"Bird" (Bird)
08/29/2013 at 17:43 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Bird" (Bird)
08/29/2013 at 17:43 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 7
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Thought I'd share how we do it.
This is what we call a standing set. You could have anything as a standing set, common ones you'll find are things like courtrooms or jails. Places that are difficult to shoot basically. The place we're at today specializes in planes. We're shooting a modern interior, but if you wanted vintage they can swap out the interior for that as well.
Sorry for the poor quality pics, I didn't bring my good camera today, and we hadn't lit the set yet so it was pretty dark.
This set-up will allow us to shoot exterior to interior, as it has the proper outer skin and windows. It's also obviously open in the front to be able to shoot down the length of the plane.
Looks pretty real from this angle right?
We're not using this section today, but it's a full interior cockpit to tail. It also has what we call flyaway walls. Sections of the walls and ceiling can be removed individually to give you the option to shoot from whatever angle you could imagine.
So that's it. Now you know how to film plane interiors.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Bird
08/29/2013 at 17:47 |
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I have a friend who is in charge of video production for a smaller airline and talking to him makes me realize how impossible it is to get any good in air footage. That FAA doesn't mess around.
Sparf
> Bird
08/29/2013 at 17:50 |
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Cool stuff! Where you you work? I don't seem to recall seeing you post about anything like this before.
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Bird
> Sparf
08/29/2013 at 18:00 |
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I'm freelance. I work in the Production Department on TV commercials. So no real employer...I'll work for whoever waives money in front of me...
I've done a couple posts about camera cars before too. Here's some from a recent Toyota shoot:
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Bird
> HammerheadFistpunch
08/29/2013 at 18:01 |
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No they don't...neither does the TSA. We spent the morning shooting at the airport. That wasn't fun.
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Sparf
> Bird
08/29/2013 at 18:05 |
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Ah, cool! Must be nice to do different things all the time instead of doing the same thing all the time.
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Bird
> Sparf
08/29/2013 at 18:06 |
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That's the number 1 reason I like it. I couldn't handle a normal job...
RMudkips
> Bird
08/29/2013 at 18:14 |
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That's pretty awesome! I'm assuming you can't give specific details on what you're shooting.
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Bird
> RMudkips
08/29/2013 at 18:21 |
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I can't...but it's nothing exciting or special.
I do get to do cool jobs occasionally, the coolest I've done for a long time would be running footage of the Porsche Panamera, before photos of the car were released! It was crazy, we had security from Germany with the cars and they were always covered. We did triple digit runs on the Richmond bridge in San Francisco, and they wouldn't let us completely close it, but the CHP did allow us to perform rolling blocks long enough to prevent other motorists from seeing the car. I was on the job for a month, and we shot everywhere from LA, to San Fran, to Tahoe.
lighttech
> Bird
08/29/2013 at 18:42 |
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i remember when i worked the film— turbulence http://www.imdb.com/title/tt012039… we had a full airplane set on a 360 rotating gimbals and the whole thing had its own multi way "tilt" and "thrust"
just crazy to see a whole set that big spinning and jumping up and down at the same time
took up the whole stage in Culver and the thing weighed so much the base was concrete foundation under the stage that was left over from the movie " red October" and its sub command room shots
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Bird
> lighttech
08/29/2013 at 18:45 |
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Nice! I rarely see a build like that being in the commercial world. I can only imagine how crazy seeing that much mass moving around must be.
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lighttech
> Bird
08/29/2013 at 23:02 |
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what I remember most was a day I was not on set but my buddy was he was the lot/set medic
ohh boy did he have a busy day if memory servers 2 stuntmen got messed up in the same day one broken leg via putting his leg through a window while the rig spun and one who got his giblets rolled ( aka hard gut shot/hit) and a shoulder hurt later the same day
but when your on lot and you can get on a EFX stage its fun just to watch —just so you know most of the time they really don't care who is there as long as you respect the regular rules and we are not doing anything crazy like pryro or fast moving stuff
—but good god the biz in LA slowed to a crawl as of late
Frank Grimes
> Bird
08/30/2013 at 01:07 |
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I would get a photo of myself staring into the plane through one of the windows. as if I am some crazy person holding onto the wing mid flight. It would make a nice facebook profile photo.
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Bird
> Frank Grimes
08/30/2013 at 01:16 |
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We wrapped already! That's a brilliant idea.
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Frank Grimes
> Bird
08/30/2013 at 01:18 |
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YES! I thought I had seen all Robin Williams movies what is that from?
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Bird
> Frank Grimes
08/30/2013 at 01:22 |
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That's William Shatner! Twilight Zone 'Nightmare at 20,000ft' Oct 11, 1963
One of the best Twilight Zone episodes of all time.
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Frank Grimes
> Bird
08/30/2013 at 01:23 |
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I was talking about the guy stuck on the wing trying to get help.
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Bird
> Frank Grimes
08/30/2013 at 01:24 |
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Oh, I blame the internet then.
f86sabre
> Bird
08/30/2013 at 09:57 |
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We had to jump through all kinds of hoops to make this work:
Ellen DeGeneres filmed an episode of her show on one of our flights. We had to put in for STCs for the mods to the plane to make it work (pulling seat rows, wiring provisions and other stuff). I think we had to do some testing to verify no interference from all the production gear as well.