Yeah, he really knows how to keep the cost low. I remember the scene when Hatchet ( one of the dreads) die in the highway is actually a scene from M. Bay’s old movie🤔
@@namoskwokhe didn’t do it due to costs, he did it because a woman got hit by one of the cables used to lift the cars and shooting that scene couldn’t proceed any longer. With the VFX department requesting the plate to add their CGI and shooting date which wasn’t too far away from release date, he came up with this solution.
This will sound controversial. But I’m glad Michael Bay directed and produced this one. Otherwise we would probably have some lame ass cgi fireball loop instead of real explosions 💥
that's what i like about bay in this case, he used a lot of real stuff from real life, and gave the direction for all the transformers to blend in with the realism of all the cities where they fight, and you know it's usually done the other way around in movies with lots of cgi, where the characters have to blend in with the cgi scene and not a real environment.
@@04liverydesign7but nope. People cry about that. Like why are you mad for Doing real life shit? Most directors wouldn’t. People want lame ass cgi for transformers. Transformers is better with real action editing effects
@@LeeArmstrong47 Exactly, which is why I disliked the cg in ROTB, everything felt CG... Even though some parts may have been practical like outside the museum some explosions take place, Bay's TF films had a realistic look to them
From a cinematography perspective, it’s really smart of them to record the explosions from the side with one car and then film them from the front with the crane mounted cam
My only gripe was that transformers look silly and are over designed. It ruined it for me. Maybe I should just get over it, but hard to get past it. It’s like someone directing transformers without understanding why they were cool
nah definitely not overdone. If you look at it from the cartoon and toy perspective which it originated with, then definitely. But we're talking about "Live Action", a robot that can transform, is sentient, has an arsenal of cool weapons is definitely gonna look something like that in reality. Full of details, parts, small machinery and large machinery. @@trashyraccoon2615
People cried too much about "explosions everywhere" and now you have the PS4 era game looking explosions in every movie. Current MCU looks like a joke compared to pre-Endgame era MCU in terms of VFX quality. And on top of that these VFX artists are being overworked and underpaid so what more can you expect other than severe quality drop? It's sad really.
You could give me every reason in the world for why this trilogy was bad, and I wouldn't listen to a single thing. The amount of joy I had watching these movies as a kid is unparalleled
You absolutely cannot tell they're the same shot in context, Michael Bay is a hell of a director and producer, the only shame is that his movies didn't have better scripts. This was a great use of their budget and clearance to use those streets for a limited time. Amazing production all around.
@@beetlejuice8147I disagree, I really like Bumblebee. It’s a new take on on a live action transformers reboot franchise, and I wanted to see what they would do with it. I was VERY disappointed in Rise of the Beasts.
@@projectx7453 The movie wasn’t just meh, it was overrated as hell in my opinion. The fact that people say Rise of the Beasts is superior to Bumblebee, is beyond me. Especially, despite failing from a narrative perspective; Bumblebee had better characters, and MUCH better writing.
This is what current movies are missing. Real practical effects which helps to enhance the cgi because blending cg models into real environment creates realistic outputs. People nowadays rather create a fake cg location and finish filming fast
An ENTIRE RUclips channel of just videos like this with the raw on set footage compared to the final film would be amazing and i would subscribe in a heartbeat.
My family was visiting Chicago at the same time they filmed this movie. I was 9 years old. We wanted to visit this pavilion but we learned it was closed for a movie shoot. Locals kept saying it was for Transformers. Later that day I remember seeing them filming the scene of the soldiers skydiving cause I was on the Sears Tower. Good times.
that is insane.. with the way it's shot and edited, the way it cuts between each shot, the way the motion of both the camera and the characters continues into each shot, and the way the action keeps your focus on the foreground, you'd never have realised the first, second, or even third time that it was the same shot, at different angles, at different degrees of zoom four times, unless you knew before hand and were looking out for it, that's _nuts_
Never even noticed they reused it 4 times. Thats... honestly kinda impressive imo just cuz... like i said. I didnt even notice and ive rewatched this scene like 30 times XD
@fonzi I agree with the robot thing. Sam, however, is an irritating screamer that really shouldn't come back. All he did was scream "OPTIMUS" or "BUMBLEBEE" or stutter for the whole three movies he was in.
@fonzi the reboot series is taking both G1 and Bayformers style and combines them I personally really like that, cause G1 is too simple but some of the Bayverse designs weren't looking like Transformers, especially in The Last Knight, so combining them works well And Bayverse is over due to The Last Knight not being good and not performing well enough and Sam was confirmed dead in TLK so... it's kinda sad cause I kinda grew up with the first 3 movies but I do really liked how the reboot is handling the characters so I'm looking forward to the Bumblebee sequel, that being Rise of the Beasts
ppl would probably have a 2 side of opinion about this but MICHAEL BAY AND THEIR CGI LITERALLY SET THE BAR WAAAAAAAAYYY TO HIGH FOR A TRANSFOFMER LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION I mean if you fix his storyline and character portrayals, Bay would definitely be considered as Transformer GOAT
CGI was meant to add to a movie, not be the whole movie, what made Transformers feel real was this: real elements and CGI that was in contact with the real elements.
See I know his movies can be very goofy but HELL I’m going to the cinema to watch cinematic movies and Michael Bay movies provide that excellently. What’s more, the fact that you’re literally there and recorded the actual filming pre-VFX is something a lot of us are envy of. Man those explosions are hella cool.
Transformers was never for me, and I wish I could have seen it as a kid as it would have likely been really awesome. But even though I don't care for Transformers, I still have to admit the special effects (CGI) far surpasses anything that has come out of Hollywood in the past 10 years, with the exception of DUNE.
As bad as the Bayformers films were, one thing I appreciate the most is the amount of work and effort Michael Bay and his crew put into the special effects
I never noticed until now that the same red BMW was flipped 3 different ways using one shot. 😮 To make each flip more convincing - they probably should have digitally recolored the car in post.
People hate Bay for overly relying on Sexy Women in his movies, and forgetting that most of the explosions in Transformers were real and not CGI like today's Marvels Movie where everything happens in a CGI Blue Screen Room.
The Optimus Prime from my childhood: a military leader that is honorable, compassionate and merciful. This movie: *"RRRRGAAAHHH!!!!! YOU DIE!!!!! NIYAH!!!!!" [RIPS ENEMY TO SHREDS WITH HIS BARE METALLIC HANDS]*
At first it sounds lazy that they reuses the same shot 4 times, but at the same time they made it look different in every final shot in the movie. I probably would too if I spent all that money setting up a scene that uses that many effects.
They didn't really make it look different. They just covered it up with explosions. It would matter to me how many shots are used because I feel taking corners like that, even if it isn't THAT noticeable, would still feel kinda hollow and fake inside. Putting in the time and effort to actually use more of the city and never reuse any shots would be a far more admirable feat.
Wdym? We had Marvel and DC films back then too. Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, the Fantastic Four, the Dark Knight, Superman Returns, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Avengers, etc.
I was going to SAIC at the time and remember them filmming this movie! It was so surreal to see the movie and watch all the places insaw every day get wrecked by giant robots 🤣
Michael Bay had the money and easy resources to not reuse the same shot four times. I can't do it because I both don't have the money, nor am I Michael Bay. Even with the Hollywood capabilities back then, not reusing the same shot so much shouldn't have been THAT hard with the money and resources they had.
@@william3100 bud you have to re-edit deal with the people currently living there not to mention your blocking up a road and blowing up cars also YOUR IN CHICAGO
@prussianbirdproductions56 I'm not saying re-edit. Just try to get more shots and then edit them. Like what they did to make the scene before reusing shots. They could probably have sanctioned a few more areas and maybe use some good CGI with some explosions along with the real ones. If they could get good shots and areas in production for other areas of Chicago in the rest of the film, they could use a few more. The film cost 195 million dollars, with 30 million on 3D filming. Michael Bay loves to go all out with expenses for special effects and explosions. Not to mention, much of that money was also spent on boring and terrible scenes at the beginning and middle that people would want to be cut out for more action. If that's too much, then maybe the Bayformers movies should've been animated. You would have more freedom and less of a reason to cheaply reuse shots that way. I just find reusing the same shots so many times to be so cheap and odd. We have so much money and talent for films now and back in the 2010s, and this is the best we can do?
I remember crapping on this movie for the sheer spectacle of it. But, being in 2023, I can respect the use of real world effects and set pieces Edit: Dam, it’s 2024x
Both Prime and Shockwave actually teleport back one last time at 0:50 I don't believe its the same shot (Because I _think_ all the explosions from this point on are just VFX, but let me know if I'm wrong) but they do in fact move back to that set of buildings from the raw footage. If you use the shot at 1:03 as reference: - When Prime rolls towads Shockwave at 0:43, they're in front of the building the raw recording was taken from, Shockwave being right below where Sentinel is standing - The moment Prime hits Shockwave at 0:50, they teleport back to the darker building that's all metal and glass windows, remaining there for the rest of the video
That was actually cool to learn they used the shot 4 times
Yeah, he really knows how to keep the cost low. I remember the scene when Hatchet ( one of the dreads) die in the highway is actually a scene from M. Bay’s old movie🤔
@@namoskwok wait what? which movie?😮
@@JAFNISYZN I remember it’s “The Island” (2005)
Not only that, can we talk about he had to plan FOUR camera angles in ONE TAKE for this to work?!
@@namoskwokhe didn’t do it due to costs, he did it because a woman got hit by one of the cables used to lift the cars and shooting that scene couldn’t proceed any longer. With the VFX department requesting the plate to add their CGI and shooting date which wasn’t too far away from release date, he came up with this solution.
This will sound controversial. But I’m glad Michael Bay directed and produced this one. Otherwise we would probably have some lame ass cgi fireball loop instead of real explosions 💥
that's what i like about bay in this case, he used a lot of real stuff from real life, and gave the direction for all the transformers to blend in with the realism of all the cities where they fight, and you know it's usually done the other way around in movies with lots of cgi, where the characters have to blend in with the cgi scene and not a real environment.
@@04liverydesign7bay w
@@04liverydesign7but nope. People cry about that. Like why are you mad for Doing real life shit? Most directors wouldn’t. People want lame ass cgi for transformers. Transformers is better with real action editing effects
Story is one thing but bay does not miss with action
@@LeeArmstrong47 Exactly, which is why I disliked the cg in ROTB, everything felt CG... Even though some parts may have been practical like outside the museum some explosions take place, Bay's TF films had a realistic look to them
Michael Bay saw an explosive for the first time as a young child, and he knew exactly what he was going to become when he became older
Became hilte-
What makes me a good demoman?
September 11
Chinese
he became Oppenheimer
From a cinematography perspective, it’s really smart of them to record the explosions from the side with one car and then film them from the front with the crane mounted cam
2 birds with 1 stone.
@@terpz473 actually. There's the helicopter shot in the first few secs
@@IndianGeek5589 4, there's one at the building in the beginning
0:28 and 0:34 look at the building. they're the same. optimus took a few steps forward and teleported backward few steps
ooo shit hahahaha completely broke the sequence for me now
@@emeraldviolet2001 yeah I feel like I can see the jump cut now
Nice catch
Probably due to the VFX Shot
Red car also
This has gotta be the best scene in transformers gives me goosebumps every darn time love this movie👍
I can't believe You got to see this live!
Say what you want about Micheal bay's movies, the man knows how to direct action sequences.
My only gripe was that transformers look silly and are over designed. It ruined it for me. Maybe I should just get over it, but hard to get past it. It’s like someone directing transformers without understanding why they were cool
nah definitely not overdone. If you look at it from the cartoon and toy perspective which it originated with, then definitely. But we're talking about "Live Action", a robot that can transform, is sentient, has an arsenal of cool weapons is definitely gonna look something like that in reality. Full of details, parts, small machinery and large machinery. @@trashyraccoon2615
You're going to get attacked by a mob of nerds soon for proving that autobots ain't real...
no one is that dumb
@@watchmangames2337 You'd be surprised
@@watchmangames2337 don’t count your chickens
@@watchmangames2337 lol
Man i ain't nerd, but the fuc? They ain't real all along? No way man i refuse it
After watching Rise of the Beasts, this was a palette cleanser. What happened to movies? I miss when blockbusters were BLOCKBUSTERS.
I feel the same way man
Literally blockbusters lol
People cried too much about "explosions everywhere" and now you have the PS4 era game looking explosions in every movie. Current MCU looks like a joke compared to pre-Endgame era MCU in terms of VFX quality. And on top of that these VFX artists are being overworked and underpaid so what more can you expect other than severe quality drop? It's sad really.
@@piccoloatburgerkingtrue
Diversity hires, lack of talent, laziness, budget cuts. It's many things really.
I never knew optimus actually passes by the same building twice in the movie.
I could never see due to all the explosions masking it.
