A couple of years ago, I had a chance to shoot a commercial in the Kalahari Desert with
a real Bushman.
a real Bushman.
We dropped him at the far end of a salt pan, some 5Km away and had him run towards camera.
On the other end of the pan, we were shooting on long lens though a heat haze. Pretty standard.
But dammit... He didn't run straight, or he
ran too slow, or too fast... We tried yelling but he was too far away. And we couldn't give him a radio because it would be noticeable in shot.
After a couple of NG takes, some genius said -almost in jest- "Shove a radio up his arse".
Hmm. Not a bad idea, you know...
Of course, after that, no one in the crew wanted to use Radio V3 for the rest of the day.
Sometimes the best solution comes from the simplest idea.
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