First of all: is one shot. He is always looking at the camera and saying his text. There’s no lip sync, every time he modulates his voice you can see his lips doing the job. They wanted to do it without any computer tricks on the main action, so they used a real log, he walked through real water, this was a location, real lake, built the kitchen, the waterfall and the tub, stuff like that.
It’s a real cake, a real saw, a real bike, a real tub and real jeans. They were wet, had texture and volume, and even drained the water when the tub collapses.
The log was fixed so it would not move when he walked on it, then, there is a platform of glass about 1 or 2 inches underwater, so he walked on it. There was a mechanism to drop the cake and he had to catch it every time, kinda raw thing. The kitchen is all made up, it’s a little studio built next to the water. Obviously he’s wired when he “flies” and lands on the bike. When the camera goes backwards, you can’t see what his hands are doing. This is the critical moment. They filmed Isaiah wearing the wet pants on a model bike, green screen, then put the pants on him digitally here. You can see his right hand slipping a bit over the pants like they were not real pants. But they are real pants, just like the diamonds on the first of these. They were real, shot in green screen too and put together digitally.

I will buy copy #1 – please hurry it to market I am not a TAM hotshot so I need to buy one like the common man…..

Bill

Just kidding Captain D, I wish you luck at TAM with it and will purchase it shortly after Summer is over – just got to get a location for it to be sent to.

Catch you on the flip side!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

That is perhaps more fitting than it was intended to be.