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Beijing Olympic 2008 opening ceremony giant firework footprints
'faked'
Richard Spencer
London
Telegraph
Monday, Aug 11, 2008
As the ceremony got under way with a dramatic,
drummed countdown, viewers watching at home and on giant screens
inside the Bird's Nest National Stadium watched as a series of
giant footprints outlined in fireworks processed gloriously above
the city from Tiananmen Square.
What they did not realise was that what they were watching was
in fact computer graphics, meticulously created over a period
of months and inserted into the coverage electronically at exactly
the right moment.
The fireworks were there for real, outside the stadium. But those
responsible for filming the extravaganza decided in advance it
would be impossible to capture all 29 footprints from the air.
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As a result, only the last, visible from the camera stands inside
the Bird's Nest was captured on film.
The trick was revealed in a local Chinese newspaper, the Beijing
Times, at the weekend.
Gao Xiaolong, head of the visual effects team for the ceremony,
said it had taken almost a year to create the 55-second sequence.
Meticulous efforts were made to ensure the sequence was as unnoticeable
as possible: they sought advice from the Beijing meteorological
office as to how to recreate the hazy effects of Beijing's smog
at night, and inserted a slight camera shake effect to simulate
the idea that it was filmed from a helicopter.
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