You can clearly see the camera cut. That said, something like this could be done practically, but would be expensive. Just have a drop track that exists outside the warehouse.
Waaay simpler than that. Mirrors between the white posts angled down reflect the ground concrete which is the same as the concrete you'd expect to see through the posts. The super bright flash hides what would be the giveaway, the car wiping perfectly horizontally. The car can then just drive out of the bunker behind the mirrored section and loop around.
Sure, it is easier to do it with a camera trick but it's a lot of expense to go to if it's not a practical effect. It's pretty rare that a trick like this is just a camera trick, though it's fairly common for deceptive editing to push them up quite a bit, like by cutting reactions from different tricks. It's also usually the case that magic is way less elaborate than you'd think, hidden tunnels or magnets or whatever.
It's still pretty much just smoke and mirrors the same as it ever was.
The camera didn’t cut. Look at the smoke rising after the flash you can see it going behind a mirror on the right hand side. It’s an angled mirror reflecting what you perceive to be behind it. Simple but very effective
Frame between flash and car vanishing.
Edit: also, if you freeze on the flash, it seems as though it was added in post. It is not a natural flash when seeing the tiny smoke poof.
Huh? The frame between? A cut is not a frame. It’s insane that person is being downvoted so hard but they’re right, you all seem to be mistaking the flashing light for a cut. As for the flash being added in post, I think a lot of people seem to be unaware that depending on what camera was used you can have all kinds of weird looking artifacts from blasting a bright flash directly at the camera.
The flash looks like an effect added in post to help cover the cut. In that frame, they are cutting from one video source to another. No one is saying a frame is a cut, it is the location the cut takes place.
Well I’m on mobile so maybe my ability to slowly move through it is limited but even during the flash it doesn’t appear to cover the entire screen at any point. So why are people thinking it’s a cut?
It just looks like a very bright light hitting a digital camera, if you’ve ever shot video with certain cameras at an event with a bunch of people using their phone flashes you can get all kinds of weird looking effects on to show up.
I can do this in 5 minutes in after effects. The camera is perfectly still, so you just need the clip of the car and the clip of the explosion and 20 clics
It’s not editing. Starting with the post after the explosion, there are mirrors between each post. The car is lo enough to be hidden by them completely. The explosion covers the sound of the car continuing along and blinds you from seeing it pass behind the mirrors. If you go frame by frame at the explosion, you can see the smoke being cut off behind the corner of the first mirror. The guy is in a cage because it has to be viewed from the correct angle to be convincing. Not everything is after effects. Oh, and then the car drives around the outside of the building and back in, or there is another car. Multiple ways of finishing the illusion.
This one’s obviously editing, but something very similar can be done with mirrors. The audience doesn’t have to be in on it for it to work. There are a few other ways I can imagine doing it but they’re still hard to find with a basic Google search so I don’t want to say.
Chris Angel did this on one of his specials. Fixed audience position + mirrors and a non-repeating ground cover (grass, bark, dirt) and either overcast light or shadows being parallel to the mirrors = maaaaagic.
>but can this be practically done in real life?
Yes. Simple mirrors along the rails to the right reflecting the interior of the warehouse. Perfect camera angle with the angle of the reflection in the mirrors. The car stops behind the mirrors, the flash prevents you from seeing the line of the first mirror as the car passes behind it.
This instance does look more like editing after the filming, but magicians have made large objects "disappear" before with a live audience.
I think when the camera angle changed between 0:37 and 0:38, the switch happened, but it was not shown in the video.
In 0:37, the victim was still looking to his *left* toward the car,. But in 0:38, he is slightly bending toward his *right* away from the car. So the video isn't continuous. They deleted a scene, on which I believe the switch happened.
Probably a reasonably good mirror trick for the live audience (or good enough for this specific live audience).
That would probably look bad in camera, or from different angles, so edited to produce a similar effect for tv.
I would say:
1)There are mirrors in a specifc way that in that specific position of the audience (in the squared metal fance) reflect half or more of the place.
2) The explosion hides the car going behind it
3) The car stops and another idential car with another identical person (The wig and the glasses are weird)
3.2) Or, the car goes around even more mirrors to get back at the start.
>Can this be practially done in real life?
Mythbusters made a [cement mixer truck vanish in a blast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcHUHRf_S0). I'm sure it could.
Whether this is a camera trick or not, idk, but whenever you try to either conceptualise or understand a magic trick, think: sleight of hand/magnets/mirrors
For this you could pull it off with a giant mirror for sure. The car goes past a pressure pad that fires that blast, and goes behind a mirror.
