Out of Sync

摘要

It's not unusual for victims of violent car crashes to report having experienced the event in slow motion, as if they had been propelled into another dimension where seconds passed like minutes. Just such an experience unfolds vividly and dramatically in the opening crash scene in the race-car film Driven. "Director Renny Harlin's vision for the scene was to show the audience what a driver sees and feels during a crash," says Ray Mclntyre Jr., visual-effects supervisor at Pixel Magic (Toluca Lake, CA), which created the digital effects for the scene. "We did this by mixing real-time and slow-motion effects. Everything occurring around the crash—such as the other cars moving on the track—is in real time, but the entire accident itself unfolds in slow motion. When Renny explained his idea, we thought it might look odd, but once we did it, we knew it was a brilliant idea."