Some Nasty Car Rigs
A while back we had an amazing post about building a DIY camera car rig to take incredible images of cars. This is a common method for car photographers to get in camera smoothness.
Not a long while ago BMW created a series of promotional short films called "The hire" it's all about Clive Owen driving some fancy cars in impossible situations with impossible passengers. A real treat if you like this kind of movies.
Now the cool thing is that BMW has a BTS film where you can understand some of the howthehelldidtheyshootthis scenes and sequences. Movie, pointers and some DIY after the jump.
I know you enjoyed the entire film, however, to get some focus on the rig shots go to 0:17, 0:54, 1:28, 3:09 and 4:52.
Now, this is a multi $$$ production what can you do @home? Here are some ideas:
For small compact, P&S and iPhones, try this DIY. It practically allows you to mount your camera to almost anything.
For some rugged car mounting rigs I already mentioned the rig based on the Super Clamps, Suction Cups and Magic Arm.
And now I just saw this nice quickie from Curious Drake that uses your ordinary 7$ suction cup.
Just make sure you are really (REALLY) anchored well before you hit the road.
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excellent shots
thanks for sharing...very cool tips as well. It is amazing now that they are using some basic phot tactics in million dollar commercials. The times are a changin'.
Thanks
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excellent movies!!
thansk for this beyond the scene link... but the movie taht matters there is "star", with Clive Owen and Madonna - that's where you"ll see rigs at use :D
re: star
I love the one with Madonna.
Aside the great car sequence it is nice to see her self humor
*Warning!*
I like to point out that with the DIY car rig from this site, please do NOT drive fast, corner fast, [insert motion] fast with these attached to the vehicle. They are not designed to handle the stress like those in BMW films. They only give you the ability to make your car [i]look[/i] fast.
The last thing you want is to see your entire rig fly off the bonnet of your car into someone's face.
Awesome!
Great tips! That was a help. Now I believe there were so many tactics making photos incredible.
thanks for the share :)
thanks for the share :)
the part with madonna cracked
the part with madonna cracked me up thanks for sharing that
My dad worked for BMW at the
My dad worked for BMW at the time, so we had a copy of these on DVD.
My favorite was the one where James Brown made the deal with the devil, and then at the end the devil is freaked out by Marilyn Manson.
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