WW2 GUN CAMERA REEL : As real as it gets

[Taog]

Hi fellow pilots !

 

I really wanted to make an video that looked like those old mesmerizing gun camera footage from WW2,

 

This is my attempt at recreating the atmosphere, I hope you guys will find it as soothing as I do :

 

 

 

See you in the air !

Edited August 1, 2018 by II./JG77_Taog

[SAS_Bombsaway]

VERY cool. I love the old projector sound you added with it.

[Taog]

9 minutes ago, SAS_Bombsaway said:

VERY cool. I love the old projector sound you added with it.

 

Thank you ! 

 

I always liked this sound ... I find it relaxing ?

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

great video love the effect..

But what happened to the 111 @  02:30 You shooting the left wing and right wing starts leaking? ?

 

[SAS_Bombsaway]

3 hours ago, II./JG77_Taog said:

 

Thank you ! 

 

I always liked this sound ... I find it relaxing ?

I grew up with the real sound as my parents in the 70's would set up the screen and the projector to watch home movies. With homemade popcorn. Thanks for bringing that sound back.

[Taog]

5 hours ago, =TBAS=Sshadow14 said:

great video love the effect..

But what happened to the 111 @  02:30 You shooting the left wing and right wing starts leaking? ?

 

 

It’s hard to see but I fired a couple rounds on the right wing as well ! ?

 

3 hours ago, SAS_Bombsaway said:

Thanks for bringing that sound back.

 

My pleasure ?

[=EXPEND=13SchwarzeHand]

As reel as it gets!

[Haza]

Would strongly suggest watch whilst listening to this!

 

 

[=EXPEND=13SchwarzeHand]

Beethoven wouldnt approve of all these German planes getting shot down  ?

[Haza]

2 minutes ago, =EXPEND=SchwarzeDreizehn said:

Beethoven wouldnt approve of all these German planes getting shot down  ?

 

Just tell him!! ?

[Taog]

Ahah, ?

 

As I wanted to keep this "raw footage" I didn't want to put music, but you are right it fits perfectly

[Ceowulf]

Nice work.   How did you get that look?  I've often wished we had a button for it in our Flight Record playback, just for cool factor.  

 

Thanks,

Ceowulf<><

[SCG_ItsDrifter]

Hey Ceowulf, you can actually, Just press LAlt+F2 to cycle threw the looks, and then zoom in when you have the camera near the nose, and it looks just like a guncam

Edited August 8, 2018 by SCG_DR1FT3R

[Ceowulf]

Oh, no I was actually talking about the cool black and white, WW2 quality reel film look he got.  Thanks!

 

Ceowulf<><  

 

Edit:  Maybe I wrote to fast and that's what you're saying.  I've never tried "cycle through the looks."

Edited August 8, 2018 by Ceowulf

[Rjel]

I use Nero burning program to reproduce the aged B/W look.

[9./JG27golani79]

You could probably have added more grain and blurred the footage a bit as the old footage always is pretty blurry and grainy.

 

Otherweise well done!

 

 

[Rjel]

28 minutes ago, 9./JG27golani79 said:

You could probably have added more grain and blurred the footage a bit as the old footage always is pretty blurry and grainy.

 

Otherweise well done!

 

 

I have to disagree. I've seen quite a lot of WWII era guncam, both B/W and color that looks like it was shot yesterday. The late war ETO stuff in particular is usually quite good. It also depends on the original source. Much of what we see on Youtube and the like isn't mastered from very good source material generally. Some of the stuff I've watched that is listed as being in HD is laughable. The person who puts it up quite often only stretches the image to fill a wide screen ratio and uses video that often has been posted elseware long before. There are some good quality versions of Fight for the Sky on Youtube. Look for the 41 plus minute version narrated by Reed Hadley, not the shorter version done with Ronald Reagan. While the quality of the guncam sources varies, overall the film looks very sharp.

Edited August 8, 2018 by Rjel

[9./JG27golani79]

Havent watched the whole 40 minutes yet but took a look at several different scenes and while the footage in between has very good quality the gun camera footage itself is also very grainy and blurry.

The blur probably comes from the shaking / vibrating of the plane when firing whereas grain is just natural on analogue film.

 

I know - blur isnt normally something you wanna add on purpose to the footage but in some cases it might add a little to the overall look if not overdone.

In the case of guncam footage maybe a camerashake instead of blurring might add a bit to realism in recreating such footage.

 

Sometimes CG / digital etc can be too perfect in certain aspects and this is when something sticks out.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 8, 2018 by 9./JG27golani79