I can't unsee it now 😂
You could give me every reason in the world for why this trilogy was bad, and I wouldn't listen to a single thing. The amount of joy I had watching these movies as a kid is unparalleled
The fact the explosions are not CGI is pretty cool.
You just don’t see this type of action in blockbusters anymore. So cool you got to see it firsthand. Thank god for Bayhem!
I wonder how do they gonna put the fighting Autobots during editing
Same
Just like the avengers endgame
@@nqz1594 What?
@@fezzy5591 watch the Avenger Endgame behind the scene
Rotoscoping
You absolutely cannot tell they're the same shot in context, Michael Bay is a hell of a director and producer, the only shame is that his movies didn't have better scripts. This was a great use of their budget and clearance to use those streets for a limited time. Amazing production all around.
Bayformers is the best
I miss the old Transformers films so much, the newest ones are so boring and cringe
Bro ong Michael Bay's tranformers were truly epic, the new Bumblebee is a shame to all t movies. a fucking love story🤦♂️
@@beetlejuice8147 it did have heart put into it, but it came out as another ET/Iron giant knock off
@@beetlejuice8147I disagree, I really like Bumblebee. It’s a new take on on a live action transformers reboot franchise, and I wanted to see what they would do with it.
I was VERY disappointed in Rise of the Beasts.
Bumblebee was great, but the Rise of the Beasts was meh.
@@projectx7453 The movie wasn’t just meh, it was overrated as hell in my opinion.
The fact that people say Rise of the Beasts is superior to Bumblebee, is beyond me. Especially, despite failing from a narrative perspective; Bumblebee had better characters, and MUCH better writing.
This is what current movies are missing. Real practical effects which helps to enhance the cgi because blending cg models into real environment creates realistic outputs. People nowadays rather create a fake cg location and finish filming fast
An ENTIRE RUclips channel of just videos like this with the raw on set footage compared to the final film would be amazing and i would subscribe in a heartbeat.
Autobots: “Wait, are we… the baddies?”
Optimus: “No, don’t worry. Now let’s go rip some faces off!”
for stopping humanity being inslaved of course
Awesome behind the scenes in backlot production.
My family was visiting Chicago at the same time they filmed this movie. I was 9 years old. We wanted to visit this pavilion but we learned it was closed for a movie shoot. Locals kept saying it was for Transformers. Later that day I remember seeing them filming the scene of the soldiers skydiving cause I was on the Sears Tower. Good times.
I would rather watch 150 minutes of raw footage than the finished film, which is visually incomprehensible and an absolute nightmare to watch.
Too much information on screen
No it isn't
When blockbusters were blockbusters
that is insane.. with the way it's shot and edited, the way it cuts between each shot, the way the motion of both the camera and the characters continues into each shot, and the way the action keeps your focus on the foreground, you'd never have realised the first, second, or even third time that it was the same shot, at different angles, at different degrees of zoom four times, unless you knew before hand and were looking out for it, that's _nuts_
People used to talk crap on these movies, (same here) but looking back, these movies were pretty cool. Giant Robots and awesome explosions.
back then when big sci-fi movie was still shot in public
The soundtrack in this one was the GOAT
Woah, that’s so cool. Reusing it to extend the sequence.
this Michael Bay guy is a genius
They don't make films like this anymore, the sheer scale and ambition of that final battle tops any CGI volume screen bullshit we get now
Thats called good professional editing. Getting the most out of footage you can while being seamless.
Gracias transformers ❤
honestly i can't imagine anyone else making this movie besides michael bay.
the VFX works is insane
Never even noticed they reused it 4 times. Thats... honestly kinda impressive imo just cuz... like i said. I didnt even notice and ive rewatched this scene like 30 times XD
These were the transformer movies that I grew up with, the good ones
IM IN CHICAGO RIGHT NOW AND I VISITED ALL THE AREAS WITHIN THE CITY WHERE ALL THIS STUFF HAPPENED. SO COOL.
This sucks that they didn’t make another transformer movie
rise of the beast (2023)
@fonzi Same
@fonzi I agree with the robot thing. Sam, however, is an irritating screamer that really shouldn't come back. All he did was scream "OPTIMUS" or "BUMBLEBEE" or stutter for the whole three movies he was in.
