"G" trailer:
This film has a simple premise: to film a fall from 30,000 feet. The Orphanage co-produced the film and provided a hefty amount of technical assistance to director Rolf Gibbs (U.S). The feat was actually quite difficult to do and involved several skydivers, six digital cameras, a bomb casing, and weeks of trying. The main difficulty was in finding a camera that wouldn't be destroyed by the fall. In the end, the solution was to have two cameras, one in the nose of the bomb, the other well-protected in the rear, connected by a firewire cable. That way, even if the impact damaged one of the cameras, the other would remain intact.
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The crew could not actually go up in the plane, since to survive at the decompressed altitude of 30,000 feet, a human being must breathe pure oxygen for two hours. As a result, they had to coach the skydivers on making the right camera settings, all of which were written on the bomb casing. Somewhere in the process, the auto-white balance was left on, and the film required a huge animated colour correction. The film then went through the firm's Magic Bullet process, which converted the digital film to a full-screen version and also video.
"G" debuted at Sundance and has since shown around the world.
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