Crazy steadicam

[Andreas Reischl]

It beats the hell out of me, how did he steer the segway for that length of time and that speed, at the same time as holiding the camera, amazing work. !

I am pretty sure he used one of these: Handsfree Transporter

Looking somewhat like this:

(one of my early mentors)

 

[Carl-August Savgård]

If you want do see the shot... fast forward until 21.05 and there it is. Crazy. Available until 12 of June.

http://svtplay.se/v/1556662/melodif...42,1,f,102944/pl,v,,1557987/sb,p102944,1,f,-1

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

We own HandsFree transporter , and trust me this shoot is crazy ,
because it is very difficult and crazy to jump out from handsfree
with no stop . Main secret in HandsFree is that you can not step out
from Handsfree back , you need to always step out forward.
It is easy when you stop and then step out , but this one is crazy shoot.
Now i am planing to ask my Steadycam operator to do something same .

 

[jonnycom]

Fantastic shot! It's hard getting out of the handsfree that fast, I wonder if his was modified for that....

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

Standard Handsfree can do it sow you do not need to modified it. But not every steadycam operators can do it .
Also as i understand it was special shoot that Petr Elfimov order for Eurovision . In his music video in some shoots looks like they are using same system .

 

[Cail Young]

I too would love to see just how he jumped off the Segway and onto the stage without a major jump in the video.

Sort of the point of the Steadicam arm, don't you think?

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

I think he means see the jump onto the stage clearly on the YouTube video. The view is obscured when he makes the switch and it's hard to see. The camera is also a bit "jumpy" right before the switch.

 

[Petr Dvorak]

He stops just exactly before long ramp to stage and some dude is catching Segway, maybe even he helps him stabilze a bit during jump off.

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

No he did not stop handsfree , because to stop handsfree on this speed you need time .
You need to bring your body back . Dude just cashing handsfree after operator is jumped out , he did not helps him .

 

[Peter Mosiman]

seriously crazy. i am in love. Probably one of my favorite shots ever, especially for a live performance!

 

[HBrennan]

Mental. The op is a true ninja. The dismount to stage is nuts... and LIVE... double nuts...

such a great shot for such a hilariously crappy performance...

 

[Patrick Scheller]

If you shut off the crappy music then it is pure pleasure to watch indeed. :rofl:

 

[anonymuse]

this was linked in another thread which was locked. i assume because it was a dupe of this discussion. anyway this link has a 2nd behind the scenes video.

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/freshdv/story/ridiculous_steadicam_move/

 

[Tanner Stauss]

Risking even minor injury for such awful music is ridiculous!

LOL, exactly. It is a great shot though. I don't really like the zooms he incorporated though, he did a good job with them, but maybe better without.

 

[jonnycom]

Very cool shot. He had to do the zooms to avoid his shadow. This shot makes me wonder and wish for a dummy red camera with a little consumer camera built in that you could use to practice crazy shots with..... Does something like that exist?

 

[Charles Papert]

We generally use a weight cage that is simply two steel plates with posts between and a consumer camera or surveillance camera inside, but there are more elaborate versions such as this.