Shooting parkour commercial with Red.. Help needed..

[Kujtim Ereqi]

We have a new commercial which includes parkour movements. I never shot parkour. Any help would be appreciatted: direct advices, websites, tutorials, lighting, frame rates, editing techniques etc

Sorry if this thread is not in the right place..

Thanks in advance.

 

[Shawn Booth]

Try Google and youtube for videos out there. From there you can figure out what you need for your job.

Make sure your talent is good (talented/experienced), rested.
Try higher frames rates like 72/96 fps while shooting -
Wider lens selection most likely -
Steadicam for sure...
How many cameras can you afford to have on set?

 

[Kreisky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boQRRmdTvH4

its kind of nice......:-D

this is the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GpOroM0g80

 

[Ryan Velasquez]

I wish I had more help than links to show you.

Here's a super stylized version... lot of overcranking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB7MZqasUFQ

And then of course the famous coke commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYEWn4O-ZnE

 

[Matthew Chuang]

Check out a movie called 'District 13'.

It's a french film produced by Luc Besson

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/

also the opening scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIw3cv8Zls

 

[David Wyatt]

Don't know if anyone else has posted this one (couldn't be bothered to watch all the others):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAMAr8y-Vtw

This one was quite a successful BBC trailer with a French dude who's big in Parkour.

 

[Andrew clemson]

What exactly will you be shooting? I would have thought you'd be safest sticking to high frame rates , wide-ish lenses and as many angles as you can cover (just in case one of the runners falls off a building and you cant repeat a take).

Watch as much reference as you can. You can see parkour in a bunch of films nowadays, like Casino Royale, District 13, one of the bournes (i think its ultimatum) even the first matrix I guess. There was a cool doco i remember called jump london too.


Where are you shooting out of interest? I noticed a piece in the newspaper about parkour taking off over here.

 

[Andreas Fernbrant]

We have a new commercial which includes parkour movements. I never shot parkour. Any help would be appreciatted: direct advices, websites, tutorials, lighting, frame rates, editing techniques etc

Sorry if this thread is not in the right place..

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have a lot of experiance with parkour and free running.
Feel free to PM me!

Kind Regards
Andreas