NickfromWI
03-27-2008, 09:53 PM
I was hired to make someone fly! A LA studio was hired by Nintendo to make a commercial for Wii (http://www.nintendo.com/wii). The commercial has many parts to it, but one part is a girl flying through the air after being shot out of a canon (like at the circus).
I came in on short notice. I would've made a custom harness that was more comfortable, and I almost went home and got my sewing machine and some webbing after I saw what they wanted, but we made do with what we had.
I put a rock climbing harness on her backwards then pulled the clip in loop out of the back of her pants, like a little tail. That's where she clipped in. Then to keep her body upright, I took a 24" webbing runner, made a fig 8 out of it, put her arms into that, across the front of her body. I used a piece of zing-it in the back to bring the ends of the 8 together. I clipped her in to the zing it, after seizing a little eye into it. I adjusted where the criss-cross of the figure 8 should be, then realized it wanted to ride up to her neck :O So I adjusted it to where it SHOULD be, then safety pinned that together, took the whole works off of her, then hand sewed the criss-cross of the 8 together, then put it back on her, then used another piece of zing it tied from the criss-cross to her waist harness. That kept the thing off her neck.
Sounds crazy, but it turned out to be quite comfortable. She would hang in it for up to 3 minutes at a time between takes with only minor discomfort.
To blend with the greenscreen, I used Yale's Chameleon color of Blaze. Barely showed up on the film!
I hung a pulley up in the rafters about 30' over head(with a back up, too), then set up a z-drag with a prusik down low as the belay. With the pulleys, and the girl only weighing MAX 90 pounds, it was quite easy to lift her up, then adjust her up or down as the camera needed.
I kept the rope bag near by to anchor down her end of the when she WASN'T clipped in.
Here's a few pics...
love
nick
Here's some pics...
I came in on short notice. I would've made a custom harness that was more comfortable, and I almost went home and got my sewing machine and some webbing after I saw what they wanted, but we made do with what we had.
I put a rock climbing harness on her backwards then pulled the clip in loop out of the back of her pants, like a little tail. That's where she clipped in. Then to keep her body upright, I took a 24" webbing runner, made a fig 8 out of it, put her arms into that, across the front of her body. I used a piece of zing-it in the back to bring the ends of the 8 together. I clipped her in to the zing it, after seizing a little eye into it. I adjusted where the criss-cross of the figure 8 should be, then realized it wanted to ride up to her neck :O So I adjusted it to where it SHOULD be, then safety pinned that together, took the whole works off of her, then hand sewed the criss-cross of the 8 together, then put it back on her, then used another piece of zing it tied from the criss-cross to her waist harness. That kept the thing off her neck.
Sounds crazy, but it turned out to be quite comfortable. She would hang in it for up to 3 minutes at a time between takes with only minor discomfort.
To blend with the greenscreen, I used Yale's Chameleon color of Blaze. Barely showed up on the film!
I hung a pulley up in the rafters about 30' over head(with a back up, too), then set up a z-drag with a prusik down low as the belay. With the pulleys, and the girl only weighing MAX 90 pounds, it was quite easy to lift her up, then adjust her up or down as the camera needed.
I kept the rope bag near by to anchor down her end of the when she WASN'T clipped in.
Here's a few pics...
love
nick
Here's some pics...