remember the Cologne hai karate welcome
to still untitled the Adam Savage
project I'm will I'm Adam and I'm norm I
have three sizes of Samaritans in front
of me it's a tiny Hellboy for that small
one yes I believe that's one I don't
know what scales they are that's
one-to-one scale though you know it
looks like it's two to one scale that's
it's I mean how big are Ron Perlman's
hands Ron Perlman well does he wear does
he wear prosthetic hands in those movies
no he doesn't wear percent of Kansas
hands just have makeup on he has a
bloody arm piece has the arm piece right
right I guess that is prosthetic but Ron
Perlman's only like 6 1 or 62 he's not a
giant
he seems larger than light no I met him
at Comic Con last year he's was either
for Pacific Graham I guess yeah and like
many actors he's got a giant head right
right I mean he's he's he fills a lot of
my entourage says you need the big head
yes Vince Vince head the head but it's
film actors have big heads and TV actors
have small heads right I don't know I
always thought it was one of the other
oh I didn't know that there was a I know
that yeah then at any rate yeah Ron
Perlman is not a giant and that's the
size I think his hand is not much bigger
than mine I don't think he makes that
gun look good he does man and this is
this is one of the ruins from the movie
it's hard rubber well this is an actual
film used prop that is a film museum
pistol there's not that many of those in
this in the I mean you have a handful of
film use things yes
no that's the only that's yet I'm not
man enough to hold this in the way
that's Leslie my son was my son was
challenging me just to hold it out for a
while it just just yeah maybe this one
will the next one down yeah tiny cricket
I want to find I want to find one that's
in between I want every size of
Samaritan there could be no I'm starting
to shake pretty good with 3d printing
they'll see what you don't know see is
that there's a somebody offs camera I'm
just taking my end just a little bit
let's bring it back oh you say you're a
joke tell us I said I do
so I participated in a Top Chef style
competition this weekend about my kids
school so quickfire or main challenge
was all of that alright so there was
like there was a quick fire where we had
20 minutes to make a salad with
ingredients that were right in front of
us then there was a pre-planned a mousse
bouche we had to deliver in 20 minutes
from ingredients that the chefs have
brought ok then there was a quiz and
then there was the main entree in which
the chef's had an hour to prepare a
cooked entree with chicken ooh
it was really fun last year we did it in
my house okay and it was it was crazy
where we did the omelet where we did the
other video we had 8 people cooking Wow
4 chefs and 4 sous chefs plus a sit-down
dinner for 25 people oh my in the house
and it worked but it was like boy it's a
big thing to do that in your own that's
the kind of thing that makes you a
little crazy beforehand
yes so this year we did it at the school
ok and I was not one of the chefs this
year I was one of the sous chefs and it
was really so much fun the chefs are all
teachers at the school the sous chefs
positions were auctioned off and then
taster positions were auctioned off so
people could sit there and score the the
meals and at the end of four different
rounds the scores were in the 800s and
the difference between the four teams
was only like one or two percent Wow it
was very close the food quality was
incredibly high and it's just I was we
were cooking from like 3 p.m. until
10:30 p.m. so this is a positive
experience I where we screaming each
other it's for a school so the trick is
to have the goal is to have fun and the
goal was totally achieved and you use
heated plates paper plate you know on
top chef temperature is the judges are
told to ignore temperature because the
food will never get to them at the right
heat right with all the camera coverage
and everything yeah that's that's brutal
like that that is such a key aspect of
eating that was a joke yeah oh there was
so there was a quiz that was there was a
quiz and one of the questions was what
and here's it's an interesting question
you might not know it I didn't what is
the oldest recipe what is the what is
what is the product that you can make
with the oldest recorded recipe in
history what is the cocoa food product
coming beer right
beer he's gonna tear the oldest years
1000 years of year huh right wait
Egypt's inside cook food though food in
the fire food and get out of court right
wait wait wait I'm giving away the joke
hold on earlier the question was the
aristocrats mr. Kratz yes earlier the
second question was what is the literal
translation of pasta Puttanesca oh that
I'm not gonna say that is a family
podcast prostitutes pasta yeah
prostitutes but I didn't know that right
