International tailored second-unit community service

[Christoffer Glans]

I was thinking that because this community is filled with people from all over the world who sometimes need second unit shots or plates for productions, wouldn't it be nice if we could all have a kind of community bridge for this? What I mean is; instead of paying for a crew or an operator to travel to some distant country just to shoot some enviroments, plates for VFX or setups that doesn't require anyone from the main unit, why can't we through this community ask eachother for it. I'm thinking paid jobs, but for a fraction of what a traveling team would cost.

The upside of this is that instead of it being a stock library we could instead give eachother assignments to make tailored shots for our productions. Like, -"you need a tracking shot of a Swedish location with a red ballon stuck in a tree?". How many man-hours would it take to get that shot, cost of traveling to Sweden with gear and set it up? Or search countless of stock libraries for just this thing?

Instead, someone like myself could be contacted here and be hired for a fraction of the normal cost and have the shot delivered maybe even the next day. If we made a list of where people are stationed, it would be easy for someone to ask like: "oh, I need a shot from Brooklyn Bridge down onto a boat in the water". If someone lives in Brooklyn, that would be an easy thing to do in an hour.

Does this sound like an interesting proposal?

 

[alejo taube]

I like your idea a lot. Count on me for whatever you'll need from the south of America

 

[Irene Valle Luna]

+1 really good idea!

 

[Jamon Lewis]

+1 to this plus a data base of crew in a particular country/town/region would be great too. I'm looking for this (the crew part) as I will be in Italy in 3 weeks and would love to know what crew there is from this community there out there.

 

[Björn Benckert]

This project died before it was flying due to some client considerations. But The producer I worked with down in Amsterdam was really into it and told me he was really stoked on the respons.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...looking-for-redshooters-world-wide&highlight=


I fear the day when every camera has a little microphone and a web caster built in.. Then who is going to pay for all my recreational traveling As it is now I travel so much so if I got time of I rater be at home. But if producers just could give me a video feed from the camera I think they would prefer I did my work from home, I dont only think thats a good thing

 

[Matthew Quinn]

chris yes do it, would be a great way for camera operators to make some scratch when work is slow