Canadian garden railway

Very nice layout, beautifuly detailed, thanks for posting.

How is the transition done? Not sure about that but in the first half the camera appears to be mounted on a boom and the smoothness of the tracking makes me think he has a "steadi-mount" of some kind. Though there is no tricksy zooming and focus pulling to go with it.

I thought perhaps the camera had a bogie under it so as it swooped down what you saw and heard was that running on the track guiding the camera while it is still being moved by the boom - but then how do you expain the run through the tunnel and under the bridge? Maybe the edit occurs after the "touch down" but before the bridge, classic bit of the illusionist's misdirection technique? One for Johnathan Creek maybe? I'm sure there is a simple explanation but it is fun tryng to guess.
Max
 
There is a longish section showing the pond with the train out of shot just before the transition. My guess is that a leading flatbed truck was attached to the train with camera mount so the cam could swoop into position on the truck seamlessly for the rest of the filming (or it was all filmed with a keyfob style cam that was simply attached to the nose of the loco).
 
I'm leaning toward the big hand in the sky, simply placing the camera on the moving train.
 
Madman said:
I'm leaning toward the big hand in the sky, simply placing the camera on the moving train.
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That's my thought but it's very slick. How did he get it to remain secure and get it to be upright in one deft movement?
Rik
 
How about if it was recorded in reverse, so the loco reveres to the pond, stops, and the camera lifted off.
Then a matching shot on ?the boom? could be got at leisure..
There are a number of points where the background seems to 'jump' in size. - Thinking the buildings back of shot after 'touchdown'. Do not know if this is where cuts have been made, or an artefact of the camera auto-focus??
Just a thought..
 
Nothing high-tec about it, it's obviously done with old fashioned smoke and mirrors....

David
 
Nice railway, however it was filmed....
 
PhilP said:
How about if it was recorded in reverse, so the loco reveres to the pond, stops, and the camera lifted off.
Then a matching shot on ?the boom? could be got at leisure..
There are a number of points where the background seems to 'jump' in size. - Thinking the buildings back of shot after 'touchdown'. Do not know if this is where cuts have been made, or an artefact of the camera auto-focus??
Just a thought..
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Nice idea, Phil. Can't get a clear view of the running water to see if it's flowing uphill - but as you say, would be a lot easier to scoop the camera off the track than try to swoop it down,

Rik
 
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