archived-videos HELICOPTER SHOOT: SUCCESS!

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Helicopter shoot was AMAZINGLY FUN! Everything cooperated except the sunrise, but the cloudy morning skies actually helped us maintain even light for the rest of the morning's shots. Check out the teaser:

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Great stuff :)! Some good shooting there! Did you have any device to steady the camera, was it purely arm/shoulder mounted?


I want to do a shot like-who feels like renting a helicopter :D

Thanks for sharing :)
 
Tina: it was handheld. DP rigged up a strap to wrap around his back and tie to the camera for safety reasons (no doors on the chopper) and said he used it to help stabilize. All in all some pretty steady shots for it being everyone's first time. I'm in the back of the car, texting instructions up to him in the chopper ("One more pass", "we'll be in the middle lane", etc.)
 
I would have liked it a bit closer on the car the whole time but I am impressed with the how steady it is. Was the chopper expensive to rent and did you get to fly it at all even just for a few sec?
 
Buck:

When cut into the film, it'll probably go more like that...starting on the car, pulling out to see the landscape. For the teaser I thought this pass was better. We got the chopper for about an hour, did four passes on the bridge and other general landscape shots. Pilot rendered services pro bono...we gave him free tickets to the premiere of The Tank and he said he'd do it for credit. I didn't even get to ride...it was only a two-seater, so I'm in the back of the caddy and my DP is in the chopper. He didn't get to take the controls, but he did get dropped off in a vacant lot in the hood to the surprise of the bums and other early-morning street folks! One dude with a cell-phone camera leaned over to me and said "I wonder why he's landing in here?" I answered "I have no idea." Then I yelled to my DP "GET IN THE CAR AND COUCH THE CAMERA!" just as the cops rolled by.
 
^^^^^^lol. sounds like a fun day that you'll remember for a while :)

I liked the little teaser. With that music it was really reminding me of like Niel Simon in the 70's. A la The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Which is totally a compliment :)
 
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