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HCIsland · 04-11-2003, 09:01 AM

A shot that always impressed me was in the battle scene on Amon Hen just after Aragorn hears Boromir's horn. The camera tracks with the running Aragorn for a sec but then it lifts up into trees and pans down following the orcs as they are running down the hill.<P>I always wondered how they did that shot because it couldn't have been a crane as it was obvious the camera was moving quickly through the tree canopy. PJ explains it in the director's commentary. The camera was on a long wire track that was rigged through the trees and operated by remote control. <P>Brilliant.<P>H.C.

04-11-2003, 09:01 AM	#15
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	A shot that always impressed me was in the battle scene on Amon Hen just after Aragorn hears Boromir's horn. The camera tracks with the running Aragorn for a sec but then it lifts up into trees and pans down following the orcs as they are running down the hill.<P>I always wondered how they did that shot because it couldn't have been a crane as it was obvious the camera was moving quickly through the tree canopy. PJ explains it in the director's commentary. The camera was on a long wire track that was rigged through the trees and operated by remote control. <P>Brilliant.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor