We Remade The Batman with Miniatures

With The Penguin coming out, I thought it was time to recreate another shot from The Batman... but this time something much more challenging! Using fires, miniatures, and compositing, we recreated this shot from The Batman on a budget.

Music from Artlist:
Movies Stills from Shotdeck:

I couldn't do these videos without my team:
Anna Peerbolt: Miniature & Costume
Ethan Gough & Paul Koning: BTS
Andrew Samuelson: PA
Jacobb Leyva: PA
Connor Harrington: PA
Allie Baker: Wife/PA

[anilyolsal]

This is incredible! The fact that I couldn't even tell which one was the original at the end for a second is mind blowing! Great job as always man!

[MrRedstoneready]

Lots of comments praising the extreme skill behind the composite shot, but not nearly enough talking about the sound design, lighting, cinematography and storytelling in this entire video. Beyond impressive to shoot a video of this style like it's a short film.

[kievkiller]

The editing and storytelling in this video is equally as impressive as the miniature result. Outstanding!

[simonlegosson]

I’d like to think that William’s office wasn’t specifically lit for this video. The cinematic lightning just radiates from his aura.

[bobogus]

For in the future, a leafblower is a potentially better (and cheaper) alternative to fans if you need strong airflow, especially when you don't need audio (although that can be dubbed over in post). That technique was used in the music video for VoicePlay's cover of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" during a shot involving floating rose petals. It was the only thing that produced enough air to properly make the petals float, but it made them move so fast that the singers needed to move at double speed and then play back the final shot at half speed.

[DasGewkmiXX]

Actually unbelievable. Was hard to even see which one was which in the end. Fantastic!

[weredoghaddock]

The editing in this video is so good that I need a behind-the-scenes for the behind-the-scenes

[theteddychannel]

I really like people like you. Most youtubers would throw a light behind a model and put in the title "WE MADE BATMAN IN 24 HOURS!!1!?". The effort you put in to actually make a correct-scale fire, the water details, the haze which improves the scene's color, the extra smoke behind the fire. All of these little details add diminishing returns to the final picture, and most people would probably not care/notice. But in my eyes it's that last 10% that really separates "budget batman" from "Batman". Another great video from you!

[acetrexofficial]

Now I can understand why Nolan is like "F it, let's just crash the plane in rl"

[HillierSmith]

This is one of the best videos on YouTube of 2024.

[TheOneTrueClovehitch]

Send this to some Hollywood people. The end result, the teamwork and dedication for something that just started as an idea you weren’t even sure how to pull off is outstanding.

[ivansleepy]

He casually created a short film on recreating a movie scene. Look at that cinematography, listen to that soundtrack and dialogue... This. Is. Cinema.
Everyone who worked not just the scene, but also the video has done an impeccable job!

[ekimrt]

The miniature was great, but the real impressive part is your detail to writing, editing, and direction of the process. This is professional level, quality work. You have a new subscriber.

[DotCoconut]

The best part of the video is how you edited the 3 different challenges together so the climax was all at the same time.

[Morristigue]

This really demonstrated how far the tech has come to be able to still pull off old school tricks with new school hardware. This was really fun to watch

[Sleezy.Design]

It's one thing to recreate a shot of high budget movies at home without budget. But It's on a whole other level to also film yourself in the process from start to finish, make the BTS look cinematic and keeping it interesting. Great work as always! Can't wait for your first full length movie 🎥

[Deviant_V]

ohh my god one of the best 12:00 i have spent in last few years daymnnnn man this video was so captivating i was completely lost amazing work man totally loved the video

[Arnas]

William's Neighbours be like: Martha he has lit the fire in is parking space dressed up as BATMAN ! Another average Monday in William's neighborhood.

[tharundhanabal]

I am not going to lie, even with the video indicating which was the final product, I couldn't see the difference. Your videos are just a pure masterclass on affordable cinematography, which I love. Keep making amazing videos!

[CreativeMediaParkersburg]

As a filmmaker myself I couldn’t tell the difference between yours and theirs. I watched it like 5 times and still couldn’t tell. Great job!