Premium Members Dan Coplan Posted November 5, 2006 Premium Members Report Share Posted November 5, 2006 The makohead looks super thanks for the info Dan, have you seen the instructional demo video with the cute blonde ? :rolleyes: That's why I ordered the Mako Head in the first place. Had nothing to do with production - I was just trying to attract chicks. Didn't work but you can't fault a guy for trying. At least I got some great boat to boat shots so it wasn't a total loss. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Brian W. Hall Posted November 8, 2006 Premium Members Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Hey everyone. thanks for the advice and stories about boat to boat shooting. I had a shoot this weekend and oh boy was it tough. I was shooting a main title sequence for the show I'm DP'ing. I was on a speed boat shooting our talent who were on a catamaran. There were 4 of them doing actions on the front of the boat. We were shooting just off St Thomas Virgin Islands. My first reaction was 'damn this is hard' after we found some somewhat calm waters I was able to get some pretty nice shots for a few seconds atleast. I had my AC gripping onto me with both hands to the back of my walter klassen. I had another AC holding up a huge piece of bounce board to block wind for me. It was an intense operation with everyone going through rigourous work. I found that if I grunted and breathed very loudly it seemed to smoothing up the shots.hehe. Or maybe I just wanted everyone else to know that its much harder than it looks and it already looked very hard. Anyway moving on to our next shots I got onto the catamaran for tighter action shots. See Picture. After we got a few wides of the talent on the boat it was time for a disc change. (we were shooting on Sony XDCAM). I pulled the disc out to give to my AC and as soon as I took it out the wind blew it out of my hand!!!!!!! It hit the side of the boat and into the water. I saw the blue disc float away as the catamaran continues on. It was tragic! All the boat to boat shots were now lost in the atlantic. I look over and our director has his head over the side of the boat. I dock my rig thinking I will miraculously see the disc floating next to the boat but after 10 seconds I realize its gone. Blank looks all around the boat. Everyone is in shock. I'm thinking to myself "oh no, we're going to have to re schedule the whole day". Seeing as though I'm the DP and steadicam I decide to let it go and I quickly get my rig back up and go to the depressed director and say "ok, that sucks but we still have time to reshoot, lets do it". So we re do our catamaran shots quickly and then we call back the speedboat. I get back on and 40 minutes later we got the shots back. Of course the director will always say "the first shots were better" but I think we got everything we needed just fine. Definetly a memorable day. One for the record books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Dan Coplan Posted November 8, 2006 Premium Members Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 I pulled the disc out to give to my AC and as soon as I took it out the wind blew it out of my hand!!!!!!! I guess that's another check in the "Why Film is Better Than Video" column. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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