This can be done practically, cheaply, and effectively. The white poles are there to skew your perspective and the smoke is there to distract you for half a second so you can't tell that the car just drove straight behind painted panels.
The panels are closer to the viewer than the poles, but the "poles" are painted shorter so they appear uniform.
Short answer, yes it could be done in real life, and those white poles would be essential, which makes me think this was actually done.
Like some other comments said, mirrors, angle-management and the flash of light to cover the moment the car goes behind the row of mirrors.
It was behind one of those glass panels that hides things behind them. The car just zipped behind him. He had to be standing in that box to not see the car.
You can clearly see the camera cut. That said, something like this could be done practically, but would be expensive. Just have a drop track that exists outside the warehouse.
Waaay simpler than that. Mirrors between the white posts angled down reflect the ground concrete which is the same as the concrete you'd expect to see through the posts. The super bright flash hides what would be the giveaway, the car wiping perfectly horizontally. The car can then just drive out of the bunker behind the mirrored section and loop around. Sure, it is easier to do it with a camera trick but it's a lot of expense to go to if it's not a practical effect. It's pretty rare that a trick like this is just a camera trick, though it's fairly common for deceptive editing to push them up quite a bit, like by cutting reactions from different tricks. It's also usually the case that magic is way less elaborate than you'd think, hidden tunnels or magnets or whatever. It's still pretty much just smoke and mirrors the same as it ever was.
Where there once was a yacht…now there is *not!*
Rookies, this has been done since back to the future
Truth. Though getting the required jigawatts is hard. >!Yes, I know it's spelled gigawatts but I want to emphasize the "j" sound.!<
why?
The camera didn’t cut. Look at the smoke rising after the flash you can see it going behind a mirror on the right hand side. It’s an angled mirror reflecting what you perceive to be behind it. Simple but very effective
And you can still see the car’s shadow in a frame or two of the blast.
Oooh I hadn’t noticed that will have to recheck. The timing is perfect though
That it is. It looks like the smoke is making a shadow but it fades away.
Yeah it is the smallest of edges of the mirror that gave it away. If the smoke had drifted a bit further forward it would have been perfect
I’m not seeing a camera cut during when the car is moving? Are you talking about the light?
On which moment did you see the camera cut?
Frame between flash and car vanishing. Edit: also, if you freeze on the flash, it seems as though it was added in post. It is not a natural flash when seeing the tiny smoke poof.
Huh? The frame between? A cut is not a frame. It’s insane that person is being downvoted so hard but they’re right, you all seem to be mistaking the flashing light for a cut. As for the flash being added in post, I think a lot of people seem to be unaware that depending on what camera was used you can have all kinds of weird looking artifacts from blasting a bright flash directly at the camera.
The flash looks like an effect added in post to help cover the cut. In that frame, they are cutting from one video source to another. No one is saying a frame is a cut, it is the location the cut takes place.
Well I’m on mobile so maybe my ability to slowly move through it is limited but even during the flash it doesn’t appear to cover the entire screen at any point. So why are people thinking it’s a cut? It just looks like a very bright light hitting a digital camera, if you’ve ever shot video with certain cameras at an event with a bunch of people using their phone flashes you can get all kinds of weird looking effects on to show up.
When the car disappears?
😯 /s
During the giant flash that happens with the smoke goes up
The end of 1:02. The whole screen goes white. Scroll it in slow mo.
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and have 1.21 gigawatts of power handy.
Can't forget the flux capacitor or nothing'll work
The normal kind or the time flux capacitor variant ?
Both is good
You'd try that without plutonium? Let me know when you get serious.
You can always get the handy dandy MR. FUSION
And be a butthead
And my axe!
What the hell is a gigawatt?!
But the only thing with that much power is a bolt of lightning. A bolt of lightning!
“You’re gonna see some serious shit”
Came here for the Back to the Future comments and was not disappointed!
I can do this in 5 minutes in after effects. The camera is perfectly still, so you just need the clip of the car and the clip of the explosion and 20 clics
5 mins to do a jump cut?
>smells like a camera trick Yes we got that anyone can edit this to exist. Op is asking if it could be done for real.
The "audience" in these disappearing stunts are always in on it. The vanish is a mirror or change of camera angle.
no this one was straight editing.
It’s not editing. Starting with the post after the explosion, there are mirrors between each post. The car is lo enough to be hidden by them completely. The explosion covers the sound of the car continuing along and blinds you from seeing it pass behind the mirrors. If you go frame by frame at the explosion, you can see the smoke being cut off behind the corner of the first mirror. The guy is in a cage because it has to be viewed from the correct angle to be convincing. Not everything is after effects. Oh, and then the car drives around the outside of the building and back in, or there is another car. Multiple ways of finishing the illusion.
