Originally published at: Watch striking footage of a bowling alley captured with FPV drone | Boing Boing
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I’m thinking of the opening scene of A Touch of Evil and wondering what Orson Welles could have done with this technology.
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Well this is going to change cinematography
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That was way, way more amazing than I expected. Remarkable flying and blocking.
The only thing I would have liked better is if it could have slowed down more at times instead of always showing off how fast the pilot could fly.
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Now THAT is some good piloting. I would be too scared I’d wing the side of a door and lose control of the drone-- that clip of it going up through the area above the pins is particularly impressive.
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I can’t believe this is drone footage. I can’t believe this is rendered either. Okay, I am kinda out of options here; let’s pretend I never saw it, okay?
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As far as Minneapolis bowling alleys go, the Bryant Lake Bowl is a great spot, but it just doesn’t have the bona fide retro chic of Memory Lanes (formerly Stardust Lanes), immortalized on the briefly-lived Comedy Central show Let’s Bowl.
But anyway, that is amazing drone footage truly worthy of those cinematic Minnesotans, the Coen Brothers!
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just loved the theater.
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I assume all the sound was mixed in post production but I wonder if they set up hidden mics to record any of it during the actual shoot.
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All I saw was … congregating indoors with chinmasks.
It’s a horror movie. Doubly so because we’re all now “so over it.”
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Or “I am Cuba”.
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
Cinematography by Sergey Urusevsky
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The annoying buzz of the drone would ruin it, I’d assume.
I was going to say the drone of the drone, but I caught myself.
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FPV, for people like me who aren’t up on acronym-jargon of the rad droner, means first person view, where the camera transmits back to the person flying it on something like virtual reality goggles. It’s fine to put something like that in a headline, but kind of annoying to use without explanation in the body, IMO.
Looks pretty CGI to me. The bowling alley was pretty convincing the first time.
That’s probably because you’ve become accustomed to studios depending on CGI when they want to create these dramatic shots.
The creator is sharing these videos to promote his services as an aerial cinematographer. It wouldn’t make much sense for him to misrepresent the way he created these scenes, because if he did this using CGI he’d presumably be using the videos to promote his services as a CGI contractor.
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Just from the other side of the Minnesota River from where I grew up!
I drove past this location hundreds of times going from I-35W to Uptown, but it wasn’t such a fancy block back in the 80’s.
@WorkWatchBuyRpt: Minnesota’s infection rates never got as bad as most other states. Minnesotans can be painfully conformist (ie - masking-up) at times, but sometimes that works in their favor. I’m in Michigan these days and could do with a lot less “rugged individualism”.
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Me: I don’t impress easily.
Also me: I was pretty fucking impressed.
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