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Thomas English, UK based Steadicam Operator 07970 025 389
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Here. I am Operating Steadicam in super low mode with 8 inch actors! You see here I was asked by Malcolm Hadley to shoot 8 inch actors as though they were 6 ft humans.
So to get the camera this low to the ground I have to go into what is called super low mode. As you can see I have had to fully extend the entire sled which is an MK-V 4 stage post. Using this technique I can literally get the camera to fly within an inch of the ground.
Operating like this with miniatures is definitely testing. With such small people, so close to the lens any movement on the lens is immediately noticed. Booming the camera up by half an inch is the equivalent of booming up by a foot on a real person and they would look the same as they take up the same amount of room in frame. On a normal human; an inch wrong on headroom can be an ugly shot, now that inch on a mini human must translate to a millimeter. So its precision operating all the way! Every single
This was a promo directed by Susan Ayton for a new BBC series called “Corridors of Power” The puppeteer was Geoff Felix.
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