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3rd Person POV type camera movement used to depict intoxication?
I have seen this method of cinematography used in countless productions to depict intoxication in a weirdly pov yet 3rd person type shot and I love it.
I can’t work out how it is achieved though. It seems as though they have literally strapped a very wide camera to the actress somehow but I’m sure thats unlikely except with something like a go pro but I doubt this was filmed with a gopro. Still possible though, it is very wide but the low light shots make me doubt it entirely.
Here is an example of the cinematography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=99&v=oh2LWWORoiM
Does anybody know how this is done?
Thanks.
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Yep, it’s a go pro or lipstick camera attached to a boom, the boom mounted to a rig out of shot on her waist. Any intrusion of the rig into the shot is rotoscoped/painted out.
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Yes, just confirming what Mark said, that’s how they do it.
For many years this was known as a “DoggiCam,” shot, as DoggiCam is the brand name of the rig that is most used…
…but of course no doubt it was a much smaller camera used in this example, as Mark said maybe even a lipstick camera.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Very interesting, I’ve never seen these rigs used for such creative purposes before and assumed they were exclusive for action filming with go pros and such.
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Yeah those rigs have been around long before GoPros existed.
One of my favs is Billy Bob Thornton’s drunk Doggicam shot in the movie “Bad Santa.”
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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