Articles tagged with: Rigging

Dec15

Shooting timelapse in Big 5 country...

Categories // Behind the Scenes

Timelapse in Africa is not for the faint-hearted!

Shooting timelapse in Big 5 country...

Wait! What?? An assignment to shoot timelapse in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve... Is this for real?
We were super stoked to be commissioned by Londolozi to shoot some timelapse for a very special occasion that took place at this luxurious 5 star lodge. Not because we will experience 5 star treatment, but because we get to shoot in the African bush!
To date, this has been one of the best assignments E.V.E.R !

Apr14

The BTS story of "Where We'll Go"

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A timelapse film in the making - Jan 2015, on location in the Karoo

The BTS story of

Oh wow! Where on earth to begin with the memories from our most recent timelapse venture...
The Karoo in South Africa is such an incredible location! But it's harsh, it's hot and it's dry! At the same time it's so forgiving. It's so peaceful. It's majestic and magical. It's a destination like no other and that surely must be a good enough reason why we can't get enough of this place...

Sep30

Motorised jibs, cranes and other gadgets

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Going the extra mile!

Motorised jibs, cranes and other gadgets

With the way technology goes there are always new things, new ideas, new gadgets and who knows what else in demand. Better this, better that! Never seen before, never been filmed before, techniques never been used before. And so the list goes on! Maybe the news that we have to share with you is not that extreme but we sure are pretty stoked about it. We have two new very exciting things on the TimeLapse SA forefront...

Sep11

Trees of Life - a Blue Chip Production

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BTS while on assignment with Herbert Brauer & Obsessively Creative

Trees of Life - a Blue Chip Production

Shooting natural history documentaries is what filmmaking is all about!! At least to us ;-)
Being commissioned to work on assignments like “Cats of the Camelthorn” (working title), a new Trilogy about three iconic African trees, is something we’ve been praying for and we’d love to share this incredible experience with you all!

Oct26

The stuff we do…

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Commercials, Construction, Natural History & more

The stuff we do…

As you might know by now we work on a variety of different productions. We travel anywhere, wether local or abroad. There are countless ways that you can incorporate timelapse into any production and with the new Shukuma PRO there are even more ways to produce top quality productions, no matter how big or small!

Oct15

The Shukuma PRO is here!!

Categories // News

Motion Controlled, Real-time video and Timelapse dolly

The Shukuma PRO is here!!

It is with great excitement that we share theses images of the Shukuma PRO with you! It took way longer than expected to get the PRO dolly out but now it's here and it's here with a WOW ;-)

Sep20

Lindeman's commercial on air

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International commercial shot with the Shukuma DOLLY

Lindeman's commercial on air

Yay!! The Australian wine commercial that we rigged the timelapse dollies for earlier in June is finally on air. The entire commercial was shot on the Shukuma DOLLY and it was an interesting combination of timelapse and stop-motion.

The result is fantastic!!

Jun27

Rigging dollies!!

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On set with Exit Films & Groundglass

Rigging dollies!!

Yes! We do work on commercial sets too!! And it's awesome to work with such talented people like director Marc Molloy and DOP Ryley Brown. What an interesting shoot it was; combining timelapse and stop motion ;-)