# How was this video made? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576 "2021-07-15T16:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/1 "2021-07-15T16:04:16Z")
[One minute long Imgur video.](https://i.imgur.com/pHcGNdt.mp4) I watched this too many times. How was it done? ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/2 "2021-07-15T16:06:47Z")
WAG, walking in the spot in front of a greenscreen, using reversed video as a background? ---
**Author:** ![Redcanoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b487fb/32.png) [@Redcanoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redcanoe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/3 "2021-07-15T16:10:54Z")
I think she is walking backwards and they reverse the video. Watch the way she walks, it’s a little weird. Also filmed in Portland. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/4 "2021-07-15T16:11:30Z")
> [@Redcanoe](#): > > Watch the way she walks, it’s a little weird. Ahhhh, yes. ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/5 "2021-07-15T16:24:25Z")
Also, when there’s people around, she attracts a little bit of attention right after they pass her (which would be right before they pass her in reality). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/6 "2021-07-15T16:29:37Z")
The second and sixth segments (on the dock, and in the skybridge) don’t seem to have any other time cues in them to indicate anything’s “backwards”. I wonder why those were included? ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/7 "2021-07-15T16:40:34Z")
> [@tofor](#): > > Also, when there’s people around, she attracts a little bit of attention right after they pass her (which would be right before they pass her in reality). Yes, this was the giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/8 "2021-07-15T16:44:06Z")
On the dock, do the waves look reversed? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/9 "2021-07-15T16:50:25Z")
Maybe? Reversed waves don’t actually look all that different from forward waves. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/10 "2021-07-15T17:51:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The second and sixth segments (on the dock, and in the skybridge) don’t seem to have any other time cues in them to indicate anything’s “backwards”. I wonder why those were included? Given that she says she shot it in two days–a rather quick turn around time, I would suspect she just needed the footage. Maybe at least one of them she expected there to be other people there, but there weren’t. But it’s the footage she had. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/11 "2021-07-20T21:36:09Z")
My guess is she is walking backwards, and she’s doing a really good job (maybe not perfect) of doing it in a way so that it looks pretty normal when the video is reversed. That sounds difficult, so I’m impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/12 "2021-07-20T21:43:19Z")
Could be, or to keep the confusion/magic of backwards or forwards in all the shots. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/13 "2021-07-21T20:11:11Z")
Ask Christopher Nolan. He made a whole movie with the same premise. ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/14 "2021-07-21T21:44:40Z")
There is a guy on TikTok who does videos that look like he sits on the floor, starts up his invisible car, and then zooms away. It is another reversed motion video, and he is really good at making it look natural. Apparently he had people guessing for days about how he was making the videos, but he eventually came clean and made some explanatory videos. He got enough attention that there is a Snopes article about him. > **[The 'Pzoom' Invisible Car Trick, Explained](https://www.snopes.com/articles/353572/pzoom-invisible-car-trick-tiktok/)** > > It has more to do with camera tricks than butt muscles. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/15 "2021-07-21T22:15:11Z")
Yeah, I read about that recently! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/16 "2021-07-21T22:20:31Z")
It looks like the very ending part of Weird Al’s Amish Paradise. He even gets the reverse lip synching mostly right. (Cued if I did it right…) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lOfZLb33uCg/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise (Parody of "Gangsta's Paradise")") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-this-video-made/946576/17 "2021-07-22T03:47:35Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > On the dock, do the waves look reversed? I didn’t notice, particularly. What I DID notice was a guy using a contraption to blow really large soap bubbles, except they were deflating instead of inflating.