Thanks for your comments everyone! I'm editing a trailer in a couple of days so I should have it online soon for you all to see @ www.anasazifilms.co.uk
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PHILIP HAWKINS
Anasazi Films LTD.
www.anasazifilms.co.uk
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Thanks for your comments everyone! I'm editing a trailer in a couple of days so I should have it online soon for you all to see @ www.anasazifilms.co.uk
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PHILIP HAWKINS
Anasazi Films LTD.
www.anasazifilms.co.uk
This may be a bit lengthy, but I'm working on a student film to be shown at my high school graduation this June. In it, we include spoofs of several popular movies, one of which is "The Matrix." Keanu's husky voice and acting style is just too funny to pass up... and the bullet time has become such a staple of special effects, I'm determined to realistically recreate it to wow the crowd.
Specifically, we're looking to recreate the very first use of bullet time from the movie (as I recall) when the camera rotates around Trinity as she rises in mid-air to kick a cop in the face.
To do this, first we're creating a track with currently an approximate radius of 12 feet in a semicircle around where our new Trinity would stand. The person who she is kicking would then stand in their place, however Trinity would not be in the shot. We then film the shot running around the track, taking perhaps a minute to do so, with our kick victim standing perfectly still. In post, we'll speed up the film so it lasts only five or six seconds.
Then Trinity will assume her place, and we will photograph her at 12 equidistant locations along the camera track. At each location, she will be raised higher off the ground by a platform and will raise her arms and one leg to prepare to kick. Those twelve shots will then be edited and a green matte will be applied to the entire image except Trinity. Each still will then be morphed into the next, hopefully making up for the half-second gap in between each of our images and giving the shot smooth motion.
Our new Trinity will then be superimposed over the video we have of our camera track shot, and we should have what we need. We'll have the modify the shot and go the opposite direction (around Trinity's back) as she'll be imposed over the person she's kicking, however that's a minor detail I doubt anyone in the audience will notice. Otherwise, preliminary tests of the morphing shows it can work, even though it certainly is time consuming.
Appreciate any feedback or suggestions -- I'll be filming this middle of next month, hopefully. Thanks!
ShaunDon
[This message has been edited by ShaunDon (edited January 04, 2001).]
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