Okay so it wasn’t the real Amazon rainforest but it’s the closest I have got so far! A huge structure with tropical plants, trees, animals and insects was built on top of the Westfield shopping centre in London as part of Sky HD’s rainforest week. The atmosphere in the rainforest […]
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For Discovery’s latest programme on how to build a Roman Villa Polecam was able to give the viewer a unique perspective of the Roman remains. The Polecam can relocate in minutes and sometimes seconds due to its lightweight and fuss-free design and this was essential on this shoot where we […]
Over and over again I am told how Polecam adds something special to an otherwise ordinary shoot and this car launch for Ford was a fine example. A typical two camera shoot for a press day car launch with the addition of the Polecam meant that the on-screen shots of […]
The Ibiza Rocks Hotel was the venue for this MTV Dizzy Rascal shoot Polecam is an excellent choice of camera crane for music gigs, you can offer up a huge variety of shots from slow sweeps to fast spins as well as locked off shots and at the same time […]
Polecam was the essential choice for this Bennetts bike insurance commercial; shooting on HD with the Toshiba IK-HD1 mini-cam and recording back to compact flash cards on the Flash XDR. The polecam was working alongside the 5D Canon DSLR and was able to get some nice high angles and smooth […]
On this shoot the entire day was dedicated to the polecam so we were able to really push the polecam to its limits to see what worked best in 3D. Polecam has huge benefits in the field of 3D filming due to its lightweight pan and tilt head […]
For the 5th year running I have filmed the annual Street Dance weekend in London with the Polecam. The event is still shot on DVCAM so I had to use my Red-byte down-converter to down-convert the HD signal to component. Polecam’s pan and tilt head has 1000 degrees of horizontal […]
I have filmed a lot of stuff over the years with the polecam and this shoot certainly goes to the top of the list of craziness. A huge one day extravaganza filmed for Cadbury’s which included events such as crowd surf racing, mattress jousting, balloon pop belly flop and toilet […]
Polecam was the choice for the director’s recce on the new Jamie Oliver Sainsbury’s commercial. The shoot for real will be on 35mm film on a 40 foot long crane and the director wanted a lightweight crane that was quick to set up and transport and that could replicate the […]