ifly Indoor Skydiving
So happy with the results of this very complex project! We were tasked with the difficult job of creating images that embodied the excitement and joy of indoor skydiving. If you have ever seen images of indoor skydiving it is very difficult to capture the essence. The images never seem to truly show the movement, the boldness of the skills of the flyers, or the rush. Indoor skydiving takes place in an acrylic tube, where air circulates from below a flyer and exits the cylinder at the top. The space itself feels like a set from a sci-fi movie, so the potential to make great content exists.
“From the first phone call, through some onset technical challenges, to the stunning result, Tim was engaged and committed to his stated value. He wanted it to be great, and he delivered.”
We shot the flyers in a studio with a suspension flying system, where the subjects could move three dimensionally through the space, flipping and turning and mimicking the actual moves in the tube. We wanted the images to have a sense of movement, so we shot them with 1 second exposures, allowing the light trails to display their movement through space. All the trails and blurs were shot in camera, and then those images were dropped into CGI backgrounds.
