Dollygrippery: New Video

Saturday, January 26, 2008

New Video

The "making of" video of the ABN/AMRO commercial is up courtesy of Onno at Solid Grip Systems. Check it out.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: here is a link to picture and drawing

http://www.solidgripsystems.eu/pendule; 3:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Onno- how long did you have to design and then to build the rig?; 6:53 AM
Anonymous said...: From the initial idea of the spot until first shooting was 6 weeks.
Most of the time spend was thinking on the design and its options and disabilities. The actually design-drwaings lasted less then a day. Manufacturing some special parts and building the rig was 3 days work, 1 person.
Manteling and dismanteling the rig on the locations took us a bit over the hour. Most of time spend was lining up the camera in all its axes.. (having done one ax always seems to change the other 3...-); 8:33 AM

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