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(29,148 posts)ornotna
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(12,462 posts)flying rabbit
(4,623 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,842 posts)While it was likely done in one take, I have to wonder if the drone "pilot" is really controlling it in real-time or if it's following a 3d path that was pre-recorded earlier --- and at much saner speeds.
Special effects companies have used computer-controlled cameras for a very long time, there's no reason to think they've not expanded to include cameras on drones!
Regardless... the result is pretty cool
Martin68
(22,755 posts)about the overheard dialog. I suspect it is dubbed. But this is a really cool video, however it was accomplished.
JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)The course is full of obstacles and they rip through so fast it's hard to keep up with your eyes. See the back story posted below.
Its absolutely real, but amazing nonetheless.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,645 posts)ZZenith
(4,115 posts)Feels like seeing the first Pixar short film with the desk lamp - a glimpse into what the art form is about to become.
Very, very cool.
JFK60
(22,976 posts)And drop this into the midst of the film. Wow!
Ohio Joe
(21,726 posts)Heh, I just saw this and came to see if it was already up here... Very cool stuff
jtb653
(45 posts)(I was wondering where this was filmed).
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/drone-bowling-alley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed.
A drone video shot in a Minneapolis bowling alley was hailed as an instant classic. One Hollywood veteran said it adds to the language and vocabulary of cinema.
A drone operator shot an 87-second video in a Minneapolis bowling alley last week to raise support for the business. The operator didnt expect it to be viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media, or to win high praise from Hollywood directors.
Mike Ives
By Mike Ives
March 11, 2021
A drone flies into a bar, swoops through an adjacent bowling alley and crashes into the pins.
The drones operator, who shot the 87-second video in a Minneapolis bowling alley last week to rally support for the business, didnt expect it to be viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media, or to win high praise from Hollywood directors.
But it was and it did.
Bowling, like baseball, is one thing that lots of Americans can get behind, even at a time of intense political polarization. In that sense, the country could perhaps use a video like this at a moment like this.
Fans of the video, titled Right Up Our Alley, marveled at what they said was a remarkable cinematic achievement: a continuous take, shot at high velocity, in tight spaces and without digital effects. (Remember those famous long takes from Goodfellas and Touch of Evil? It was a bit like that, but faster, and with bowling.)
This is one of the most amazing things Ive ever seen, wrote the director Lee Unkrich, whose 2017 film Coco won an Academy Award for best animated feature. Jaw on the floor.
Its funny, too: Bystanders in the drones path can be heard quoting from The Big Lebowski, which is arguably sorry, Kingpin the greatest bowling movie of all time.
My foot wasnt over the line, a woman near the lanes says to her bowling partner. Mark it eight, dude.
This is bowling, there are rules, her partner replies, an alleyside quip from Lebowski, the 1998 film. Im not counting it.
The bowling alley where the video was shot, Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater, also has a restaurant, a cabaret theater and a bar that makes rail cocktails. It opened in 1936 in a former garage that had serviced Model T Fords.
Right Up Our Alley, shot by the drone operator Jay Christensen, was made as part of a project to document well-known businesses around Minnesota that are threatened by the pandemic, said Brian Heimann, a producer at Rally Studios, the Minneapolis production company that produced it.
The place is near and dear to our hearts, he added. So when we floated the idea to the owner, she was all for it. It was a no-brainer.
The coronavirus has been brutal in the Midwest, including Minnesota, a state of fewer than six million people that has reported nearly 500,000 cases. During a November peak, Minnesota recorded more than 6,000 new cases a day.
(Bowling alleys in Minnesota were allowed to reopen in January at a limited capacity. Mr. Heimann said coronavirus protocols were followed during the filming, although several people in the video do not appear to be wearing masks, which are required except when eating or drinking.)
Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater is also in a neighborhood that saw heavy civil unrest after the death of George Floyd, the Black man who died last May after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officers knee. The protests led to riots, and several buildings in the city were heavily damaged.
Mr. Heimann said the video, directed by Anthony Jaska, was shot in a single take with a racing drone on the 10th try after nine takes. He said the drone survived the dramatic crash at the end.
A lot of people think, Oh my gosh, why would you potentially destroy a piece of equipment like that? he said. But, no, these drones are quite resilient.
ImageAn image taken from the video shot at a Minneapolis bowling alley.
An image taken from the video shot at a Minneapolis bowling alley.Credit...Jay Christensen and Anthony Jaska/Rally Studios
Travis Duede, a sous chef who works nights at Bryant Lake and appeared in the video, said that the business was boarded up or closed for parts of last year, and that he had not worked for 100 days in the early phase of Minnesotas lockdown.
When he showed up for the drone shooting last week, he said he did not know what to expect. His boss had described it beforehand only as a guy shooting a video here with a drone.
This week, Mr. Duede noticed that the video was popular on a local Reddit page and racking up praise from Hollywood A-listers, including the actor Elijah Wood.
Oh, this is a lot bigger than we thought, he said he recalled thinking. But it was cool because it was our bar and restaurant and bowling alley getting a lot of attention.
In addition to Mr. Wood, the videos fans include James Gunn, the creative force behind Disneys Guardians of the Galaxy movie franchise, who called it stupendous in a Twitter post.
This kind of wonderful photographic innovation adds to the language and vocabulary of cinema, wrote Todd Vaziri, a visual-effects artist who has worked on the Star Wars and Transformers movies. Just beautiful.
ShazzieB
(16,265 posts)And this background story made it even better! 😁
Nevilledog
(50,983 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)I forget how many takes it took, or how they did the sound, but this is some fancy flyin'.
The sound had to be dubbed in because all we'd hear are the rotors.
mn9driver
(4,417 posts)Good food, good bowling, good beer and good off-off-off Broadway theater. Its worth a stop if youre anywhere close.