I’m very proud of my oldest son Alex, who was a gymnast in high school and State Champion on the still rings for several years.   Those years provided a crash course in technique and scoring which lead to my love of the sport, which still remains to this day.

Breaking Gravity was produced by Marc Donahue, who also has a great video about his array of cameras.  (Note: There are several really great sequences here, specifically the fire around 1:30, his excellent mouthing of words while the array is firing and the desk shot at the end)

This video combines gymnastics, cinematography and multiple video techniques which distills into 3:52 of “Wow!”

Check out Breaking Gravity – Gymnastics and Bullet Time

Now I just have to figure out how to get 20 GoPro cameras, rack them up, and find something cool to shoot.  I appears they’re also using a Red Epic cinema camera, which usually puts out a great moving image. I have zero experience with this technique and can only guess when it comes to the process of creating a bullet time sequence.

The new GoPro Hero4 line can take photographic bursts of 30 frames per second.  That could possibly make bullet time an actual time lapse instead of a what I imagine is a stitched video process.  Then the images could be sized to the same resolution as the 4k Red perhaps?  Now I’ve got to learn about this!

Has anyone tried this?  Thoughts?

Cheers!