I don't know what that means know that
what's that city it's a food for it's
like the common it's it's like the
commoners pasta yeah yeah so then the
question cuz the oldest recipe in
history and I said laughs yeah the
family it's good yeah the kids were
there I hope nope okay that's five baths
no I'm gonna think about the dinner of
the jokes that's funny I think so dude
well done
so back to the Samaritan I will tell you
I will tell you that um this is actually
this is screen-used and when I look at
it I think I've actually handled the
hero one Guillermo owns it and it's
machined out of aluminum by the guys at
Wetty workshop it's gotta weigh a ton to
it it's pretty close to this way okay it
might even be a tad lighter this is the
someone so this is the one you can throw
around and smack someone right smack
someone around but you can't drop it and
you won't dent a floor and you won't
break the gun so it's pretty great it's
still smasheroo and you never believed
this was rubber but I still would like
to machine one out of aluminum that is
uh that is a tough machine it's a lot of
ways it's not one be nice right it's
multiple pieces there's multiple pieces
this piece down here this is trigger
there's the mechanism there's that yeah
there's a whole bunch of stuff going on
on this what caliber bullet is the
disease it's like bigger than a 50
caliber and we can measure it I've got
some other bullets over there
it's it's it's a lot that's something
for the folks at home yes let me come in
for you
so we were gonna talk about cameras well
specifically quadrotor octa rotor flying
cameras let's say calm aerial jib
replacements oh look the AG quad rotors
we were playing quad rotors but we're
flying cod was it the fact this is
actually the field has exploded I mean I
thought one of the first parrot drones
oh yeah we have two of them and those
are those are fine they're fun they're
fine and they're fun you can fly it
indoors there you can't really do
anything with the video because it's
really shitty yes
that's that's a problem if they're good
for terrorizing the dog no they're
certainly good for terrorizing the dog
but we on Mythbusters are always seeking
to get the most production value we can
and we only have a three-person camera
crew Scott Sorenson are a camera
Willie nail our second camera and
high-speed operator and Duncan Clarke
our second camera and high-speed
operator and all three of these guys are
just super super dedicated they like eat
sleep and breathe cameras and it's a
really amazing team they get a lot
imaginate everything three people seems
like not a lot of people for an amount
of and not just for the amount but for
the the one-off nature of a lot of the
stuff that you guys are shooting the
fact that you get one chance to blow up
the cement truck right I mean and the
this the simple fact is the number of
times they get the shot when there was
only one chance to get it it's all of
them I assume that means pretty much I
can think I think twice we've missed key
high-speed shots it's amazing I hear 200
episodes yeah it's pretty pretty amazing
and Duncan his father is actually a
cameraman a camera is father's name but
his father is a IMAX camera man and has
been for many many years yeah that's
heavy duty
heavy heavy duty so Duncan's legacy and
Duncan's particular bailiwick is
quadrotors and then now he's actually
purchased a five foot diameter octo room
that has I think all told it's 17 pounds
when it's loaded with the camera but it
can handle a 5d Mark 3 yeah I think you
could
then put an fs700 on it if you if you
dared so sure lies it he actually flies
it first-person yeah he uses video and
transmitter yeah
and it's totally good enough for a
thousand feet did he buy something off
the shelf or did he did he put it
together himself he put it together
himself from multiple components so he
bought the gimbal rig for the camera
which is a stabilizing gaming rig which
yes so we guess all by way of talking
about the the dead zone yes the DJI
phantom so we have a mutual friend now
untested we reviewed we've been testing
quadrotors DJI is the Chinese company
that makes a consumer-friendly
quadrotor / drone it's called the
phantom they also make like the the
high-end multi rotor or the big ones
I think what they do is a company like
the main thing that they've done is
gimbal mounts for like news helicopters
though isn't that isn't it well because
you know that they're speaking of the
gimbal mounts this is something that
people might not be realizing is going
through some massive technological
overhauls right now - the most awesomest
effect which is picture a camera on a
platform with three axis each access
controlled by a stepper motor that knows
when that camera is upright and keeps it
up right no matter what so it's
effectively a Steadicam and you can buy
a rig for a GoPro
