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Agree with Stephen – camera, wineglass and lighting all attached to a rig on a gimbal. Here’s a hilarious version of the same idea (also involving wine) from Australian comedian Shaun Micallef:
Stephen, I don’t think it was all that simple in the TV show. Remember that it was done in a single shot, and imagine the number of rehearsals that would have required to act out the sequence correctly.
Brilliant! Reminds me of a ride at Alton Towers called Hex. You’d sit in a carriage that was swinging, then the whole room would start rotating, making you feel like you were upside down. It was pretty convincing.
I think most people are very familiar with this trick (camera stuck to a box in which the glass is stuck too) to take them by surprise. Still nice though, even used in Inception.
That was very good but my 4 year old daughter worked out how it was done but then her uncle built himself a rotating room this year. You can see a music video he shot in the room here:
I have to say I can’t always work these out but I did this one so it must be pretty easy to see.
That being said it look really effective and made me laugh which can be no bad thing- just hope they caught the wine because it would have been an awful waste otherwise!!
I’m in with the “rotating set” crowd as to how it was done.
I wonder if there were plans to replace the flat green background with a non-rotating image at some point?
November 25, 2010 at 5:38 am |
Camera firmly attached to a swinging table. Looks great though.
November 25, 2010 at 9:01 am
That’s what I thought.
November 25, 2010 at 9:32 am
Yeah, I think it looks obvious, but when you really look at it, a lot of effort has went into making it flawless. No change in lighting at all.
November 25, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I’d just like to say I’ve already solved the Friday Puzzle
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November 25, 2010 at 5:41 am |
Cute, and super-simple.
November 25, 2010 at 5:43 am |
Agree with Stephen – camera, wineglass and lighting all attached to a rig on a gimbal. Here’s a hilarious version of the same idea (also involving wine) from Australian comedian Shaun Micallef:
November 25, 2010 at 5:51 am
Ha ha, this is great too, really made me laugh. And also very well done, although simple.
November 25, 2010 at 7:10 am
Stephen, I don’t think it was all that simple in the TV show. Remember that it was done in a single shot, and imagine the number of rehearsals that would have required to act out the sequence correctly.
November 25, 2010 at 7:24 am
Brilliant! Reminds me of a ride at Alton Towers called Hex. You’d sit in a carriage that was swinging, then the whole room would start rotating, making you feel like you were upside down. It was pretty convincing.
November 28, 2010 at 3:50 am
Anyone else thinking of the rotating hallway in Inception?
November 25, 2010 at 8:06 am |
[...] (hat tip to anaglyph on Richard Wiseman’s blog) [...]
November 25, 2010 at 8:22 am |
I think most people are very familiar with this trick (camera stuck to a box in which the glass is stuck too) to take them by surprise. Still nice though, even used in Inception.
November 25, 2010 at 8:37 am |
Must have been really bad wine.
November 25, 2010 at 8:56 am |
That was very good but my 4 year old daughter worked out how it was done but then her uncle built himself a rotating room this year. You can see a music video he shot in the room here:
It’s worth a watch.
November 25, 2010 at 9:52 am |
What a waste of wine! And just to complete my impression of an old grouch, Fred Astaire was at it sixty-odd years ago:
November 25, 2010 at 11:48 am |
Lionel Richie did a good version too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQDXs75Ulo (sorry, don’t know how to embed vids)
November 25, 2010 at 12:29 pm |
Same way Kubrick shot the the weightless stewardess sceen in 2001
November 25, 2010 at 1:19 pm |
Ernie Kovacs did this on American TV in 1957.
November 26, 2010 at 11:23 am |
I have to say I can’t always work these out but I did this one so it must be pretty easy to see.
That being said it look really effective and made me laugh which can be no bad thing- just hope they caught the wine because it would have been an awful waste otherwise!!
November 26, 2010 at 7:46 pm |
Easy to spot, but nicely done!
November 27, 2010 at 2:32 pm |
Clearly the camera and the glass are attached to a rotating frame.
November 27, 2010 at 6:16 pm |
I’m in with the “rotating set” crowd as to how it was done.
I wonder if there were plans to replace the flat green background with a non-rotating image at some point?
November 28, 2010 at 11:31 am |
Italy’s most famous showgirl, Raffella Carrà, tried to do something like this in 1971:
My mum used to tell me that little me, aged 1, tried to climb on the wall in front of the mirror the same way. With no success, I presume.