Youtube Spider vs Bee doco

[Bulldog Force]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbuysNGLOM&feature=fvw

Saw the above documentary on Youtube. My question, it looks real enough. How does the cameraman or whoever is filming this get such good close-up vision of it? I mean, the Bee looks like it's looking flower right into some sort of camera that might be there? Also the closeup of the bee while it's flying? This all looks like it's some sort of real animation the way they get everything done so perfectly. Maybe it is, but for someone like me it looks real enough.

 

[Danish]

I imagine it would have been filmed in a studio under very controlled conditions.

The bee hovering over the flower would have simply been a small camera inside a false flower baited to attract the bee.

Close ups of the spider and all that would have been shot with telescopic lenses and also in extremely high def so the image could be cropped to suit.

The flying bee can be filmed in a number of ways, the easiest of which would literally be tying to bee to a string and filming it flying in a single spot in front of a blue screen.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Arrr ok. Thanks mate. I did imagine that it would be filmed under controlled conditions but wasn't sure if it was in a studio or not. Also couldn't see how the Bee was attracted to a fake flower... but who knows. Possibly!

 

[Danish]

Well I could be wrong but either way this reminds me of how awesome tying insects to string is.


Whack a bee, fly or any other flying insect in the freezer for about 1-2 minutes and it will fall unconscious. Take it out and you'll have about 2 minutes to get a string tied around it's body before it wakes up and flies around on it's tether.

Hilarious when mixed with alcohol

 

[Bulldog Force]

Well I could be wrong but either way this reminds me of how awesome tying insects to string is.


Whack a bee, fly or any other flying insect in the freezer for about 1-2 minutes and it will fall unconscious. Take it out and you'll have about 2 minutes to get a string tied around it's body before it wakes up and flies around on it's tether.

Hilarious when mixed with alcohol

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart and Milhouse do it and end up in the Flanders house :lol:

 

[zombie jesus]

Well I could be wrong but either way this reminds me of how awesome tying insects to string is.


Whack a bee, fly or any other flying insect in the freezer for about 1-2 minutes and it will fall unconscious. Take it out and you'll have about 2 minutes to get a string tied around it's body before it wakes up and flies around on it's tether.

Hilarious when mixed with alcohol

:lol: I know what I'm doing this weekend.

 

[Chook Norris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2agWcQ3eGOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPmMa0akbA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMfT7qXy1k&feature=related

:lol:

 

[Danish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrx49TOKyno&feature=youtube_gdata_player


This is the best vid. From CKY (original jackass crew, pre-jackass).

Using flies is no good as you need really thin cotton or else they won't get off the ground. Bees can still fly perfectly carrying te string.

Dragonflies are the ultimate, but it's not like they are just lying about the place

 

[innsaneink]

Well I could be wrong but either way this reminds me of how awesome tying insects to string is.


Whack a bee, fly or any other flying insect in the freezer for about 1-2 minutes and it will fall unconscious. Take it out and you'll have about 2 minutes to get a string tied around it's body before it wakes up and flies around on it's tether.

Hilarious when mixed with alcohol

We used to do that with a girls long hair....the hair became invisible when the fly was moving