Lesson in great camera work.

[maxwelltub]

Check out this link here first, then lets take a look at how they did it. Really cool stuff.

 

[SamaraMedia]

That's freaking amazing! Thanks for sharing! Ok. How did they do that?

 

[maxwelltub]

So when I first saw this I looked at the first shot of the oner and thought, can't be a drone its to locked in on the subject exiting the truck. If it was a drone maybe they shot in 4k and down converted to a lower res to help reframe and hold the action with a more "locked in" feeling. But then I saw that it was in 4k so that theory probably incorrect, even if you shot in 8k I'm not sure this technique would work with such precision. The zooming to long focal length without a floating feeling is also indication that this is not a drone. Cable cam? you can key out the wire so you wouldn't see it but you would need massive towers to support the ends.

 

[maxwelltub]

Camera crane, didn't even occur to me in this case. But its really right in front of my face.

 

[maxwelltub]

Just like you can key out wires, you can key out roads. Middle frame you can see him jumping over the path of the truck with no road, second picture you can see the road quite clearly before it has been rotoscoped out.

 

[maxwelltub]

Anyway I thought this was really cool and wanted to share

 

[Bartman]

Max, I was watching and thinking I'll save the link to remind myself of the awesome people out there doing awesome things whenever I see someone that sucks doing horrible things on the news.

I've got watch the "making of" videos to see what you're talking about but I liked the first video!

 

[Mojave]

Wow - just a great piece of work to be proud of. Congratulations and thanks for posting here!