This is a box that comes in 4 sizes. Pancake which is 1” tall, ¼ apple box which is 2 inches high, half apple box which is 4 inches tall, then the full apple box that is 8” tall. These are the staple for a grip crew. Using them to build risers, slide under seats to boost people up, add to an actors coverage to give them extra height to make the over the shoulder coverage more cinematic. You can screw them together, they are made out of wood, so they float.
Budget-minded filmmaking forces you to solve your problems within limitations. However, given the importance of the visuals to engage the audience in the story, we needed creative control over every aspect of the film’s aesthetic.
How can I use the MōVI as a camera emotion to tell the story? The camera emotion thing is very important. I try to take every movie that I do, and attach some sort of specific camera emotion to each character.
Freefly has been instrumental in flipping the whole paradigm on how I shoot movies. It’s not about the trick shots, it’s more about figuring out how we can use this incredible device that Freefly has created, the MoVI, to shift the paradigm of how we make movies and how it change the dynamics within the movie making industry. Welcome to the future.
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