I didn't know where to post this, but this has been bugging me for a loonnnnng time, and I can't seem to find an answer to it...
You know in somce, commercials, Video Clips or movies, we see something cool.. They show the person (or whatever) standing in place, sometimes in the air or whatever, and the shot stops, but we see the camera moving in a circle or a semi-circle... so now you see the person from side to side, but he's not moving or anything but the camera is going around him...
lol, I don't think I explained it enough (and that's why I'm having a hard time finding an answer), but if anybody knows what it's called or how they do it, please tell me...
they line up like (x) amount of cameras and they are all working simotanously then they all go at the same time and they just scroll through the frames
beetle is right
The effect involves a series of still cameras (for example, 24) set up around the object. At the moment when the action should freeze, all 24 cameras fire at once. The images they capture are played one after another to show the rotation. To get a 2 second shot, 48 cameras are used - one camera for each second of film. To get motion during the shot, the still cameras are rigged to shoot in sequence.
Of course you don't have to use that many cameras. The more you use, the more fluid the motion.
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Apparently 'House of the Dead' also did similar shots by moving one camera around the actor really fast and shooting at high speed... but afterwards people thought 'Hmm, if we're spinning this camera around the actor at 60mph and the actor falls over, we might have to reshoot the rest of the movie with a new actor' and decided to give up on that idea.
Of course, since it was a Uwe Boll movie it shouldn't be surprising that he put as much thought into safety as he did to the script and direction.
There's a great shot in Forman's "Hair" with the camera circling around Ren Woods. I think it must have been a long lens and a LOT of dolly track. I would love to have seen that set up.
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the technique described above is the most common way of getting that effect, but i think there's an actual camera that was invented a few years ago that was made specifically for creating that effect. i think roger ebert wrote an article about it a few years ago, and it was called 'virtual camera'.
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Thx Guys for your replies.. It really helped..
But still, sometimes they go in more than a semi circle, and you don't see the cameras across from the one that is taking the picture.. Or am I just making this up??? ?:D?
