Common camera angles

**rbbyd** March 30, 2011, 3:13 pm

z cobb can picture the swivel with both batmans, but not in the prestige, is there a specific scene in the movie you are thinking of?

ps you guys are helping me out alot i really appreciate it

Website · **Z. Cobb** March 30, 2011, 3:20 pm

rbbyd wrote:z cobb can picture the swivel with both batmans, but not in the prestige, is there a specific scene in the movie you are thinking of?

ps you guys are helping me out alot i really appreciate it

Its when Gerald Root (Angier's Double) finishes the practice performance... and Robert Angier is scoping him out on the stage.

**Mason** March 30, 2011, 3:32 pm

Z. Cobb wrote:Nolan uses extremely low angle shots to give the Joker a more powerful image in The Dark Knight, especially during the scene where the truck he was driving is flipped over and he gets out and starts shooting at Batman.

I noticed this, happens a good percentage of the time in the Prologue also, as well as the entire chase sequence. Great idea there, Nolan and Wally are freaking geniuses!

Website · **Z. Cobb** March 30, 2011, 3:42 pm

Mason01 wrote:I noticed this, happens a good percentage of the time in the Prologue also, as well as the entire chase sequence. Great idea there, Nolan and Wally are freaking geniuses!

The Camera work in the Dark Knight is superb... as with most of their films... but The Dark Knight is in a league of its own with Nolan/Wally at the helm, I get the feeling they were restricted with imax but it doesn't show in the final cut. Excellent filmmaking.

**prince0gotham** March 30, 2011, 3:44 pm

Can someone tell me or point me to a video or something where they show how they did the camera revolving around Angier and Ruth in The Prestige? I know there was a similar scene in Secret Window with Depp which was way more complicated but I wanna see about the one in the Prestige, because it was more realistic and more interesting. And those two weren't supposed to be the same person and weren't alter egos.

Website · **Z. Cobb** March 30, 2011, 3:48 pm

prince0gotham wrote:Can someone tell me or point me to a video or something where they show how they did the camera revolving around Angier and Ruth in The Prestige? I know there was a similar scene in Secret Window with Depp which was way more complicated but I wanna see about the one in the Prestige, because it was more realistic and more interesting. And those two weren't supposed to be the same person and weren't alter egos.

Well there is some cutting during that circular flow... but even so... i feel like some sort of visual effect or camera trickery was at use here. Don't know if a video exists... be very interesting to see what they did.

**prince0gotham** March 30, 2011, 3:52 pm

Apparently this is used in the Prestige too, but the effect is somehow more powerful there.

Website · **Z. Cobb** March 30, 2011, 4:00 pm

Great Video... perhaps they did it in the same way. but then again... that look like its been done using Green Screen... Nolan's somehow doesn't, baffled. :think:

**prince0gotham** March 30, 2011, 4:03 pm

Z. Cobb wrote:Great Video... perhaps they did it in the same way. but then again... that look like its been done using Green Screen... Nolan's somehow doesn't, baffled.

In that video there is a green screen at one spot yes. Not sure but I think they either didn't or almost didn't use green screen for Inception, but I'm not sure if they did or didn't for the Prestige. Yeah I guess it's highly unlikely for Nolan but again it's improbable that he would bother doing it in a much more complicated way just for that single shot. On the other hand though it's a magic trick and he might have bothered.

I don't know but I'm really curious.

Website · **Z. Cobb** March 30, 2011, 4:07 pm

I am going to get sleepless nights over this.....!!! :evil: