I’m on a mission to capture the most cinematic visuals of wingsuit flight possible. There have been a few high-budget features that have included wingsuit action sequences, but in my opinion strapping a Red on to the cameraman’s head, setting the focus to infinity with a small aperture and a narrow shutter angle doesn’t do it.
The attributes I am looking for are depth of field (thus needing a very fast and accurate auto-focus), stabilization (a solid IBIS), resolution, and usability. In my opinion, finding the right combination of these will provide the best, most repeatable cinematic wingsuit footage.
Episode II — Undisclosed Camera Setup
Project Details
Client: The WLDRNSS
Role: Cinematographer / Editor
Category: Video Production
Mechanisms: Undisclosed Camera, Assortment of lenses, Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve
Breakdown
For the second episode of this series I got my hands on a highly anticipated new camera that I don’t want to disclose at the moment. I think this footage turned out so good that I don’t want to disclose my new secret weapon. If you have a project that would benefit from this quality of adventure sports footage, reach out and let’s talk.
Every con in this footage can be attributed to either user error (new camera system for me) or difficult lighting for setting manual exposure on the ground and then the clouds having changed by the time we got to altitude.