@fonzi the reboot series is taking both G1 and Bayformers style and combines them
I personally really like that, cause G1 is too simple but some of the Bayverse designs weren't looking like Transformers, especially in The Last Knight, so combining them works well
And Bayverse is over due to The Last Knight not being good and not performing well enough and Sam was confirmed dead in TLK so... it's kinda sad cause I kinda grew up with the first 3 movies but I do really liked how the reboot is handling the characters so I'm looking forward to the Bumblebee sequel, that being Rise of the Beasts
@@leest822 2022 man
those on set explosions were signature to the bay movies. Bee and Rise of beasts just don't feel the same without them
Michael bay is an artist.
ppl would probably have a 2 side of opinion about this but
MICHAEL BAY AND THEIR CGI LITERALLY SET THE BAR WAAAAAAAAYYY TO HIGH FOR A TRANSFOFMER LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION
I mean if you fix his storyline and character portrayals, Bay would definitely be considered as Transformer GOAT
Movie aside
Tyhe cinematography and bts is insane
Love the practical effect qnd gtotta tgive bat for the CGI
CGI was meant to add to a movie, not be the whole movie, what made Transformers feel real was this: real elements and CGI that was in contact with the real elements.
But CGI is still about the whole movie in these movies.
This is peak cinema!
Bayverse Transformers is the best! 👍🏻
When are you going to be making Transformers 3 available to the public?
See I know his movies can be very goofy but HELL I’m going to the cinema to watch cinematic movies and Michael Bay movies provide that excellently.
What’s more, the fact that you’re literally there and recorded the actual filming pre-VFX is something a lot of us are envy of. Man those explosions are hella cool.
According to random nerds online I’m not allowed to like this..
You can choose what you want to like. You better ignore those lame-assed nerds.
@@user-or4cj8bi3v ofc, I critique the critics before acknowledging their opinions
leave them alone bruh they're so cringey sometimes
@@AfterthymeGaming didn’t ask, bye
You can like it all you want.
It's still a really bad film
Bay and Snyder are the best at epic battle scenes.
Transformers was never for me, and I wish I could have seen it as a kid as it would have likely been really awesome.
But even though I don't care for Transformers, I still have to admit the special effects (CGI) far surpasses anything that has come out of Hollywood in the past 10 years, with the exception of DUNE.
All 5 bayformers films and Predacons Rising are my favorite
It still baffles me how seamless they integrated the CGI robots into the real explosions.
As bad as the Bayformers films were, one thing I appreciate the most is the amount of work and effort Michael Bay and his crew put into the special effects
I was a supervisor on that one, cool show. Thanks for the clip, pretty interesting stuff. Cheers
My favorite Transformers movie
That 1h non stop action at the end is just amazing
Honestly I go back and watch just that hour to remember the good days
00:00:04 All 14 Robot Mode Invisible no visual effect
Motion tracking is insane
Now that I look at the explosions with more detail, they add so much to the scene holy shit
wow, that red car was practical.
I can't stop thinking about the amount of roto work they'd have to do to comp' the 'bots 😩smoke , debry , fire , dust holy god I'd lose it 😂🤣😂
OPTIMUS RAGE SCENE 🔥
People during Michael Bay: All he can do is explosions!
People after Michael Bay: They don't even know how to do explosions!
Although i hated how dirty they did shockwave , i cant deny this one of the best scenes in the series to witness on the big screens
Michael Bay knew what he was doing
Megumin to Michael Bay: could this person be one of my people?
optimus prime = OP
wait! you're telling me that Michael Bay didn't create a 50 foot robotic autobot practically, and the whole thing was CGI!?!?!?
Pleases that simple part of my brain.
I love this behind the scene footage.
Greetings from Germany.
I never noticed until now that the same red BMW was flipped 3 different ways using one shot. 😮 To make each flip more convincing - they probably should have digitally recolored the car in post.
VFX supervisor: So how many explosions do you want in a short action sequence?
Michael Bay: *Yes*
Michael: we need more explosions!
Explosives guy: but it's impossible...
Michael: no, it's necessary
Reusing a single take to extend a scene is par for the course in film making.
i always loved the micheal bay take on transformers
Me too
💥
The practical explosions are what made the og transformers so *real* to me, i dont get the feel as.much woth the new ones
Wow! It's mind-blowing 😮
People hate Bay for overly relying on Sexy Women in his movies, and forgetting that most of the explosions in Transformers were real and not CGI like today's Marvels Movie where everything happens in a CGI Blue Screen Room.
