Movie question, Live By Night

[Bob_Church 7]

This isn't about skydiving, well, maybe a few seconds of it but I was wondering is anyone else had seen the movie "Live by Night" with Ben Affleck. It's not all that good a movie but early on they have the standard montage of deaths as two mobs battle it out.There's one scene that I just can't work out. They toss a guy off a roof and he lands in the street. But short of this being a variation on Dr Kevorkian's practice I can't see how they did the shot. There's no cut, at least none I can see.
And clues?

[ryoder 1,590]

The point at 0:52 in this trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcQUlXcCKw

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[MikeJD 0]

The shot in the trailer is cut up, so it's difficult to see what's going on, but if you see an apparently continuous take like that in a modern movie, chances are computer graphics are involved.

You can literally do anything now with CGI, whether it's enhancing live action using composite shots or constructing a whole shot from scratch with no real elements at all. How convincing the result is depends on the money invested and the skills of the people involved.

A typical way to construct a shot like someone falling from the top of a building all the way to impact might be as follows.

First you might film a live stunt player making the fall, either onto a crash pad/ air bags, or using a harness to slow him or her down before impact. Then you digitally erase the harness and cables or the air bags from the shot, which is a pretty fundamental use of CGI.

Next, if you want to show the impact, you can replace the actor's body with a fully computer-generated replica at some point during the descent, and have that 'impact' at ground level. It's relatively trivial now to cut those two shots together seamlessly.

I remember something similar was done in the first Men In Black movie, and that was 20 years ago.

[Bob_Church 7]

MikeJD

The shot in the trailer is cut up, so it's difficult to see what's going on, but if you see an apparently continuous take like that in a modern movie, chances are computer graphics are involved.

You can literally do anything now with CGI, whether it's enhancing live action using composite shots or constructing a whole shot from scratch with no real elements at all. How convincing the result is depends on the money invested and the skills of the people involved.

A typical way to construct a shot like someone falling from the top of a building all the way to impact might be as follows.

First you might film a live stunt player making the fall, either onto a crash pad/ air bags, or using a harness to slow him or her down before impact. Then you digitally erase the harness and cables or the air bags from the shot, which is a pretty fundamental use of CGI.

Next, if you want to show the impact, you can replace the actor's body with a fully computer-generated replica at some point during the descent, and have that 'impact' at ground level. It's relatively trivial now to cut those two shots together seamlessly.

I remember something similar was done in the first Men In Black movie, and that was 20 years ago.

That's got to be it. I was thinking in terms of cables and stuntmen, but unlike the trailer the scene has no cuts, it's all the way from the roof to the pavement and that last smack looks so real.