Beeline Boom
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Editing
Chromakey background, a trampoline in the studio and 15 hours of the source footage shot by two RED cameras - that's what we had at the beginning of the editing period. All the actors and their doubles were shot separately on the real trampoline. Actors were doing more simple tricks, their doubles from Kiev trampoline school did more complex professional stuff.
Because what we had were separate shots of actors and doubles editing had an extra stage - compositing the shot together. Every shot that had to have more then one character in it, had to be constructed of the separate takes of actors or doubles.
Making of
The video below shows the process of the draft compositing of the scenes in Final Cut. Several scenes I took as an example belong to the director's cut version 2 and 3 and won't be seen in the commercial that I posted in the beginning of this page.If you can't see the video, please update your Flash Player.
Bad take
During the shooting a crew member accidentally passed in front of the camera lens while a complex trick was being filmed making the take unusable. Ben was going to swear first but then decided not to. As we have seen later, that was the right thing to do:
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Camera was filming 100 frames per second so you can imagine what an ideal timing was that. If one would try to achieve this result specifically it would have taken a LOT of takes :)
Post-Production: Wizard
Directed by: Ben Weinstein