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videoing ground crew.
Im thinking in genneral(all 4 letters).Slider off/slider up.

Which angels gives the best shots.
should you considder wideangel lenses for real low stuff?

Any cool ideas how to make even greater video?

I know it might belong in the photoforum,but i guess i get the best respond here,while im only intersted in video of BASE..

Thanks

One of the best shots I ever saw was from the Petronas Twin towers.
A nice video from inside the building, looking out over the city. It just looks like a normal scene, and suddenly a jumper falls by the window.

But in general, if it's about good video. Try getting some nice steady shots, instead of the rough shaking video you normaly see....makes it look cool and professional...

I agree. Having a camera halfway down the object yields very cool video. You can either just pan the view, and let the jumper fall through, or you can follow the jumper as he falls down "into" the lens, then past. It takes a quick cameraman to get the second shot, though.

We've also done a variation on the second where the cameraman is also a jumper, and exits just before the jumper reaches him. That way, he starts falling, and the jumper passes him, but stays in frame a bit longer.

Another cool shot (you can see this on Fist Full of F-111 on Karin's boyfriend's footage) is to have the cameraman and the jumper rotating at the same rate--so that they appear to be hanging still while the whole world rotates around the outside of the frame. Be warned, though, that you'd better have a cameraman who is a world class aerialist (see who shot the footage I'm talking about) to get this kind of shot.