Richard Gooderick
August 4th, 2009, 11:04 AM
Ocean Pearl on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/5915644)
This may be of interest to some DV Infoers.
I shot some footage of a boat on the water as a test and it didn't work out too bad so I made it up into a sequence.
A Sony A1 was used inside a sports housing mounted on a Fig Rig.
The big lesson learned is that it is very difficult to shoot using the image of the LCD display seen in the sport housing mirror - because it is a mirror image and everything is the opposite to what you expect eg pan left and it pans right, tilt left and it tilts right, tilt up and it tilts down.
The second is that the LCD is very difficult to see in bright sunlight. Not impossible, but difficult, especially whilst trying to cope with lesson one.
As a matter of fact many of these shots were taken standing up in a dinghy travelling at 6 or 7 knots which was captained by yours truly without any crew (not to be recommended on health and safety grounds). The standing up shots are noticeably smoother than the sitting down ones.
Despite all that much of the footage is usable.
In a rib with a driver I reckon you could get some very good boat footage with this rig.
This may be of interest to some DV Infoers.
I shot some footage of a boat on the water as a test and it didn't work out too bad so I made it up into a sequence.
A Sony A1 was used inside a sports housing mounted on a Fig Rig.
The big lesson learned is that it is very difficult to shoot using the image of the LCD display seen in the sport housing mirror - because it is a mirror image and everything is the opposite to what you expect eg pan left and it pans right, tilt left and it tilts right, tilt up and it tilts down.
The second is that the LCD is very difficult to see in bright sunlight. Not impossible, but difficult, especially whilst trying to cope with lesson one.
As a matter of fact many of these shots were taken standing up in a dinghy travelling at 6 or 7 knots which was captained by yours truly without any crew (not to be recommended on health and safety grounds). The standing up shots are noticeably smoother than the sitting down ones.
Despite all that much of the footage is usable.
In a rib with a driver I reckon you could get some very good boat footage with this rig.