Time Freeze Shootout by FreddieW
Whilst FreddieW may sound like a single person, it is actually a team of two friends who make short action style movies and upload them to YouTube. They started as friends at university in America studying film and have become quite prominent film makers within the YouTube community. Many of their videos are much the same, taking a single action based idea and turning it into a short engaging film usually only a few minutes in length. The majority of these ideas are not just action based but also have a strong focus on visual effects.
This particular clip shows this off very well. The film shows the main character in all FreddieW movies, Freddie himself, climbing a hill before being ambushed by bad guys. Luckily Freddie appears to have the ability to pause time and quickly uses this ability to dispatch his foes. The movie starts with a number of establishing shots slowly setting the scene and portraying Freddie as a calm peaceful hiker. At this point the shots are fairly long and the camera movements slow and smooth. However as soon as the bad guys appear the camera is a lot shakier and the cuts become faster paced.
As the film continues the focus shifts more onto the effects the team is trying to portray, freezing time. The camera work from here on seems quite handheld with complex follow cam style movements. I believe this is a carefully chosen style as is shows of the time freeze effect to its fullest and adds hugely to making the effect convincing, almost putting the viewer into the scene.
One of the things that I enjoy most about these videos is that FreddieW has a second YouTube channel called FreddieW2 which is devoted to showing the behind the scenes of every video that they make. In some cases this may be an insight into how they did the filming, or even a mini tutorial on how to create the visual effects on a computer. Each one of their short movies is well made interesting and insightful.
In case your interested here is a link to the behind the scenes look at 'Time Freeze shootout'.
Enjoy.
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