that's like $200 200 bucks for two axis
gimbal for a two axis gimbal and it's
like 300 bucks for a 3 axis gimbal but
they make these all the way up to
professional rigs there's a thing called
a movi m VI VI we thought it'd NAB days
ago well so that was a $15,000 unit now
there's a $5,000 unit yeah and really
within a year it's gonna be 1200 bucks
and then I'm doodle posted thing on
Instructables yeah you can literally
basically it almost eliminates the need
for a Steadicam because with this thing
you can run down the street up and down
and the up and down is the only thing
that will yeah well you'll see
everything else will remain perfectly
stable on a very very tight vibrational
metric I mean when duncan loads up his
octocopter you can't see any camera
shake at all right and that's that's one
with three axis stabilization translate
and vertical movement is still there
there's only a matter of time when you
get that stabilized yeah and so it's
gonna be steady even if you're walking
down a very slightly slight incline I'll
be on that one plane so when we are
testing this phantom which is the
consumer line it's a $1,300 quadrotor
and it has a 1080p camera that's
equivalent of a GoPro - we were
wondering you know what you use and what
when you evaluate production cameras for
Mythbusters what's important and for the
camera person to consider well so on
Mythbusters
because Mythbusters is broadcast in HD
we have a contractual requirement to
have a certain amount of footage be in
broadcast quality HD so that means 1080p
and yes but it rains it means it means
that everything we use falls into that
category except for the GoPros okay if
the GoPros are 1080p but they're not
quite broadcast quality so you you have
to we have to limit in the Edit some
times the number of GoPro shots we have
and I assume you guys probably have an
exception like you probably an unusual
contract because I bet most people
aren't allowed to use GoPros it's just
because I don't do I have no idea what
what is and frankly I might be getting
the actual terms wrong I just know that
discovery requires our production
company to deliver a certain percentage
of footage being in the fullest function
broadcast HD that's really funny because
movies have no such requirement if a
director wants to film a movie I saw
this movie the raid - over the weekend
yeah
fantastic movie but the director shot it
with red epics red Scarlets and then
also GoPros and you couldn't tell
interesting yeah well so what we've done
this season that we started filming in
January is we've replaced most of the
GoPros with black magics this pocket
Cinema Camera pocket Cinema Camera have
three or four of them in some really
bulletproof housings that are just
covered everywhere with quarter-twenty
and three eight sixteen tapped holes
they're fantastic cameras from broadcast
quality standpoint they're not great in
low-light and their audio is terrible
but they're beautiful plus they they
take our they take all our different
lenses yeah right so we have a lens
package that all works with those guys
they're our Micro Four Thirds camera
Mount Blackmagic had a cinema cam from
two years ago and this is the pocket
version thousand dollars and you can
shoot in pro res or raw basically so
it's basically three times the price of
the high-end GoPro 3 but in a real
camera with again back well the fact is
is that one of the things we're doing
this season that you'll start to see
next year is we're filming we're filming
some I want to say this in the broadest
way possible so it's not to giving
anything away but there's certain things
were doing in a more cinematic style and
the black magics with the real what do
you call it prime glass on it you know a
nice 85 1 2 who gives us that real
cinematic look and that's just that's
where the black magic exceeds almost any
other camera we could use right except
for you know DSLRs which frankly we have
used a few times on the show but it's a
real pain in the ass from a from an
editing chain standpoint yes the black
magics it's actually the easiest camera
for our editing change yeah because it
outputs it outputs editor ready for yeah
file formats so the Dukes Duncan
everyone on our team has a nickname so
our camera saw our cameraman Scott
Sorenson is Zaza
Duncan Clarke is Duke or Dukie I talk
about leave I know it's just because
it's it's dunk dunk Duke or Dookie
remember like I can't believe you let
Dookie be your nickname he's like yeah
it happens and then welcome say a lot
Willy nail who's we just call him Willy
because he's will he's like totally cool
he hates it when they call him a hipster
but he's novelty facial hair
he has novelty facial hair and there's
some cuts in the in the new season where
you'll actually see Willy operating and
if you do he often gives a little point
to the camera because it's pretty good
I'm always ya know I won't tell that
joke so black magics yeah they're
totally what Duncan flies on the
octocopter
okay oh he used to have a little plane
we lost that one in Utah in the in the
Monument Valley Oh in the in the in the
in the
yeah he was flying it down the river
that we were on yeah can you tell for
the duck boat yeah okay because you've
been doing this for 10 years and have
seen camera equipment that your guys
have shot with for a decade yeah see the
evolution of that for production yeah
and the change to HD were you you were
you started SD right we started SD
that's a question we started with well
we've always used as our a cameras the
Sony and shoulder cameras right now it's
the 700 mm-hmm and you know there's just
ways in which they're they're very
expensive cameras I mean the lenses
alone are between let's start it like 15
grand but you know when people say oh
yeah you could shoot a movie with this
thing the fact is is that if left to
their own devices even though these
cameras are heavy and expensive camera
man preferred them because they look
because the camera man can zoom and iris
and focus all as fast as this is the
camera is built for that it is are built
to be able to do all those things at
once as fast as humanly possible when we
go sometimes we'll get demos for cameras
from different vendors and they'll say
look we look at we have the smoothest
auto zoom you've ever seen it's like
they're never gonna use it this is
something that no one is ever gonna use
right because I've never seen a camera
man that doesn't just rank the ring
around you know because zooming is it
something you're interested in doing in
that go stop oh you want it is if
they're mashing it to make sure you've
got the shot in the 80s it was a fun
trick for directors to use and they
overuse it then that was yes yes oh and
also in the 50s when the first zoom lens
came out on home film cameras we used
these Sony's God what were those called
it was like you're obviously the first
three chip Sony oh not the canons no no
it wasn't the excellent Sony equivalent
of the XL why there's a Sonjia quote of
the x11 a three-chip Sony and we had
like five of those yeah and everything
was viewed on the little Sony clamshell
a random recording deck oh yeah which
had this wonderful feature that if you
bought the metadata onto this screen to
see things and you didn't remove it it
recorded
okay so I'll take you secret about those
little clamshell record let's say
they're one of the only things that
exist still that you can still get that
will take the weird video output format
that the NES the original Nintendo and
the Super Nintendo because they only did
every other line so if you put something
that's a modern capture device and hook
it up to that it's gonna because I have
no fucking idea what to do with Wow you
can pipe it through with those old old
Sony clamshells and it fixes it what's
really also funny about those Sony
clamshells
is they're still really expensive yeah
you could you go buy them on eBay
they're like they start at 400 yes and
AdWords knew they were like sixteen
eighteen hundred bucks they were super
O's but that stuff has been like yeah
anyway so that but but over that so that
was where we start the pot we shot the
pilots on three of those Sony's and that
was just you know moving them around and
stuff like that then a high speed no no
no we did have high speed it was an
early early early high speed took 45
minutes to literally between 20 and 45
minutes to save a high-speed shot for
about like 500 frames a second or
something however it was brutal waiting
on the high speed was like the joke wait
high speed that was the constant refrain
your eyebrows grew back faster than the
high speed amen so much faster so over
the years you know the Sony's cameras
are just they're so robust we've burnt
them we've dipped them in water they
still work it's really been one of our
main go-to one of our main go-to brands
I we still use 8c threes because their
audio is so excellent okay and we still
use the frame freak frequently when we
have to record stuff from inside a car
while Jamie and I are driving the sound
guy
Madi can't be in the backseat for every
one of those so he'll throw a Bluetooth
audio that goes from our microphone
right into the hc3
so the editors have super high quality
audio track of whatever we're saying
inside the car so you guys don't know
and he'll have that just sitting in the
backseat on the hood up yeah
actually the little Bluetooth thing he
uses the little dongle it's Lily straps
right to the top of the Sony in the I
think in the microphone mount over that
utility mount that they call it so then
the rustic GoPro is a mine the GoPro
was mind-blowing when it first came out
we bought like the technologies in those
10 years where like the camera guy rent
we got this thing now we got to try it
before the GoPro did you guys
experimental thing anything else there
wasn't many I mean we we got a better
high-speed camera at one point but then
somewhere and I really can't remember
the timeline the phantom was a big
expense we bought it new and it was well
over a hundred it's the Phantomhive
camera that was efficient to the
high-speed camera the phantom flex I
can't remember it's it was the it was
probably the first one that you could do
review on the camera and stuff like that
right yeah with the IU finder yeah yeah
viewfinder well we got a viewfinder so
is that without of you find out it was a
nightmare and actually Scott literally
like at one point I remember somebody
taping a clamshell to the top of the
high-speed camera so saws could wear it
on his shoulder it actually follows down
yeah it was total Cluj yeah well like
the adding viewfinder high-speed cameras
was a big deal when that happened it was
it was a significant improvement in our
ability to cover stuff because before
that I mean we even had like the camera
in looking through a cardboard tube like
literally parallax right to try and
follow something that was blowing up
while moving through well that's how
that's how like that Sherlock Holmes
movie the that famously used the Phantom
high-speed cameras to do the you know to
do the right defy clocks boxing yes
which the slow mo guys Gavin free was a
camera operator on wow that's cool yes
yeah that's fine thanks with you anyway
so we got to play with one of the
brand-new phantoms recently we shot some
shots at 73,000 frames per second ok so
which even which even using the highest
end hard drive they have bolted to the
top took something like 25 minutes to
death look that 73 thousand frames a
second is gonna be 2 mm the speed or
something like that
20,000 is the speed like could you do
tempered glass what's the fastest thing
you do while we were shooting we were
shooting some guns with a stove and with
filming some guns shooting oh so you
wanted bullets coming out of the barrel
this def we saw it it was really hard
stopping ly beautiful and this way that
was that frame rate at a broadcast
quality resolution so what
so yeah and this is something that's
interesting to note about the pro level
high-speed cameras as they'll say we
could shoot up to a hundred thousand
frames per second yeah but the critical
data that you want to know is what's the
highest frame rate you can shoot full
frame broadcast quality and on the
phantom we own I think it's like seven
thousand yeah that's that's really good
no it's really good yeah I mean we we
tested that edgertronic and to get 720p
out of that it was like 107 so what what
the camera does when you want to go
higher frame rate that 7000 is it chops
the frame to save some pixels so the
point of switch yes you could you to
hunt around 100,000 frames per second
but at that point you're shooting this
little tiny square in the middle of jump
yeah its web video in 1990 his exact
pixel vision yeah purposes so the GoPros
were that fandom was a big uptick the
GoPros were and I think we bought one
and then as soon as we used it the
editors saw it we bought two more and
then that next season we made a deal
with GoPro and got like 16 and then the
hero 2 came out hero 3 I think the hero
2 was the year we got like 16 GoPros and
then the hero threes again we use a mix
of Hero 2s and 3s we've broken and
destroyed many I mean the neat thing
about them survive so yeah and they're
300 bucks so so right like that's a ton
of money if you're going snowboarding
that's your only camera button
destroying a Sony 8c3 for 6 to 1500 yeah
so and and the neat thing about it is
even when the camera gets destroyed
usually the SD card inside will be fine
so you can still get you know have you
destroyed any cards we have corrupted a
cut a few cards I know that they've had
trouble with that and that's always hard
to run out of space I don't want to talk
about it norm this week I laughed I made
the triple tape I made the little triple
klutz you know it's the problem with
tribbles out of trouble but the the the
latest thing that has been really
exciting has been has been the black
magics and Duncan's octocopter
so before for aerial footage did you
guys have to rent helicopters we've
rented helicopters for certain shoots
like the second rocket car episode we
rented a helicopter
with with an operator and that camera
guy menu talk to him he filmed
everything in Hollywood and the guy can
drive his helicopter while shooting no
no no no but if your cameraman is
hanging out the window and you say I
want to get go around this scene
counterclockwise he can keep the door
pointed at the scene while flying
complicated really hard to do it's
mind-blowing how good this guy was
remember his name is so brilliant he's
got a credit in the second rocking heart
for some kind of Buster's
yeah we've rented helicopters and I
think during duct-tape bridge we had
some guys with a actual helicopter
remote control helicopter rig with a
camera on it and they couldn't fly in
anything over five mile-per-hour wind
and that was a pain in the end they
spent a whole day and look to their
credit that it's hard to start a
business they were trying to you're
doing a freebie for us just we were
paying their expenses and after a whole
day of shooting we had one usable shot
hmm
Duncan's copter with all that auto
stabilization that it does because
that's the big that's the magic the
magic is is that chips have gotten small
enough computers have gotten small
enough processing powers gotten fast
enough where the copter and
accelerometers gyroscopes yes know what
it's doing and the GPS is the Phantom's
yes really remarkable thing because it
does but you pushed on the Lincoln bush
you can drag on and it goes back to
where it goes back to but more than that
when it loses reception if he loses the
trends you can turn off the transmitter
when it's a thousand feet away and then
eight hundred seven hundred meters away
and it will come back we'll sit we'll
hover back to where it where it goes you
are yeah that's freaking cool the
amazing thing about that though is that
you know when we posted that video and
posted the article people immediately
came out said well you know the
hobbyists the guys who have been doing
this for five years now have been
building their own like Duncan I yeah
we're like look this is nothing this is
two years old you can go out you can put
on a pair of goggles you can fly 60
kilometres away you can come back and
and get first-person video the whole way
right so like this this is hipster
hipster enthusiast it's well that's
really funny watching Duncan fly the
copter because he does it with these
video gasoline got this beautiful
transmitter that
transmits really clear video from really
far away and usually because when we're
using the helicopter we're in wide open
spaces which are ideal for that kind of
exhibition range but he sits there with
these black goggles on and he's moving
his head and I'm like great Charles
how's the shot go in the hobbyist
community for for for multi voters and
flying by video yeah their transmitters
they don't use digital transmitters they
use like security camera transmitters
which is all all analog all radio signal
900 megahertz and yeah they buy cameras
like for like clothes except for
security footage which you could mount
anywhere right and all the transmitters
all small the range is real good but
that means you could have multiple
receivers oh the radio signal right so
there are competitions and events where
people you'll see a row of people on
lawn chairs and they all have the
goggles and they're all watching one
person stun and fly and they're seeing
all the same thing and they're all at
the same time moving their head and
going oh that was a cool stunt you know
the thing that's happening that's really
cool about this multi-rotor camera
platform stuff is that the parts might
be Duncan didn't buy his first quadrotor
was an off-the-shelf kit the second was
that kit with a bunch of higher-end
add-ons carbon fiber anodized aluminum
stuff made super lightweight this third
one is almost entirely Frankenstein buy
him from kit parts from all over the
world and and but there he just was
gonna say is that because of that you
end up with these standardizations that
people are using one-inch carbon fiber
tubing for the long arms and these these
anodized aluminum clamps that they the
the the the the scale of production has
increased to a certain degree where you
can buy these Tinkertoy parts for really
low prices and do some beautiful
constructions well the thing the thing
that's interesting to me is it reminds
me a lot of of not the first wave of PC
building in the 80s but the second wave
you know post Tom's Hardware where there
became there as people realized that
there was a market for people for people
who wanted to instead of going to Dell
or Gateway or I guess the Dell and
gateway were kind of it back then and
build a PC off-the-shelf right they'd go
instead two little screwdriver shops or
mail-order places and say okay I want to
get this motherboard in this video card
and this hard-driving this and get
exactly the computer I want and because
this this hot this is kind of grown up
in the base and people are buying the
same parts to keep to keep prices down
it seems like a lot of that same thing
is happening with the with the quad
rotors or multi rotor aircraft right
right right
and I mean a lot of people who fly them
are and living in the middle of the
country for it's a lot of open space
yeah not a lot in the cities logical in
Hawaii for example this is a great photo
of this guy a friend Eric from the DJI
shared it with us here a guy who was
photographer on his kayak and he had a
phantom phantom one not even the fan
went out hey no remote viewing or
anything and he thought something was
near him so he launched it up in the
camera down took a photo there's a whale
and you could see great whale like 20
feet away that he couldn't see and he's
in the photo in the kayak and oh my gosh
and the Phantom sticking is a great
photo the way unbelievable so yeah I
mean interesting very exciting oh it's
amazing and and as of the new technology
is a great potential for evil and great
potential for good right the reaction as
we've flown it around has been really
interesting we got a real mix of people
who are very interested in it and you
guys may not see this because you kind
of assume you're off in the desert yeah
yeah yeah but like if we take if we go
to a park and launch it from a park and
fly around for a little bit usually a
couple you will come over and ask ask
questions or like what is Leslie and
what it is what does it do how much does
it cost where I can get it but then some
people are super suspicious immediately
real like you what do you are you spying
on me
what's the is that Google glass you know
I think I haven't had anyone be
legitimately worried I have had a lot of
bad reactions from people who I know
personally who you also know personally
really yes we'll talk about this blood
cast yeah definitely people made the
Jets premium content but the only
members are will endure yeah exactly
we should do an article on dickens
arctic up I would love to absolutely
makes time you guys are gonna use it
give us a shout and we'll come out I
totally will if we can
people he's even used it indoors Wow
yeah I mean we were filming some stuff
to hide feet across what's that it's
five feet across yeah that's crazy he's
he's really good he's gotten to be a
really good pilot and it really it's not
just teaching yourself piloting it's
also teaching yourself camera work so in
a film right there's like every time
you're filming something you have to
think about the fact that how do I say
this in the beginning you get a camera
and you take a picture and you think
that represents the thing you're taking
a picture of but it doesn't necessarily
and the photographer learns that every
picture is a story and that you're
composing to tell a story to your brain
about this thing either to limit what
you can see or increase what you see and
then when you're filming something
that's moving specifically a dose style
show like ours scripted reality is the
category your shots have to tell a story
and that's been a earning curve for
Duncan right I mean he's you know it's
an important thing that everybody have
your cameraman has to learn is but what
is the story I'm telling of this I'm not
just shooting a building from above am I
zooming out from the door are we
circling the building if we are then we
need one type of circle not not a
compound circle because the audience
doesn't know what to do with that kind
of shot right so it ends up being like a
working with the editors to know here's
the kind of thing we want to get and you
know now we're getting this beautiful
footage but it's a it's it's like the
new technology you not only need to
learn how to pilot it and also to pilot
and take pictures but take pictures that
you can use in the Edit as the final
piece well and I know a lot of times
when when people use this kind of these
kind of rotors or even jibs like
traditional jibs it'll be one person
operating the jib there's another person
operating the camera right at the end of
the jib so they have a whole plan with
the quadrotor you don't necessarily have
that because they're out of it but it
might be yet to be able to do that you
have a separate operator as well as a
flyer so that you know because when he's
flying it he is literally you know I am
panning and tilting the camera at the
same time as moving the Quadro does he
do the one with the like four sticks or
does he have then he does have his head
no what's that do does he sleep the
camera to his head
he's got the sticks on a transmitter and
there are things he's planning to also
do like add some exceeds been talking
about adding some extensions to the
transmitter to make it a little more I
mean the fact is you know you can do
radical things with these tiny movements
of your hands and you know and film they
often add extenders to the arms so that
it's less radical you know you have more
of an ability to to gently make
movements puppetry yeah exactly exactly
yeah
um so I guess that'll do it for us today
I think that was a productive talk yeah
it was interesting I think we did
smarter than when we started we all
learned something we laughed we cried we
you told a joke we talked about guns
yeah exactly
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