About
With an ambitious script including animals, fire fighting aeroplanes and a limited budget compared to most car shoots, this was always going to be a challenging production.
Working closely with our horse trainer, Michelle Mazurkiewicz, the Art Director Will Boyes and Dee Terblanche from Animal Anti Cruelty, we designed a huge wooden box with a ramp and stairs buried deep into the earth and filled it with fabricated ‘mud’. In a wetsuit, Michelle would guide the horse down the ramp until it reached the stairs, then literally dive under the ‘mud’ whilst Director/DOP Mark Toia filmed the horse climbing out of the mud via the stairs. The stairs were designed steep enough to create the impression that the horse was struggling to exit. The 3D rope was added in post. We used a low flying fire fighting aeroplane to wash the mud off the moving Mahindra.
“The crew were solid” added Mark “We finished on time and to schedule every day. The Art Director put huge amounts of effort into the project and I was thankful he was with us. We had to knock off about 60 different shots a day: Thanks to The Shooting Gallery in Cape Town who line produced the job, and to Prashant from 100 Frames, Mumbai for producing the project."
Credits
Director/DOP; Marc Toia
Production House: 100 Frames
Line Production Company: The Shooting Gallery, Southern Africa
Locations: The Shooting Gallery
Technical Info
“We used one of the first Cineflex camera gyro gimbals able to take the Red Epic” said Director Mark Toia “We used the zoom lens that was used on the 2/3 inch Sony video camera. What blew me away was it covered 5kms! We could now get up to 2000mm from the air stabilised”
02/09/2015
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