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Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:44 pm
by neps
Steve, the Prop Master, sent us this photo for everyone can enjoy it - check it out! It's from them filming the landing of the Turbo Boost. Thanks Steve!

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Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:57 pm
by Faithful Car KRO
Nice.
It looks like the jump it on a, what, 4 or 5 ramp by that picture.
Cant wait till the can jump them higher.

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:05 am
by knightprobe89
that looks really awesome! nice picture!

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:06 am
by _K3000_
Pure Awesomeness! Thanks Steve from the knight rider crew :)

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:18 am
by DevonStyles
God those rims are horrible

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:00 am
by Sky_Blue_Civic
DevonStyles wrote:God those rims are horrible
The reason they're like that is so if Mike ever gets hungry,he can fry some eggs or something with those rims! :D

Plus that is one cool picture by the way! :good:

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:37 am
by BlueChaos
Awesome picture! And funny too seeing those people running around avoiding the car.

Photoshop anyone?

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:51 am
by Dr. Graiman
Is this a real jump? Looks like the mustang is carried by a forklift truck or something like that. And what about the cables on the ground?

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:38 am
by Faithful Car KRO
Dr. Graiman wrote:Is this a real jump? Looks like the mustang is carried by a forklift truck or something like that. And what about the cables on the ground?
They actually do jump the car.....it just isnt done really high. We only see the landings, but everytime the car jumps, the landings are real.

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:16 pm
by Sue
The Knight Writers blog described the jump in more detail.
As for the Herculean labors, well, in this show we have four of them – each once crazier the last. First is a prison break, which we shot at a real prison. All the orange suited guys you’ll see are paid extras, but if you look in the deep, deep background you can also spot the real deal. (Q: How do we know none of the orange-suited inmates got mixed up with the orange-suited extras? A: We don’t!) The prison break sequence is noteworthy ‘cause this is where we wound up wounding Attack Kitt. Not permanently, of course. For the landing shot in the yard we set up a ramp so we could have Kitt jump over the camera. When the time came, the director called “action!” and Kitt made the jump… it was sweet but when he touched down, he cracked his front end something bad. Thank god for nanotechnology (and our team in Transportation, who fixed him up fast)!
http://blog.nbc.com/knightrider/rob_wright/

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:29 pm
by Mr.Marcus
DevonStyles wrote:God those rims are horrible
I don't mind the front attack mode rim. Its the rear drag racing wheel and tire setup that looks horrendous. The whole attack mode is ridiculous anyway. Didn't they learn the lesson from SPM in the original series? I actually like the GT500KR much better than the original Trans Am. The car looks good as is, no attack mode needed.

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:58 pm
by PHOENIXZERO
I still wish the wheels/rims were black. >_>

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:21 pm
by the original KITT
Yeah i agree, wheels should be black and NO ATTACK MODE. IT LOOKS S**T. IT LOOKS UGLY AND MAKES THE CAR LOOK FAT. JUST LIKE SPM. AWFULL. GET RID OF THE WHOLE CONCEPT!

Good pick though, looks fake for some reason, even though the landing is real.


:kitt: :dash:

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:30 pm
by cloudkitt
I do wish the rims were back, but nothing else REALLY grates on me.

ON TOPIC, that's a pretty cool shot. That's a fun/scary time to be an extra :P

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:09 am
by Sky_Blue_Civic
Dr. Graiman wrote:Looks like the mustang is carried by a forklift truck or something like that.
Now that you pointed that out...It just put a new perspective on things.

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:12 am
by cloudkitt
What do you mean, it's not on a forklift. A, you can see the dust coming up out of the wheel wells. B, He said in the blog that they cracked KITT's front jumping the car. C, we watch the car land in the episode.

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:52 am
by Solid Snake
One reason for the image to look fake is if its shot in an extremely low shutter time... this means that the light captured (and thus the image we see) was so brief that there is no visual sense of motion in the image... hence fake looking.

Re: Cool photo from Don't Stop the Knight

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:28 pm
by the original KITT
cloudkitt wrote:What do you mean, it's not on a forklift. A, you can see the dust coming up out of the wheel wells. B, He said in the blog that they cracked KITT's front jumping the car. C, we watch the car land in the episode.
Who ever designed attack mode didn't really think it through. The front end of the car has about an inch if lucky of ground clearance. It's obviously gonna break/crack when it hits the ground nose first. (which it usually does)

:kitt: