| Shoot date |
Tuesday 30 May 2006, @ 8:15am
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| Location |
Waterfront City, Melbourne
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| GPS Co-ords |
37:48:56 S, 144:56:22 E
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| Client website |
<holden.com.au/captiva/>
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| Crew |
Two agency reps, a Holden driver plus myself
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| Waterfront City |
Three different Victorian locations were used, but this one was dropped from the final selection due to web design considerations. A shame really, for its winter morning light made it the best of the three!
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| Interior QTVR |
A relatively straightforward cubic VR, complicated only by having to mask the "dot gradient" windscreen sun shield. Both interior and exterior panoramas were done using C41 film, with a Leica M6TTL and 16mm R-fisheye lens, and then masked in PShop.
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| Fly-around movie |
Car object movies are usually done in a studio on a turntable to avoid image-wobble when moving the camera around the car. In this case however the camera was moved, so we minimised jitter by using a special camera calibration technique I developed. The stills were done with a Olympus DSLR + zoom lens + standard tripod, so there was no need for super-expensive dolly tracks, steadicams or bullet-time rigs! BTW the final sequence is presented as a linear movie due to a long-standing VR Object Movie bug in QuickTime.
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| Post production |
Including setup and tear-down, working on location took only a couple of hours. Post processing however took days, mainly due to: hand-drawing masks; matching colour and gamma; endless image alignment & retouching etc. Please allow for this when estimating costs & deadlines.
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