Point of View Camera

[Andrew Rieger]

I am trying to design some type of rig that allows a Scarlet 2/3 with a 6mm miniprime to achieve the shot a a person's point of view, as if the camera had replaced their eyes. This has proved very difficult to do in the past but my be much easier with the compact Scarlet system. Any ideas. Thus far, I have played around with the idea of a mirror mounted at a 45 degree angle on the face with the camera mounted on the head pointing down but with a wide lens, I fear the camera would show up in the shot (many 3d mirror rigs use longer lenses and I hear there are some problems with wide angles). Another idea is the mount the Scarlet upside down on the forehead. The nike short Take It To the Next Level used an SI2K mounted on the top of the head but the view looked a little funky. I'm stumped about how to pull this off.

Going for something like this: http://vimeo.com/6540668 but with a wider field of view.

 

[Mitch Gross]

For the Nike spot they originally tried mounting the camera on top of the operator's head but then people's perspective was off. So they ended up rigging it just in front of his face so the lens was level with his eyes. The ARRI D-21 was used for some background plates that were composited into empty stadiums and the Phantom HD was used for the one slow motion shot.

The Scarlett is going to be approximately the same size as the SI-mini head, so I doubt you could get much closer.

 

[Andrew Rieger]

I don't want the camera to block the view of the actor so I was thinking about rigging the camera upside down coming off the forehead at a slight angle downward (a couple of degrees) so the lens is pretty close to the eyes. This way, the camera will avoid the nose getting it closer to the head. I want to rig a bomb evf in one eye so the actor can frame his shot and ensure that things like hands and legs are in the frame. I wish the Scarlet was just a little thinner to get the sensor as close to the eyes as possible.

 

[Andrew Rieger]

wait what?