Summary of How Frozen-In-Time Scenes Are Shot For Movies And TV | Movies Insider | Insider

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Filmmakers use special effects to create scenes that look frozen in time. For example, in "Days of Future Past," special effects studio Rising Sun Pictures created digital versions of characters and objects to preserve the delicate balance of keeping them frozen in place, but not frozen in place.

• 00:00:00 Frozen-in-time scenes are shot with advanced technology and CGI, often using practical effects and rotoscoping to hide motion and errors. For example, in "The Matrix," the camera was actually running at 96 frames per second, and to capture "Quicksilver time" in "Days of Future Past" and "Apocalypse," the "X-Men" team used a Phantom camera capable of both filming 3,000 frames per second and moving at 90 miles per hour.
• 00:05:00 In order to create scenes that look frozen in time, filmmakers often use special effects to fake movement. For "Days of Future Past," special effects studio Rising Sun Pictures created digital versions of characters and objects to preserve the delicate balance of keeping them frozen in place, but not frozen in place. For "Apocalypse," the visual effects studio was hired to create digital versions of the students Quicksilver saves and the table he surfs on.