Comments on: Kobe Explains Miraculous Aerial Over Aston Martin http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: detroitnavy http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131#comment-857 detroitnavy Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:44:18 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131#comment-857 Since this is the viral marketing topic I though I would virally market my good buddy JT the Brick. The sports medial journal.com just ran ran a March Madness tournament for sports broadcasters and JT won the whole thing. Proving once again that he is the best late night sports talk show host in America today. Since this is the viral marketing topic I though I would virally market my good buddy JT the Brick. The sports medial journal.com just ran ran a March Madness tournament for sports broadcasters and JT won the whole thing. Proving once again that he is the best late night sports talk show host in America today.

]]> By: Brooks http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131#comment-854 Brooks Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:29:43 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131#comment-854 I can't imagine it wasn't 'shopped. Having Kobe 10 feet away from a car going that speed - that would seem to be pretty dangerous. Who knows what could happen. I can’t imagine it wasn’t ’shopped. Having Kobe 10 feet away from a car going that speed - that would seem to be pretty dangerous. Who knows what could happen.

]]> By: Read http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131#comment-847 Read Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:46:43 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kobe-explains-car-jump-video-17131#comment-847 This stunt was possibly filmed in real time, with no digital editing involved. None was needed, because Kobe did not actually jump over the Aston Martin. It is tough to see on the YouTube video because the frame rate is about half the rate of TV. I Tivo’d it from the evening news, and if you examine the shadows on the ground, it looks like Kobe is standing closer to the camera than the car is by perhaps a few feet. By clever use of camera angle and probably a long lens, as well as the antics before and after the stunt, it is made to seem like Kobe was directly in front of the car. That said, had Kobe actually been in front of the car, the jump would have been successful. The only real question is, how many times did they have to try the stunt to get the timing right? By doing some simple timing of the stunt and a little math, it is easy to calculate that the car was traveling about 20 mph, which is about 29.3 feet per second. The car is 14 ft. 4.5 in. long according to the Aston Martin web site. About 13 ft. of it can be seen in the frame of view. Kobe is in the air for about 0.9 seconds in the version I Tivo’d, which translates into about 26.3 feet of travel for the car. The car is just entering frame when Kobe leaves the ground, and is just leaving frame when he touches the ground again. With a 13 ft. frame of view and a 14 foot car, that makes 27 ft. so the numbers check. But the timing has to be perfect, so if he got it right the first time, he is incredible. Alternatively, the Aston Martin could have been Photoshopped in later. That is so easy to do these days. But I don't think they did. A little clever camera work, along with Kobe and his buddy doing a pretty good sell job is much more elegant. This stunt was possibly filmed in real time, with no digital editing involved. None was needed, because Kobe did not actually jump over the Aston Martin. It is tough to see on the YouTube video because the frame rate is about half the rate of TV. I Tivo’d it from the evening news, and if you examine the shadows on the ground, it looks like Kobe is standing closer to the camera than the car is by perhaps a few feet. By clever use of camera angle and probably a long lens, as well as the antics before and after the stunt, it is made to seem like Kobe was directly in front of the car. That said, had Kobe actually been in front of the car, the jump would have been successful. The only real question is, how many times did they have to try the stunt to get the timing right?

By doing some simple timing of the stunt and a little math, it is easy to calculate that the car was traveling about 20 mph, which is about 29.3 feet per second. The car is 14 ft. 4.5 in. long according to the Aston Martin web site. About 13 ft. of it can be seen in the frame of view. Kobe is in the air for about 0.9 seconds in the version I Tivo’d, which translates into about 26.3 feet of travel for the car. The car is just entering frame when Kobe leaves the ground, and is just leaving frame when he touches the ground again. With a 13 ft. frame of view and a 14 foot car, that makes 27 ft. so the numbers check. But the timing has to be perfect, so if he got it right the first time, he is incredible.

Alternatively, the Aston Martin could have been Photoshopped in later. That is so easy to do these days. But I don’t think they did. A little clever camera work, along with Kobe and his buddy doing a pretty good sell job is much more elegant.

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