But after entertaining friends at a private dinner banquet with a snarky song criticizing Mao Tse-tung – a performance captured by one attendee's cellphone camera - Bi this week found himself in a Brian Williams-sized brouhaha.
"Something is happening that I'd never seen before until I saw that piece of footage," Cave says of the recording studio performance captured by cameras.
Black Box has its own director of photography Adam Myhill, who has pulled in influences – and technology – from CGI flicks such as Avatar, using full performance capture and virtual cameras to create some really gritty, stylish and naturalistic action sequences.
The film is not merely some stage performance captured by fixed cameras in a theater.
Weta worked closely with Standard Deviation, a motion capture hardware company in Santa Monica, Calif., to design and build many of the cameras used in "Rise," said Dejan Momcilovic, head of performance capture at Weta.
Images of the sections were captured using a high performance CCD camera connected to a Leica universal microscope at 20 x magnification (Leica Microsystems Ltd., Milton Keynes, UK).
(Here's a hint, courtesy of Charles Mingus.) It's a series of jazz performances captured in a studio by the camera of Robert Burks (whose work graced most of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, from "Strangers on a Train" through "Marnie").
It's a series of jazz performances captured in a studio by the camera of Robert Burks (whose work graced most of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, from "Strangers on a Train" through "Marnie").
Digital cell images were captured with an In Cell Analyzer 2000 (GE Healthcare, UK) equipped with a high performance CCD camera.
What those cameras captured was a performance that had all the best and worst aspects of the New York Grand Opera's efforts.
Images of adult leg cuticles were captured on a Photometrics CoolSNAP ES high performance digital CCD camera mounted on a Nikon Eclipse 80i microscope.
