Sandra Bullock is my new actor hero. I just saw her in Gravity for my moms b-day movie. I was wondering how they got the amazing zero gravity effect. Heres how they did it. Bullock, like her co-star George Clooney, was harnessed with around a dozen carbon-thin wires across her body to train, and tied into a rig inside a tailor-made cube adorned by over four thousand LED light bulbs. The bulbs could simulate whatever brightness, speed and color were required to capture the light of Earth below and sun in the distance as her astronaut character spun and slammed into stuff. The 12-wire rig that was operated by a team of puppeteers. Bullock served as a sort of live marionette, spending hours (sometimes up to ten hours at time) in the rig, “floating” in space. A cheerleader and gymnast in high school, Bullock used her early training to make it appear as though she was gliding effortlessly through the interior of the International Space Station. “It’s just core strength,” Bullock explained. “From a dancer’s perspective, just making sure that you weren’t going to hurt your body -- that you could be very agile and physical to maintain your body in a rig that’s load-bearing -- with the load as your weight, for long hours of time.”
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:13:35 +0000
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