Hi there,
after years of just sitting infront of my screens at work, we finally got
a job that required filming from a Helo. hurra

It is an architectural visualisation of a Skyscraper here in Munich
that probabely will be build in the near future. We rented
a Helo including Team (Pilot/Camera Man) from "Heli Team Sued"
who are specialized in filming from Helo´s.
What we are actually going to do is... filming an (more or less) empty
area. Than we´ll use Matchmoving Techniques to combine a virtual building
with a real film (hopefully

).
Of course we documented everything with Photos.
Here are some of them.
-- The beautiful Bell 407 waiting to take us on a ride.

-- The camera system

--Tighter than expected

I´m the guy on the right trying to get in.

--Shortly after Takeoff. Notice the screen in front of the pilot ?
It can be switched from GPS to Camera. In this shot you can
see the camera pointing backwards below the Helo.

-- That´s the point of interest. In these lakes/water holes (whatever)
the skyscraper is going to be build.

-- Oléeee Oléeeee... our nearly brand new soccer arena.. codename "Rubberboat"
Did I mention that I hate Soccer


-- After the filming was done (took about 40min.) We were watching the Helo
taking off to fly back to his homebase.
Shortly after takeoff the pilot flew an extremly low turn about a nearby field.
In the first moment I thought he would crash.. but the pilot obviously knew what he was doing

cheers,
sam