MK-V AR + Omega Revolution rig...

THE MK-V AR HAS NOW BEEN UPGRADED TO THE OMEGA-REVOLUTION. MUCH HIGHER RESOLUTION AND FAR MORE RELIABLE THAN THE PREVIOUS SENSOR AND BRAIN TECHNOLOGY.

Below is my original MK-V AR Revolution Showreel invented by Howard Smith. The MK-V AR allows you to fly the camera completely level anywhere in space from the floor to 9ft in the air. The nature of holding a sled out parallel to the ground also means that the camera can now fly over tables, beds, children and any other suitable cine-furniture doing shots where normally only a techno-crane can go.

This is the second smoking commercial I operated for DoP Barry Ackroyd. The making-off this advert is in my main showreel above.

Below is my friend and amazing AR operator Chris McGuire’s piece that nicely demonstrates the camera head retaining level when boomed from the floor to great height as well as additional control of camera level to spin the camera relative to level-horizon. Chris McGuire is awesome and is based in LA and available anywhere in the world.

You want to check out Chris McGuire’s showreel pages yourself. He’s the best in the world but I do my best to copy him.

Below is a load of top-secret testing I did with my friends: Memo Akten, Barney Steele and Robin McNicholas.

My mate Ceri Stokes did the music for this scratch reel.

This is a very fiddly film we made with Pretzel films (Giles Ripley Dir.). Very confined spaces with a lot to go wrong.

And below is a little making-of

Below is my good friend and mentors new showreel. It’s awesome! It demonstrates some of the amazing and clean shots possible with the Revolution AR. Like I say, Chris McGuire is the best in the world on the MK-V AR but I’m busy learning everything I can off the man. He’s based in LA and available anywhere in the world.

Christopher TJ McGuire Showreel 2012 from Christopher McGuire on Vimeo.

I am looking for really special shots to add to my showreel. If you are shooting a short film and have a shot in mind that would add to your story and show-off the AR rig please get in touch. I will be asking you to fill in this form.

Alpines – Lights On

Music video for the Alpine Directed by Ryan Hope and DoP’d by Tony Miller. This involved a lot of very long tracking shots with the AR rig used extensively to go from high mode to low mode in one shot.

A wolf’s POV running through the streets at night for this commercial we shot in Romania for director Chris Hewitt and DoP Chris Sabogal. It involved a lot of running with a Steadicam, Alexa and Master Primes. The big crowd scenes we did on a Rickshaw or hanging off the front of a speeding car [...]

Vicky Lawton, the creative director at Rankin Films, directed this short for Panasonic to show off their new GH3 camera. A tiny little body that packs a punch way above its weight with respect to sensor quality and data-rate. I was asked to operate the AR (now upgraded and renamed to the Omega-Revolution) and Tony [...]

Epson Corporate we shot on the AR rig with talented Sy Turnbull DoP ing and Rollo Hollins in the directors chair.

For DoP Ole Birkeland; Alf Tremontin and I got to do plenty of Steadicam on this cult series “Utopia” but this shot I got to shoot is truly awesome! The car crash itself was shot with a RED epic in the back of a car and genuinely crashed as you see on camera. I was [...]

Directed by free thinking radical Cosmo Wallace this advert for Benenden challenged everyone. The now famous DoP Mattias Nyberg wisely chose to shoot using myself on the MK-V AR rig and summoned every bit of lighting ingenuity to shoot this commercial in a torrential downpour. You see after the first few shots, which happened in glorious sunshine, the weather [...]

Using the AR in head spinning mode rather than stabilization mode I operated on this promo for Director Franklyn Banks and DoP Thonke. The theme was much floatyness. I think we succeeded.

Again I used the MK-V AR to spin the camera revolutions for this video for Rankin Directing which Vicky Lawton worked tirelessly to make a creative to unsettle and disturb. DoP Tat Tadcliffe DoP’d this moody promo with lots of claustrophobic close-ups, scary clowns and caged humans. It was a long days shooting with Rankin [...]

Clement Marfo & The Frontline – Last Night

We used the MK-V AR rig to great effect for this surreal video for Clement Marfo directed by Martin Pickering now at Nothing To See Here. It allowed us to get in over the hot tub as well as the writing sea of semi-clad girls. Then we span the camera. Photo: Si Gross The AR [...]

Shooting for Coca Colas campaign for the London Olympics we used the MK-V AR rig for the opening shot of the commercial and regular Steadicam to get lots of very intimate crowd. shots. Dan Bronks DoP’d this with great panache for Director Chris Cairns based at Partizan. The initial opening shot, of the torch bearing [...]

NHS Scottish Blood Transfusion – MK-V AR used for a subtle head rotation

A commercial to encourage blood donation in Scotland produced by Mallinson Television Productions for the NHS. Director Zak Salim anted to use the MK-V AR to gently rotate the camera and the Steadicam to give an unsettling feel to the piece. DoP’d by the very cool George Cameron Geddes. I wouldn’t have been able to [...]

COTY Web Commercial – Macro moves on the MK-V AR

A web-commercial for COTY directed by a talented the Brazilian director now working in London for Crane.TV; Nicolas Viggiani and DoP’d by Ed Mash. I had to do load of tight macro-esqu shots for using the Mk-V AR Rig. These were particularly tricky shots as the foreground objects were so close to the lens that [...]

MK-V AR rotating head unit for Orbital “Wonky” (Feat. Lady Leasurr)

There are a few ways to spin cameras. Traditionally a Scorpio head has been used this comes with its own issues. I have a few ways of spinning the MK-V AR head independently of level for different types of applications enabling the camera to fly anywhere at any angle and that camera can rotate in [...]

This is a very fiddly film we made with Pretzel films (Giles Ripley Dir.). Very confined spaces with a lot to go wrong. We chose to shoot it on the RED MX and the MK-V AR. These kind of macro close up shots are very difficult but it wasn’t too much of a problem. The [...]

Playstation- Most Insane Movie Experience

The most mental job I’ve ever been involved with. We strapped a Playstation move to a camera, rigged inside the MK-V AR rig, sucked all the camera tracking data out of it to give position, orientation and speed and rendered out the projection mapping in a room to the perspective of where the camera was. [...]

I have implemented a new way to roll the camera independently of level so we shot this little music video as a test. Its clearly the kitchest music video I’ve ever been involved in but it was a nice easy setup and I needed the pressure of 40 people standing around to truly put the [...]

AR rig- Anti smoking commercial

I have only just managed to get a copy of this commercial we shot years ago. It actually never aired because of the polonium 235 incident where a Russian dissident was killed with a sprinkling of radioactive sushi. Apparently this spot was too similar to these sushi murdering activities. Anyhow, an awesome commercial directed by [...]

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