movement for any particular segment, you can splice that in by editing around.
No, at least some of them aren’t. There’s a spot where you can click (when you see 2 cops and 1 clown) for a director commentary. The director walks out into the scene and gives some…direction too which one of the actors responds. Actually, it’s the guy going through the glass that responds, though it could be CGI.
I’ll be damned.
The guy going through the glass was the only one that looked to be a real human. Well and maybe the guy who started it all.
There were a couple of times that people moved very slightly, giving away the secret that it was mostly a long practical shot.
Was the broken glass CGI? The reflections seemed unrealistic sometimes. If they could get people to hang in mid-air without moving, surely they could have gotten shards of glass to do the same.
I’m not sure about ALL the glass, but some of it is real. Or at least real in the sense that it’s there (not CGI) and somehow being held in place.
The fact that most of the “people” are wearing clown masks that hide their faces and real hair suggests to me that most of them aren’t people at all, but instead either computer-generated or models.
Another thing, when you watch the director thing in the middle, the cop on the right is swaying back and forth a little trying to keep his balance…but it could be on purpose.
If I had to guess, nothing you’re looking at is a photograph. It’s all 3d modeling.
I’m going to guess you didn’t bother to look at audit1’s link, which discusses the shooting and has a series of stills of behind-the-scenes footage.
I’m another who didn’t bother to look.
If you tell me that it was not done with CG, I’ll believe you. But it doesn’t wow me. Because it could have been done with CG. I watched the video, and I said, “Yeah. Big deal. It’s probably CG.”
CG has taken all the fun out of this stuff. I’m very jaded, and that’s very sad.