Behind the Lens
I know that this video has been making the rounds this week, but I had to say something about it. Because I love it.
I know that a lot has been said about the band, and about the engineers at Syyn Labs that created the amazing, incredible, fantabulous Rube Goldberg device that filled a three-story warehouse.
I just wanted to take a moment to commend the camera operator(s) who were able to film the entire machine from start to finish. Maybe I’m just not seeing it, but I didn’t see any camera tracks along the floor, which makes me think that this was filmed with a Steadicam held by a camera person. Which blows my mind, because the timing of the camera movement had to be so well synced as to not miss any of the vital movements. To me, that is just incredible.
Maybe it’s because I’m spending more time behind a (still) camera lens, but I couldn’t imagine how hard it would have been to navigate through this space and capture every single moment so precisely. And not bump into anything, thereby ruining the elaborate machinery. I know I would have.
Well done, director of photography and camera operator. Well done.
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I was thinking about that, too, and, yeah. If that was done manually (which seems highly likely), they did a fantastic job. Go them.
I thought the exact same thing while I was watching it. what an awesome job!