Shot in the Summer of 2005 in the Bovingdon Airfield , this was one of the most exciting projects we did so far! We wanted to create an action sequence where a Land Rover would miraculously
escape from continuous air bombings...
The Chase - Video
Obviously this would require a lot of planning and preparation work (cleaning the field and creating the holes for the petrol charges) .
The first step was to define a exact route for the Jeep so that we could place the petrol charges sideways along that path. We mainly used petrol lifter charges, some of them to lift just some dust, other fireballs.
To cover the explosions we had 3 cameras in different positions – one camera up in a cliff covering all the action , other in a second car parallel to the jeep and another inside the Land Rover.
The main difficulty of this exercise was to synchronise all the action with the trigger of the charges along the precisely established track. In order to achieve this we used Motorola’s radios to coordinate the camera car operator and driver with the driver of the white Land Rover and the person operating the firing box.
After some rehearsals and 2 false starts we managed to successfully shoot the sequence. Great Fun !!!
Credits
DIRECTOR : VFX CLASS ( Pedro Pinto, Rodrigo Fernandes, Sambo Gansser , Wilson Stockman )
PRODUCER : Pennie Brown
SFX SUPERVISOR: Graham Brown
