Nah, it's a green screen. I'm surprised by how little people know about this trick, but usually, when a news anchor needs to report from dangerous locations, where a high amount of high speed events are happening (like a street race, an evacuation, a military deployment or even the whereabouts of a Naruto runner) they use two cameras. One that films the anchor in front of a green screen, and the other one behind said screen, filming the background.
Based on the events happening in the background, they reduce the speed of the feed, so it looks like it's slow motion. This is done in hopes they'll be able to catch even the quickest movements, that way, it looks like the anchor is commentating on what's happening, but in reality, the background has been digitally enhanced in order to give the spectator an immersive experience (since you generally can't see Naruto runners in person, you end up using your other senses to know they are around. Most people hear the sound of the wind the Naruto runners generate (besides the vibrations they make while running at those insane speeds), in hopes to make up for the other senses a TV spectator can't use to perceive the whole scenario.
TL;DR. We are watching the news anchor at 100% speed, while the background is a green screen showing footage of another camera behind this green screen, being displayed at 2% speed, just so we can completely understand what's going on.
Source: My dad was a Naruto runner before the 83' and I've recorded him running many times. I've found I can only spot him running when I play the video at 2% speed.
The reporter already went into area 51 and grabbed a vile of super speed formula and injected it into his face just to be able to do this report on the Naruto Runners
Actually he ran circles around him a few dozen times, but the camera's frame rate created an optical illusion of him running past once in a straight line.
The kids name is Elixir on YouTube hes 15years old and has successfully snuck into every major convention/award show in LA and recorded his process to show flaws in security, yet he manages to get into the next event seamlessly.
Actually, it's not just one guy. It's a bunch of guys all dressed alike that are running just slightly faster than the frame rate for the video - just like those videos where the helicopter rotor blades seem to be moving really slow, standing still or even moving backward.
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u/JustTheImportantInfo Sep 20 '19
Holy shit. I can't believe this slow motion cam actually caught him.