This was shot using a camera dolly and a "graphically balanced" mise-en-scène, intended to leave the character seeming as "balanced, confident, strong" as "the Rock of Gibraltar".
To accommodate Raimi's style of direction, several elaborate, low-budget rigs had to be built, since the crew could not afford a camera dolly.
Diff said it will soon produce a add-on case back that will accommodate screw-on accessory lenses, a limited-edition case in aluminum and a scaled-down camera dolly as well as a jib, suitable for a Lilliputian studio.
"That is why shoots that move the camera are super expensive as the camera dolly needs to painstakingly be painted out in post".
It starts unassumingly enough, with the guy running suicide sprints and the girl looking longingly at him, but things quickly descend into the surreal and erotic as the camera dollies inside a very, very long gym locker, which opens to reveal the girl with her legs open over a locker room bench, and the boy's head between them.
This technique was put to significant use during the "Beauty and the Beast" waltz sequence, in which Belle and Beast dance through a computer-generated ballroom as the camera dollies around them in simulated 3D space.
Assembly is pretty self explanatory from the pictures, and the end result is a smooth rolling camera dolly that's light, easy to transport, and cheap.
He does not remove the cigar as the camera dollies past him and to his right, past a candy and ice-cream counter laden with Baby Ruth bars, Oh Henry! bars, Almond joy bars, Planters Peanuts, Frozen Ice Cream Puffs, and Chuckles.
Much is made of Lugosi's burning gaze, as the camera dollies in to isolate his eyes in anticipation of Sergio Leone's gigantic close-ups.
