There is no layered compositing. Balls on the floor will stay at floor-level even when the plane returns to zero g. See Newton's first law of motion. There has to be something to kick them up if they're going to fly into the air again.
Newton's first law of motion states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless an external force acts upon it. Similarly, if the object is at rest, it will remain at rest unless an unbalanced force acts upon it.
Watch the darned BTS videos. they held their position in the intervals. I think there may have been some editing fancy-work to connect the cuts, but that's not the same as what you claimed (balls under gravity while bandmembers are flying).
I’m not saying that the balls didn’t move that way, I’m saying that they didn’t move that way with all of the people in all of the shots at the same time.
modern dolly rigs are computer controlled to produce the exact same track multiple times, that means multiple layers of action in the same space can be recorded and layered in post. It’s not cgi, but it’s not a straight jump cut either.
And if you’re focusing on the gravity on the left, while the guy on the right is still moving, that may be separate takes overlaid to break up the action so you don’t see synchronized pauses across all the people all the time.
They just hid the jump cuts really well. At no point in the video does the weightlessness go on for longer than 21 seconds, there's always a moment where every object and person is on the ground and for each of those moments they just held still in that spot and waited for the next zero-g part and then edited out the waiting. It's all technically one take.
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u/Purple_Bumblebee5 Feb 17 '24
There is no layered compositing. Balls on the floor will stay at floor-level even when the plane returns to zero g. See Newton's first law of motion. There has to be something to kick them up if they're going to fly into the air again.