Bullet Time
バレットタイム / 1999– / Technique / Film Technology
An arc of still cameras fired at once or in sequence: time nearly stops while the viewpoint alone moves. The Matrix popularized the idea of the virtual camera.
Frozen time / A traveling viewpoint / The arc of cameras / Live action mixed with interpolation
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't confuse it with the flash of slow motion. The heart is the separation of time from viewpoint.
- Further study
- John Gaeta / Tim Macmillan's time-slice work / the lineage into virtual production