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Mixing slow motion w/ regular speed


Charles DeRosa

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How do cinematographers combine slow motion and regular speed motion in the same frame?

 

I'm going to try and shoot an object which falls to the ground (which I'd like to be in slow motion) while the people in the room move at regular or faster than normal speeds. There's no budget for post effects. Suggestions.

 

Are there other ways to do it then the obvious poor man's approach of telling the actors to move at vastly different speeds? I see it in ads and movies all the time where a crowd of people is buzzing by at high speeds, but the lead is moving at normal speed.

 

thanks,

chuck derosa

los angeles

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Hi,

 

All I can suggest is an in-camera matte, where you'd have to avoid the normal-speed people crossing the area where the high-speed effect is. It'd be a cow to get the exposure exactly even, I'd have thought.

 

Phil

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