How did they film the Sl65 Black intro in Top Gear 13x03

Ah-hah. I've got a screenshot!

shadowinbackground.png


There's your culprit. Someone with a neon light. I'd say it's easy.

1. Guy with Neon Light.
2. Guy with high-end still camera with great resolution and ability to shoot video clips.
3. Combine the two.
4. Edit to taste on good computer.

Probably close to that. If you've got the episode and a player that can step through frames there's another couple of shots of the shadow....
 
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Hehe.. It's possible with video too. You just need a time blend filter and an echo filter and continuous light movement (or there will be umm.. weirdnesses..). I'll post a crappy vid in a bit. (It's flashlight and a window, but you'll get what i mean). It's quality will be crappy because i have no good video camera.. so 320x240..

First is an original video. Then it's blend and echo one . After you tinker a bit with settings you'll get what you want. BTW I've tried it in After Effects.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4UcfaTTY6w[/YOUTUBE]

And using this you can probably create any sorts of trails...
 
Just moving it to this page:

So i had a go at creating this myself.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1osWg6d_AY[/YOUTUBE]

I don't think this is the actual method, but it is a lazymans way and it'll certainly get great results, but fairly simple ones.

I didn't use a video camera. I used my normal photo camera and took some Light Graffiti photos, 20 second shutter at F5.6
I took a long exposure photo of my subject first (with no lights), and then one with the lights buzzing around.
I then put them on final cut, put the normal photo as the bottom layer, the light graffiti photo on top of it (cropped out 100% to the left or right), and then brought the image back in with some edge feathering.
This method will only work with direct A to B graffiti. It wont work with twists and twirls like the TG one has, but it'll serve me fine.
I suppose you could also put it into After Effects and bring the graffiti layer in with more complexity. That'll allow for more flexibility and i might try that one sometime soon.

The other photos that looked like electricity were just normal light graffiti photos taken with my phone light.
 
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I just did a full screen grab of when i was looking at it frame by frame.... found a little friend....

http://img249.imageshack.**/img249/9550/slman.jpg
 
He shows up in a few shots. I've got him in the shot I managed too.
 
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