There’s a scene which show the balls rolling along the floor towards the back of the plane, exactly what they would do if the plane was in a climb. In that same scene, folks are also floating around in the cabin above the balls. You can’t have that happen at the same time, but you can shoot the two different scenes and then merge them. See 2:09 - 2:30. For most of that time there is a clear separation between the balls and the people. Also notice that when they do interact with the balls, it’s a different set of balls released, and not the original set of balls. Is this exactly how they did it? maybe not, but the physics is pretty straight forward, and there’s definitely things happening in the video that can’t happen in real life** at the same time**, but can definitely happen with some creative and careful editing. It’s still real, and it can still be done without any CGI. I would bet $$ there’s multiple combined scenes in this music video.
Look closely. Everywhere the balls are moving, the band member is holding on to something or anchored by hooking their foot under a railing.
For pete’s sake. I’ve seen enough ISS and Vomit Comet videos to tell that this music video was shot exactly as they claimed.
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… yes, it is indeed taking longer than we thought…
There are no compiled shots.
There are no shots shot “backward”
There are no laws of physics violated. Instead, there are some very good illustrations of Newton’s laws.
Take a look at some of the “making of videos” released by the band where you can see more details on how this was filmed.
Sure they can happen at the same time. When gravity “disappears”, things don’t automatically float away from the floor. They just stay there unless some force pushes them upwards. The people, of course, can push themselves up from the floor. Like Broomstick says, it’s exactly what Newton’s Laws dictate.
Quite a bit longer.
Or as I said (covering that same time frame, I think, and dragging Newton into this) in post 109.
Exactly… during the “zero-g” part of the parabola the airplane and everything inside of it all fall together at the same acceleration, so items within the airplane do not move relative to each other or the structure of the airplane unless additional force is applied to them. Such as a person pushing off a surface or another person.
As you say, Newton’s laws.
Under a constant 1g of acceleration, such as we normally experience, we usually don’t get to see them operate in such pure fashion.
It would be far more impressive if they had faked it:)
I have now read this entire thread before going to watch the video. Ah, the joy of anticipation…
Yes. There is a part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula where the karst geomorphology causes the highway to go up and down for several miles in successive, approximately 300-meter-long, 10-meter-high parabolas. My Mexican friends call the experience of driving there columpios, which actually means “swings” (like a playground swing set)…which is, of course, an effective weightlessness machine.
Just bumping this because OK Go has released yet another behind the scenes video, showing all the failed [del]computer animations[/del] takes of the finale segment.