And be carefully also with the wet and slippery ground. It can be one of the worse nightmares, to fall in a swimming pool with the gear on. Try to use it one time before fly to be sure that it rules ok. Take care, of course, and check the security strap of your vest. I only want give you and small advice ever you work with steadicam near a swimming pool. I wonder if this might have already been done. Via a ramp or steps, the operator can step down into it, below water level, shoot through the glass, yet remain completely dry. The only solution I was able to figure out would be to construct a large, watertight, plexiglass container or "mobile hallway" if you will. This is sounding like a good example of where the Steadicam is just not the tool for the job.Ĭoincidentally, I was recently thinking of a way to actually take a Steadicam shot from above ground to below water level. Wearing breathing gear might make it better, but there is still a lot that can go wrong. Personally, entering any water with gear strapped to me would simply not be an option.
Even in the shallow end, one slip of your footing and you're under water wearing some heavy gear that was not made for swimming. Wheelchair and all.īe very careful not to underestimate how LITTLE water it takes to drown. Shooting from the hip and rolling into the pool. You'll probably end up heaving that housing onto your lap on your wheelchair. You don't even need air in the shallow end. Maybe even take a small Pony for air or have someone bring me air once in the water and help me loose the suspender. I would seriously consider jumping in the water with a cheap version of the klassen suspender on. release it and throw yourself in with the camera.
Make this "quick release" and just as you get over the waters edge. I would recommend if possible removing the ballast from the housing and making up for it with weight from your antlers and counterbalance.Īlternatively, make a bungee rig that hangs as far forwards from your wheel chair as possible.
Have some grips help you into the water from the wheelchair. Sit in a wheelchair, put the superstructure on your shoulder, frame off the underwater monitor. A long 3ft piece of metal coming off the back of it to rest on your shoulder with as MUCH counterbalance weight as you can put on the end of. Underwater housing with home made antlers going off on either side (as far back as possible on the housing).
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The lens is going to be on the wider end (around a 20mm).Īny thoughts on how to make the impossible possible would be greatly appreciated. The camera is an arri 35-3c with a 200' mag. The underwater rig weighs around 22lbs (already weighted for underwater use) and can be mounted to from the top or bottom. But.how in the world can a camera be smoothly removed from a steadicam in low mode mid shot and without having the rig swing dangerously? I'm fairly sure this won't work on a steadicam but steadicam would be perfect for this shot, so i thought I'd ask if anyone can think of a way the shot could be done.Īs i imagine, it the camera would have to be in the underwater housing the entire time, on the rig in low mode and with some way to release the camera to be handed off to the underwater camera op, using the transition of the camera moving underwater to hide some of the jerkiness of the hand off. The director really wants this to be done as a oner and wants to be able to follow the swimmer smoothly the whole distance (so this negates the use of a crane). The concept is to follow a swimmer all the way from the change room to underwater in one shot. I'm an AFI cinematography student trying to shoot a super low budget spec commercial.
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