Having grown up around that industry, it's more a case that all the good helicopter pilots aren't insane enough to do film work. It's dangerous enough just getting into the damned silly things.
I've shot a bit from a helicopter(courtesy of my father's company), but nothing as insane as that. -Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > Good stories. Shooting from a helicopter may well be more dangerous > if not as hard on the stomach as that C130 stint. I used to produce > commercials with a director named Jim Edwards. One of Jim's favorite > laments was "All the good helicopter pilots are dead." It was said > with the tongue only partially in the cheek as a lot of the Hollywood > fly boys did buy their lunch making movies. One of the first shoots I > did with Jim and a copter was at Stag's Leap winery in Napa Valley. > The driveway was lined with trees that were about forty feet tall, > with canopies about twenty feet off the ground. To get the shot Jim > wanted of a car moving down the driveway, the copter had to fly > right at the bottom of the canopies, and he had to get in real tight > to make it wide enough to show some environment and still make the > car big in frame. As he flew down the road, you could see twigs being > cut off the end of the branches by the blades. Another Jim Edwards > shoot was the Viper on top of a volcano in Hawaii. Again, Jim wanted > profile running shots over the uneven terrain. The copter had to cut > in between rock formations and fly just a few feet off the ground. > You can see some of that footage here: > http://stenquist.org/Paul/Ride.htm > Paul > On Mar 28, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Cotty wrote: > >> I love filming from helicopters but when they ask for a crew for >> the C130 I fade into the back ground..... >> >> -- >> >> >> Cheers, >> Cotty >> >> >> ___/\__ >> || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche >> ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com >> _____________________________ >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
