Bullet time

Along with the dolly zoom bullet time is a technique that I like to. I think when ever i see bullet time being used well. When bullet time is used in "The Matrix" it is used to actually show how fast the character is moving. This might sound strange but it convays how fast he is moving very easily.

Another example of bullet time is in a film called "Swordfish", in the scene there is a bomb explosion in the mibble of the road in a hostage situation. When the bomb goes off the camera starts an arc motion around the whole explosion. The camera takes around about 40seconds to arc around the whole and if they didnt use bullet time then they would have to arc at the same speed as the explosion whitch would take less than a second so the audience wouldnt know what is going on. You can watch that clip here.... SWORDFISH bomb scene