10 More Bizarre Ways Directors Tricked Audiences
2. Digital Camera Shake Was Added To The Practical Plane Stunt - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
The fifth Mission: Impossible film, Rogue Nation, kicks off with a mesmerising feat of practical stunt work in which Tom Cruise hangs off the side of a plane as it takes flight thousands of feet into the air.
While Cruise was obviously safely tethered to the plane at all times, it was nevertheless a breathtaking stunt sold entirely on its practical, in-camera achievement - aside from Cuirse's tether being digitally removed in post-production, of course.
Yet a comparison between the raw footage shot on the day and the final completed image reveals a most curious difference - the version of the shot featured in the movie contains a ton of camera shake that wasn't in the original shot and therefore must've been added digitally.
The reason for this? The raw version of the shot is butter-smooth to the point that audiences might actually be suspicious that Cruise was simply digitally composited into the background and hanging from a plane on wires.
But by adding some subtle-yet-effective digital camera shake to the shot, it cleverly sells it as more real, that we're watching a camera reacting to wind resistance and jostling around a little in the air.