TECHNIQUES - FROZEN MOMENT To record a frozen moment we trigger all of the cameras in our systems simultaneously. This results in a number of images of the subject from a number of different points of view - all taken at the exact same moment in time. These individual images are then transferred sequentially into a computer and stabilized to make a smooth motion picture of a moment frozen in time. That's not all that our systems can do, however. The frozen moment is just one dramatic example of the power of Digital Air's camera systems over the relationships between space, time and camera movement in motion pictures. The other visual effects discussed in these pages illustrate a variety of additional sometimes subtle, oftentimes dramatic, ways in which Digital Air's camera systems can be used to defy our most basic assumptions about space, time and camera movement in motion pictures.

Timetrack 80 lens curved camera Timetrack 80 lens curved camera schematic

EXAMPLE - FROZEN MOMENT Project: WENDIGO (2001) - feature film Equipment: Timetrack 80 lens curved camera Client: Glass Eye Pix / Antidote Films Director: Larry Fessenden Production Company: Antidote Films (New York) Producer: Jeff Levy-Hinte Post Production: Digital Air link to finished clip: http://www.virtualcamera.com/wendigo.html

In this example of the frozen moment effect all 80 of the Timetrack camera's shutters opened and closed simultaneously. The zoom-in was done digitally in post production.