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my name is Josh Gilman and I'm the producer of CBS News 48 Hours Father and Son water was an important visual
element in telling this story okay ready do this thing so what we decided to do was use a very
high-speed video camera to create images of water dripping from a faucet pouring
from a faucet and we got really creative with it using our camera came out in Salt
Lake City we went to Home Depot and we bought a plastic utility sink which would double as a bathtub we cut it in
half we then glued a clear loose side panel onto the front of it and then we filled it with water and we started
taking various shots of just about anything we could do with that bathtub starting with single
drops okay ready go and shooting them hitting the water from the side we also did water pouring out of a faucet we got
underneath the bathtub we moved the bathtub into an aquarium put it up on uh saw horses and then mov the camera
underneath it so we could shoot the drops actually hitting the glass pane as if you were under the
faucet of course we shot it from above and we shot it from just about every angle we could think
of and what we ended up with was just a really really interesting group of images that really helped tell this
story in a unique way

In "48 Hours"' "Father and Son," a Utah mother is found dead in her bathtub. Because water plays a significant part in this story, producers used a Photron high-speed video camera to capture unique shots of running and dripping water, which were then used as creative graphic elements in the show. For more on the case, watch "Father and Son: The Verdict" Saturday, May 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Brief Summary

Josh Gilman discusses creative water visuals for CBS News 48 Hours.

Key points

Creative Filming Techniques. Producer Josh Gilman shares how they used high-speed video to capture unique water visuals.

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Creative Filming TechniquesProducer Josh Gilman shares how they used high-speed video to capture unique water visuals.“We got really creative with our camera.”0:17May 8, 2015

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We got really creative with our camera.

Josh Gilman discussing the innovative filming techniques.

0:17WatchMay 8, 2015

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