Posted by doc on 07/13/06 04:16

except that the films are no longer available online for d/l viewing.

on the camera mount we did something similiar on commercial and mounted the
camera of choice to the skaters leg thus taking some of the shock out
(jitter) of the system and using the side LCD viewfinder the skater was able
to actually semi-direct the shot to get the desired effect. the shot came
out good and the client liked it :o)

drd

"nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Yeah, it's been done before, one of the things to watch out for is the
> added mass of even a handycam makes the truck top-heavy and liable to
> roll over on any sharp turns or bumps. The rigs i've seen use a
> wireless POV camera to keep things smaller, lighter, and easier. You
> find that even with an expensive RC truck, one with very good
> suspension and soft tires, you get a lot more bumps in the view than
> you expected, and framing the shots in motion, remotely, requires more
> than casual RC driving skills. Frankly, I don't think it's worth it,
> and a better plan might be a POV camera on a stick or wand, carried
> alongside by a second skater or someone on a bike.
>
> Or, you could do the effect that's popular for a lot of car
> commercials. You mount a POV camera on a (VERY!) stiff rod thats
> tightly bound to the board itself and hangs out front to one side or
> the other a couple feet, like a lance. This welds the POV lens and
> board/rider into one inertial frame that doesn't appear to move,
> instead, the world and road around it seems to move and a "magic"
> camera seems to float along in perfect formation with the
> car/skateboard, as if it was a motion-control rig.
>
> In the edit, you just use compositing software with a painting system
> to paint out the rig that's in the shot, replacing it with adjacent
> pixels from the scene. Same as in a still with photoshop you can hide
> wires using the clone brush. Only it's more work on video because you
> have to paint each frame.
>
> But it looks unearthly cool. Kind of "matrix'-like
>
> One of the places you can see this effect, and one of the first places
> I saw it, was at the BMW Films site where they have famous directors
> make adventure shorts that star the cars driven by Clive Owen as "the
> Driver". They are mini-movie commercials. The one you should see
> relevant to this post is directed by the late great John Frankenheimer.
> You should watch it twice, once without the director's comments torun
> on, once with. But you'll see this effect int he chase sequence.
>

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