Fly Over

[Michael Szalapski]

Hire a talented stunt man and make sure he’s got good insurance and you get liability waivers?

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[Gary Hazen]

Comedy or Drama?

[Airto Jackson]

Its a comedy and he’s only going to be in the air doing the cartwheel. not actually touching the car or anything. It’s as if he’s been hit and he is flying over the car with his feet above his head.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I think you’re going to need some manner of dangling your talent. However, it doesn’t have to be a very complicated setup. In fact, you could probably do it with some ropes. Hang the person off of whatever in front of a green screen and have him fake tumbling around, then you can flip him around in post. Just try to make sure your lighting’s not terribly directional. It may not quite look right, but it’d be close.
You may need to rotoscope a bit around the ropes (unless you paint them green).

Or, get a trampoline and a pool (or foam pit) and have them do flipping off the trampoline into it. You could put up a green screen behind them for it or do rotoscoping.

Here are some rotoscoping resources.

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[Airto Jackson]

Thanks for the responses. I think the trampoline may be the best bet. I can get him to go vertical and still have the side to side motion. Then just composite it. Are there any foreseeable problems for keying if I’m shooting at a faster frame rate so I can slow it down in post?

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[Airto Jackson]

Dave,
You bring up a very good point. I’m however not as deep pocketed as I would prefer so I’m going to be trying to do this on a 60D. Recently released by Canon. If you know of any DSLR tricks of the trade I’d be more than happy to hear them as this is my first adventure out with these little cameras. To my knowledge they don’t meet the specification you mentioned. However my output source will be no bigger than an average television, computer monitor so while the keying may be not as clean, the smaller size should lend itself to obscuring that fact some. Fingers crossed.

Thanks.

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