This is a fairly technical, rather than visual artish, article by
Peter Zeitlinger, who has a long history of working with Werner
Herzog. But I liked the can-do (or perhaps must-do) approach to
solving unforeseen problems.
The Caves of Forgotten Dreams in 3D
by Peter Zeitlinger ( www.zeitlinger.com)
--The Caves of Forgotten Dreams we shot on SI 2K cameras, on GoPros
and on two tiny Canon amateur cameras.--
The decision to shoot 3D took place only a few weeks before we started
shooting. My contacts to Pille Film and to P+S Technik in Germany (who
developed a system to handle SI 2K cameras for Slum Dog Millionaire)
were very useful to see what was the state of the art in the High End
small camera technology. Their publications all over the world
promised to provide us with all the tools we would need in the cave.
Such as light weight Steadycam 3D rig by P+S and a small recorder for
the SI2K streams by Pille. Unfortunately both companies left us
shortly before the shoot because they felt “not ready to guarantee us
100% of function of their prototypes” Even I told them we had no
choice, we don´t need a 100% guarantee, the Germans don’t do half
things. So we had to go it alone.
[a couple paragraphs later]
The first time we entered the cave we had to shoot right away. There
was no scouting before, Werner Herzog was the only one from the crew
who has seen the cave a few months ago. We carried the clumsy mirror
rig with us provided by British Technical Films. It was proved on
several commercials under studio conditions before. After a few meters
in the entrance to the cave we decided to leave it behind us, because
it was not possible to squeeze it into the narrow tunnel
The rest of the article and a bunch of pictures can be found here:
A.
www.chicas-productions.com
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