Moving Red

[CVB]

OK OK.. duh.. my bad on the math. I suffer from a little know ailment called advanced math syndrome. Give me a differential equation and I can bust it out but simple things like volumes of a sphere and I choke. Regardless its a lot of balloons.

 

[Sam Druckerman]

Okay very funny! By Balloon I actually meant one of these. Which would be good for outdoor shooting as long as its teathered to your waist with a security cable.

Nice, I was thinking weather balloon.

Ace, you have any info or a link for that one?

 

[Adrian T.]

By Balloon I actually meant one of these.

Ok, let's see what diameter we'd need for a RED ONE:
cubic root of (10,000,000 cm^3 / 3.14159 * 3/4) = 133.65 cm
So you'd need a balloon with a diameter of 2.67 meters! :nerd:

 

[Jared VanLeuven]

The one time I saw the BBC use a balloon for a wild life shot in the African desert (no clouds there then) they managed to run the whole camera rig (top of the line HD) which was suspended underneath the ballon, straight into the upper branches of a rather large and some might say, 'unforgiving' tree. I distinctly heard the camera operator say "We're going to run into that F***ING tree you cretin" to the guy 'steering' the balloon.

They had almost that exact scenario on one of the "behind-the-scenes" vignettes on one of the Planet Earth episodes. We were cringing.

 

[Adrian T.]

...and if you want to raise together with your beloved RED ONE you'd need a balloon with a diameter of 5.5 meters! :nerd:

 

[Ace]

Nice, I was thinking weather balloon.

Ace, you have any info or a link for that one?

Its actually just a stock standard mini weather balloon I found on google images.

Im thinking it would be sufficient to keep a RED suspended just enough so that an operator could use it as a 3 dimensional floating dolly