darchibald said:*Is the announcer thedan or Ryan Senechal? Sorry Kris, but he said
"single most...". :p I understand that what you described happens all
the time and its hard to pick out a single most, but if you could
that'd be great. If not what about the hardest or scariest?
David *
The announcer is Ryan Senechal. The video is corrupted on my viewer
about 1/2 way through so I only saw the first part, but I think this was
a bad demo for me!
I really don't know what was the most intimidating. In some ways the
hardest in terms of mental focus was the Television commercial I did for
Monster.com a couple of years ago. The shoot was on a structure
called the Ridiculator (same one as at the beginning of Into the Thunder
Dragon). This structure narrows to about 4" in points, and is about
6"-8" wide, 18' off the ground for about a 30' section, and has a teeter
totter on it.
When I arrived at the set, they had set up a track for their 35mm
camera, right under the tallest part of the obstacle, with spiky
vertical metal poles sticking up from it. If I fell I'd fall on the
camerman 15' below, and possibly impale myself on the spikes. There
was also a lot of pressure to ride well, because the film crew was
giant- about 20 people including 4 cameras, search lights, artificial
smoke, and a food stand.
We filmed for about 6 hours, during which time I rode the high section
maybe 30-35 times. Every time required a lot of focus because a
screwup would have resulted in a really bad fall. It was also
absolutely bucketing rain and slippery the entire time.
In the end they used maybe 4 seconds for their commercial and it cost
them almost as much to get that 4 seconds as it did to produce Into the
Thunder Dragon, including the cost to travel to Bhutan. Pretty crazy!
Kris
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