Topic: OK Go zero-g video: Upside Down & Inside Out
music_space Member
Posts: 1179 From: Canada Registered: Jul 2001
posted 02-11-2016 01:26 PM
'OK Go' is a musical group who has been specializing in outstanding videos for several years now. They just came out with one shot in zero-G. The FAQ is here.
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-11-2016 02:27 PM
Of note, from the FAQ (linked above):
We were just east of Moscow, close to the the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for Roscomos, the Russian Space Agency, which is located in a place called Star City...
It took months plan and set up, but we were actually on site near the Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia for 3 weeks. During that time we did 21 flights, with 15 zero gravity parabolas per flight, for a total of about two hours and fifteen minutes in weightlessness.
Glint Member
Posts: 1040 From: New Windsor, Maryland USA Registered: Jan 2004
posted 02-11-2016 02:34 PM
Just....WOW!
I liked the flight attendants demonstrating the conservation of angular momentum principle around 01:40.
mode1charlie Member
Posts: 1169 From: Honolulu, HI Registered: Sep 2010
posted 02-11-2016 03:59 PM
That is fantastic.
GACspaceguy Member
Posts: 2474 From: Guyton, GA Registered: Jan 2006
posted 02-11-2016 06:16 PM
AMAZING!!!
spaced out Member
Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
posted 02-12-2016 01:41 AM
Superb.
Ronpur Member
Posts: 1211 From: Brandon, Fl Registered: May 2012
posted 02-12-2016 08:29 AM
Awesome. It looks like it could have been filmed on the Orion Space Shuttle in 2001. But I feel sorry for whoever has to clean up the mess!
Captain Apollo Member
Posts: 260 From: UK Registered: Jun 2004
posted 02-12-2016 12:29 PM
It can't be a continuous shot can it?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-12-2016 12:41 PM
It is a continuous shot, though parts have been removed. From the FAQ:
The video is a single take, but there is some time removed to make that possible.
The longest period of weightlessness that it is possible to achieve in these circumstances is about 27 seconds, and after each period of weightlessness, it takes about five minutes for the plane to recover and prepare for then next round. Because we wanted the video to be a single, uninterrupted routine, we shot continuously over the course of 8 consecutive weightless periods, which took about 45 minutes, total. We paused our actions, and the music, during the non-weightless periods, and then cut out these sections and smoothed over each transition with a morph.
You can spot the moments in the video when we skip ahead in time because they are points when gravity briefly returns. This happens at 0:46, 1:06, 1:27, 1:48, 2:09, 2:30, and 2:50.
The FAQ has more details about how they stretched each 21 segment of the song into the 27 seconds of each zero-g period.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-18-2016 07:13 AM
Here's a making-of video:
posted 02-11-2016 01:26 PM
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