Special effects have always been a big
part of film and animation. In the past few decades directors and
filmmakers have taken advantage of advances in technology to create
more and more special effects to wow the audience. One of the more
recent effects has been being able to create a spinning environment
in which the character must survive in.
Inception
- Inception is about a group of strategists working together to convince the subconcious of a business owner of a decision against his will
- In the film Joseph Gordon Levitt's character, Arthur, combats dream security in a hotel room, and when his body has the sensation of falling, the hotel hallway begins to spin
- the way this scene was shot was the hotel room was actually built, and made to actually spin with the actors in it
- a camera was attached to the “floor” of the hallway, so as the room spun, it looked liked the characters were being tumbled about
- if the room was longer in one direction, the spinning effect spun too quickly, cause the stunt team to lose control and risk injury, to fix this the machine was purposely rigged to spin slower, if it was spinning on the long side of the rectangular environment so the actors could catch up before falling
- ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPMCxPSeRM
Gravity
- In Gravity Sandra Bullock plays Ryan Stone who must survive and escape a severely damaged space telescope, and somehow return back to earth.
- The way these scenes were shot were done by creating a room/environment that was spinnable
- some of these scenes even suspended Bullock with wires, while the room spun around her
- the wires were taken out with green screen, to create the effect that she was in space.
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