....and the perils of steadycam!
Just returned from another couple of shoots in southern Spain.
We were lucky with the weather (contrary to the tourist brochures, it's not all sunshine on the Costa), but didn't really need it anyway, as both shoots were indoors. It's just more pleasant to have lunch with the crew on a terrace in bright sunshine!
I've done some of my footage productions in the past with a steadycam operator, and they turned out great. Thought I'd use one again this time - big mistake.
The productions we've worked together in the past were outdoors locations with ample space, where we could shoot fixed and stills while the steadycam crew got ready and then could easily alternate between setups or even shoot in parallel during the inevitable steadycam repeats.
This one was different, however: a rather cramped indoors situation. Therefore - no parallel shooting, but everything had to be done sequentially. In the end, this meant a lot of time lost to the repetitions of the steadycam shots. We gained some fabulous footage, but be warned - this takes loads of time!
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