Project BTS

Bunch of object camera rigs on this job. Directors Jordan and Nicholas Aucella always give us a fun challenge when they come into town. The main request was to rig this yellow pair of sunglasses to the camera. They wanted people to be able to pass them around, put them on and take them off. Connor Colby and I conceptualized a few ideas before the shoot and played around with 3D printing some sort of clamp on adaptor for 3/8 rods. Everything seemed like it would work when we tried it in prep but once we knocked off a shot on the shoot day the rig just fell apart. It was way too bulky and didn’t have the right clamping pressure and overall strength. Luckily I brought a backup solution. We instead used 3/8” armature wire and taped it right to the sides. Only thing visible from the front was the armature wire running to the sides of the glasses. The wire went back to mounting points on the camera rig. We ended up iterating on this method down the road for a different job and I think we came up with a pretty good glasses rig solution.