Thursday 18 November 2010

SPECIAL EFFECTS TERMS; BULLET TIME

Bullet time is a special and visual effect that refers to slow motion photography used in films. It is characterized both by its extreme transformation of time, such as flying bullets and space by way of the ability of the camera angle the audience's point of view to move around the scene at a normal speed while events are slowed. The bullet time effect was originally achieved photographically by a set of still cameras surrounding the subject. These arrays are usually triggered at once or sequentially. Singular frames taken from each of the still cameras are then arranged and displayed consecutively to produce an orbiting viewpoint of an action frozen in time or as hyper slow motion.

An example of bullet time in a film production is The Matrix.

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