TP effect in Smashing Pumpkins video 1979

Post by **Alex_W** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:59 pm

I've always wondered how they did the toiletpaper effect in this video. It's a shot where you see a roll of toiletpaper fly up a tree, but the roll stays neatly in front of the lens. Did they rig the roll to the camera and then removed the rig somehow? Or maybe they superimposed the rolling toiletpaper to a shot where the camera moves back up the tree.
Has anyone any thoughts on this? It's a shot that somehow stuck around in my head all those years. I guess that's a prove of quality.
Great song as well.

Post by **steve hyde** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:44 am

....hmm - have not seen the video, but perhaps this could be done with fishing line by rigging the TP to the camera -then rigging the camera to a pully that could be placed on a crane. A rope would attach the camera - the rope would thread through the pully then some one could throw the camera while the rope and pully insure that it doesn't hit the ground. A super 8 camera that runs at 54 fps would work - then speed up the TP toss in post..

just a thought..

STeve

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:54 am

Put the camera on a crane, and set up a support bracket to hang the toilet paper roll from?

How much does the roll move in the shot? Is it locked down?

Post by **timdrage** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:01 pm

Not seen it... when was it made? Assuming it's recent enough to be digital, they could have used motion tracking to recenter the footage?

Post by **Alex_W** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:54 pm

Evan Kubota wrote:Put the camera on a crane, and set up a support bracket to hang the toilet paper roll from?

How much does the roll move in the shot? Is it locked down?

It's rolling around like mad. I like the shot because it looks so natural, although it's obviously a very tricky and difficult shot to get. I will try to find a link to the video.

Post by **Alex_W** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:11 pm

timdrage wrote:Not seen it... when was it made? Assuming it's recent enough to be digital, they could have used motion tracking to recenter the footage?

It was first aired in 1996, and it's from the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album. The video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.

http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/smashing_pu ... dvid.jhtml

You can find a link to the video here, but it didn't work somehow. I'm posting it anyway.