Camera Setup:
🔎 ZEISS Super Speed 18mm T1.3
📹 ARRI Alexa Mini

• Recording Format: ProRes 4444 XQ 4K

• Frame Rate (fps): 200fps

• Color Temperature: 5600K

• Filters Used (ND and/or others): ND, Glimmerglass ¼

• T stops: T2

 

Could you explain how you managed to achieve this kind of shot?

 

For that specific shot, we shot at 200fps, had the actors stay as still as possible, and moved the camera really fast around them in a semi-circular motion. The wide-angle lens allowed the Steadicam operator, Joaquin Silvatici, to quickly change perspective in a single, fast movement, which, when played back in slow motion, looked incredibly smooth. Also, the art department, led by Candela Garcia Rico, created some great props—like the frozen-spilled-coffee cup—that helped sell the bullet time effect.

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How much CGI was used, and can you explain it?
 

The only CGI used in that set of frozen-time shots was the cigarette smoke in the shot with the lady...