Eh, it wouldn't really matter to me if the explosions were real or CGI. They both look equally convincing.
chef's kiss
thanks.. precious footage we rarely can get
I hope there will be Michael Bay II, III and so on
My nerdy ass thought this was going to be a video of an electrical transformer failure🤣
The Optimus Prime from my childhood: a military leader that is honorable, compassionate and merciful.
This movie: *"RRRRGAAAHHH!!!!! YOU DIE!!!!! NIYAH!!!!!" [RIPS ENEMY TO SHREDS WITH HIS BARE METALLIC HANDS]*
Go watch your Saturday morning cartoons😛
@abdullahking7611 at least the Saturday mourning cartoons treats the character right and is consistent with what they set up.
Awesome!
At first it sounds lazy that they reuses the same shot 4 times, but at the same time they made it look different in every final shot in the movie. I probably would too if I spent all that money setting up a scene that uses that many effects.
They didn't really make it look different. They just covered it up with explosions. It would matter to me how many shots are used because I feel taking corners like that, even if it isn't THAT noticeable, would still feel kinda hollow and fake inside. Putting in the time and effort to actually use more of the city and never reuse any shots would be a far more admirable feat.
Invisible robots fighting
Peak transformers
Remeber when we didnt have marvel and DC we had transformers and the VFX are still better than marvel and DC
Because Transformers movies came out every 3-2 years, Marvel has 3-4 per year. Also, early Marvel had stellar CGI
Wdym? We had Marvel and DC films back then too. Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, the Fantastic Four, the Dark Knight, Superman Returns, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Avengers, etc.
what u talking about lmfao
I don't mind the explosions, but I cannot stand that it's the SAME exact fireworks explosions. Now those explosions look painfully silly.
You're stupid? Why waste money like an idiot if you can reuse it?
You would be of no use in the film industry.
Guess what was recommended again, Shy? 😂
And again
And again
I never noticed until now that the red BMW was flipped 3 different ways in the movie using the same explosion shot. 😮
Must be fun being the pilot in the helicopter.
I was going to SAIC at the time and remember them filmming this movie! It was so surreal to see the movie and watch all the places insaw every day get wrecked by giant robots 🤣
BOOM! BAYHEM!
For you complaining about him using the same shot four times how about you create a whole scene and blow it up using expensive explosions and cars
Michael Bay had the money and easy resources to not reuse the same shot four times. I can't do it because I both don't have the money, nor am I Michael Bay.
Even with the Hollywood capabilities back then, not reusing the same shot so much shouldn't have been THAT hard with the money and resources they had.
@@william3100 bud you have to re-edit deal with the people currently living there not to mention your blocking up a road and blowing up cars also YOUR IN CHICAGO
@prussianbirdproductions56 I'm not saying re-edit. Just try to get more shots and then edit them. Like what they did to make the scene before reusing shots. They could probably have sanctioned a few more areas and maybe use some good CGI with some explosions along with the real ones. If they could get good shots and areas in production for other areas of Chicago in the rest of the film, they could use a few more.
The film cost 195 million dollars, with 30 million on 3D filming. Michael Bay loves to go all out with expenses for special effects and explosions. Not to mention, much of that money was also spent on boring and terrible scenes at the beginning and middle that people would want to be cut out for more action.
If that's too much, then maybe the Bayformers movies should've been animated. You would have more freedom and less of a reason to cheaply reuse shots that way. I just find reusing the same shots so many times to be so cheap and odd. We have so much money and talent for films now and back in the 2010s, and this is the best we can do?
I remember crapping on this movie for the sheer spectacle of it. But, being in 2023, I can respect the use of real world effects and set pieces
Edit: Dam, it’s 2024x
I didn't know the explosions were real
Both Prime and Shockwave actually teleport back one last time at 0:50
I don't believe its the same shot (Because I _think_ all the explosions from this point on are just VFX, but let me know if I'm wrong) but they do in fact move back to that set of buildings from the raw footage. If you use the shot at 1:03 as reference:
- When Prime rolls towads Shockwave at 0:43, they're in front of the building the raw recording was taken from, Shockwave being right below where Sentinel is standing
- The moment Prime hits Shockwave at 0:50, they teleport back to the darker building that's all metal and glass windows, remaining there for the rest of the video
I remember a substitute teacher telling us her experience as an extra on this movie lol