Camera Special Effects | I Didn’t Know That

we’re going to find out how ordinary
digital stills cameras can be used to
create some extraordinary special
effects have you ever wondered how in
some action and kung-fu films the actors
suddenly become frozen in time as the
camera spins around them and they
apparently hang in midair well in the
business this effect is generally called
time slice and this is how it’s done hey
Johnny did you know I’m a highly trained
ninja
let’s have a look at that again
the easy bit is freezing the action now
that’s just a case of repeating the same
frame over and over again the really
tricky bit is moving the camera three
meters in the blink of an eye and then
picking up the action from the other
side of the room now how on earth do
they do that
the answer is you don’t use a single
camera but multiple cameras at the point
where the action freezes the shot is
picked up by a whole Bank of digital
stills cameras here we’ve got 13 or
Arnold’s slightly differently and it is
this that allows us to look around that
frozen moment in time so here it is once
more from a slightly different angle as
Richard hits his mark all 13 cameras are
fired simultaneously capturing him in
mid-flight next the 13 frames had joined
together but the movement is jerky as
there aren’t enough of them to create
fluid motion a very powerful piece of
movie software makes up more frames to
go between the original frames in fact
the 13 grow to over 200 now you know how
it’s done that look out for these shots
in movies and don’t worry no scientists
were hurt in the making of our movies