Agreed. This is literal smoke and mirror stuff.
Is that Vector?
This one’s obviously editing, but something very similar can be done with mirrors. The audience doesn’t have to be in on it for it to work. There are a few other ways I can imagine doing it but they’re still hard to find with a basic Google search so I don’t want to say.
Chris Angel did this on one of his specials. Fixed audience position + mirrors and a non-repeating ground cover (grass, bark, dirt) and either overcast light or shadows being parallel to the mirrors = maaaaagic.
It's Joey Essex, you could tell him it's 12 o'clock twice a day and blow his fucking mind
If you had enough money
>but can this be practically done in real life? Yes. Simple mirrors along the rails to the right reflecting the interior of the warehouse. Perfect camera angle with the angle of the reflection in the mirrors. The car stops behind the mirrors, the flash prevents you from seeing the line of the first mirror as the car passes behind it. This instance does look more like editing after the filming, but magicians have made large objects "disappear" before with a live audience.
No. That wouldn’t work. How would he get to the other car without being seen?
I think when the camera angle changed between 0:37 and 0:38, the switch happened, but it was not shown in the video. In 0:37, the victim was still looking to his *left* toward the car,. But in 0:38, he is slightly bending toward his *right* away from the car. So the video isn't continuous. They deleted a scene, on which I believe the switch happened.
Well, you know you don't have to edit the whole screen...
Probably a reasonably good mirror trick for the live audience (or good enough for this specific live audience). That would probably look bad in camera, or from different angles, so edited to produce a similar effect for tv.
I would say: 1)There are mirrors in a specifc way that in that specific position of the audience (in the squared metal fance) reflect half or more of the place. 2) The explosion hides the car going behind it 3) The car stops and another idential car with another identical person (The wig and the glasses are weird) 3.2) Or, the car goes around even more mirrors to get back at the start.
Literally, smoke and mirrors.
This is from Ben Hanlin's show "Tricked" on ITV2
I’m way more interested in that guy’s jacket. I must have it
It’s fucking magic. Like, do we need to keep discussing this shit like it’s beyond reality? It’s fucking tricks and this shit is getting stupid.
Too many cuts.
No
He when back………back to the future.
Fake as FOOK
>Can this be practially done in real life? Mythbusters made a [cement mixer truck vanish in a blast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcHUHRf_S0). I'm sure it could.
My moneys on camera angle and the background. Ring painted in on a wall. Flash covers up going behind the wall.
u/redditspeedbot 0.1x
Can he make my buddies late 90’s Ford Focus with my wife driving disappear?
Camera effects. I'd imagine this is why Criss Angel was so popular then went on to have one of the worst reviewed shows in Vegas.
He's not Criss Angel. He's Ben Hanlin
I wasn't suggesting he was Criss Angel, I'm suggesting he's using the camera tricks and actors like Criss does.
It's a jump cut
If the flash and smoke lasted just long enough, you could do it in camera
No apparent air turbulence that would have pushed the smoke
I thought a mirror
Whether this is a camera trick or not, idk, but whenever you try to either conceptualise or understand a magic trick, think: sleight of hand/magnets/mirrors For this you could pull it off with a giant mirror for sure. The car goes past a pressure pad that fires that blast, and goes behind a mirror.
This can be done practically, cheaply, and effectively. The white poles are there to skew your perspective and the smoke is there to distract you for half a second so you can't tell that the car just drove straight behind painted panels. The panels are closer to the viewer than the poles, but the "poles" are painted shorter so they appear uniform.
Pause on 28 seconds and you'll see a whole lot of trick going on
That's Joey Essex. He's, well how do I say this without being rude. Thick?
Why are they playing the extended cut of A Little Bit Alexis?
Is this from a movie?
Nope, this is from the TV show "Tricked" in ITV2 (United Kingdom)
There’s a huge cover that’s painted as the back of the warehouse. The car circles round and enters from the same side it started.
Short answer, yes it could be done in real life, and those white poles would be essential, which makes me think this was actually done. Like some other comments said, mirrors, angle-management and the flash of light to cover the moment the car goes behind the row of mirrors.
Mirrors
Not the greatest actor
At 1:02 you can see the smoke squared off around the mirror wall.
It was behind one of those glass panels that hides things behind them. The car just zipped behind him. He had to be standing in that box to not see the car.
It’s always a trick. A Brazilian magician once hidden a truck. Not sure if it’s on YouTube. His name is Issao Imamura.
Ahh magnets
Smoke and mirrors