Huge cemra rig over massive Teahupoo wave

[Petr Dvorak]

Are you kidding me?!? What a freaky f#*% idea!!!
Camera rig over this nasty monster wave ... Wonder how they can do it without reef damage? :idea:

http://www.patrickmcarthur.com/Teahupoo.html

http://www.patrickmcarthur.com/Previz/Teahupoo_.jpg

[Jonathan Stevenson]

What I'm wondering is WHO the fuck would pay for a structure like this?! Yeah, the footage would be cool, but really??? This has to cost a few mil...

[Petr Dvorak]

dont know, game industry?

[dino g]

pipe dream

no pun intended.

[Jeff Coatney]

Why not use a blimp, zepplin or chopper?

[Alan Skinner]

Hmmmm,

I teach 3D and that looks like a render to me...... (could be wrong)

[Joseph Ward]

I would hope this would be temporary? This is would seem out of control.

[Erik Bien]

Call the Spydercam (http://www.spydercam.com/) guys ...

[Justin O'Neill]

Hmmmm,

I teach 3D and that looks like a render to me...... (could be wrong)

Oh yeah, definitely a render.

[Eren Ozkural]

If I had a tonne of money I'd be playing around with insane rigs like this all the time for art installations and non narrative documentaries...

[Milan Spasic]

Surfing is a big business.

[Petr Dvorak]

Hmmmm,

I teach 3D and that looks like a render to me...... (could be wrong)

He he if you check that http://www.patrickmcarthur.com/ link you will find out its simply 3D visualization from some graphic studio.... Hope that nobody is thinking that this is for real?!?

[Rick Presas]

looks cool...

It's practical uses evade me, but hell, in the world of high-end filmmaking things are rarely about practicality.

[Tom Lowe]

I will believe this when I see it.

[Imran Farouk]

Uhh...if your going to build a structure like that, how do you know where exactly the wave would be like that? Cause it seems like a bit of a hit and miss possibility if anything...unless I'm wrong and someone can predict where a huge ass wave will be EXACTLY and at what time and for how long and how many times in a day/month. otherwise It'll be dead hard to get every shot possible to make that worth it surely!

[Mark Phelan]

Sure would hate to be the surfer who catches a big one only to run into one of those posts. DUDE!!!

[Milan Spasic]

Uhh...if your going to build a structure like that, how do you know where exactly the wave would be like that? Cause it seems like a bit of a hit and miss possibility if anything...unless I'm wrong and someone can predict where a huge ass wave will be EXACTLY and at what time and for how long and how many times in a day/month. otherwise It'll be dead hard to get every shot possible to make that worth it surely!

Teahupoo is a reef break. The wave breaks at the same spot, give or take a little depending on the swell direction.

http://www.sieplywa.pl/filez/news/051029_3/teahupoo.jpg

http://surferspath.mpora.com/images/photographer-folios/hugh-davis/Shane-Dorian,-human-cannonball,-Teahupoo.jpg

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

That actually looks like a really dumb rig.

Huge structure when you can get similar footage with aerial equipment.

[Milan Spasic]

That actually looks like a really dumb rig.

Huge structure when you can get similar footage with aerial equipment.


The only way you could get anywhere near that kind of camera angle is from the water, either swim or jet-ski. T-poo is way to dangerous to swim with the camera and ski is out of question, so the only option is to shoot zoomed in from the boat on the shoulder which is what most people do.

The idea is dumb for multiple other reasons, namely environmental but also it would be impossible to gage the speed of the breaking wave as it varies from wave to wave.... the camera rig would get destroyed in no time. The concept is obviously conceived by someone who doesn't surf or has any idea about waves.

http://www.surfphotosart.com/Surf/Surf-1/Surf-Arena/684156076_66Er3-L-2.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/05/03/0305tahiti1_wideweb__430x281.jpg