bullet time n.

Filmmakers have employed a technique they call ‘bullet-time photography’, ultra-fast lensing that, when combined with computer enhancement, allows for altering the speed and trajectories of people and objects, resulting in the live-action equivalent of a Japanese anime film.

To keep the action going, the ‘bullet time’ team didn’t actually fire their 120 cameras simultaneously, but fractions of a second after each other, creating super slow-motion instead.

The recognition that time and space have become more fluid is articulated through the ‘bullet time’ effect that allows the camera to move fluidly through a ‘frozen moment’.

We always wanted to do it with a ‘bullet time’ rig but when we actually went out to the companies who do this professionally we found them to be way too expensive so we looked at various options as to how you create a frozen time-style shot.

Flash is introduced with far wittier dialogue than anything Joss Whedon came up with, followed by a mesmerizing bullet-time sequence in which he saves a young woman from a car accident.