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ROB HARRIS

Live while you live.  We met by chance on a dz I’d visit perhaps once a month. Freestyle was new and camera flyers talked about how challenging it was to follow….

DAYS LIKE THIS

5:30 AM: Malaysia, 6000 feet above the ground in an A-Star helicopter. We were in our third day of filming a skydiving sequence for an Indian movie called “Don”…..

NVIDIA

Imagine you’re strapped to a 3500 pound living room in free fall.  20 seconds above ground you realize that your heavy duty seatbelt is stuck….

MY WORK

(my job)  – In this article, I’ll try to give you an idea of what goes into bidding, planning, and filming for a production, and some of the things that can happen along the way.

HELICOPTER CRASH – INTO BLACK

… the pilot took us down low for a cool shot. out of the corner of my eye i saw a glint of sun from a cable strung across the field.

FILMING A WHEEL

Our problem out the gate was not knowing a thing about how tires fall at terminal velocity….

FLYING WITH AN IMAX CAMERA

The location was spectacular. The shoreline is carved into a tangle of inland waterways and our drop zone was a small island with palm trees and green grass surrounded by water and bridges

CATCHING AN AIRPLANE IN MID-AIR

The producers called to see how things were going with “my” project and all I could tell them was that we had no helicopter camera, no drogue, and a dust storm.

MTV B.A.S.E.

When I learned to B.A.S.E. jump, I did it on MTV Sports….

PEPSI GOOSE

When we had the number one rated Super Bowl ad…

FILMING AN INFINITI

Flying with an Infiniti “mono-frame” over the Mojave Desert.

FLYING CARS

To date, I believe I’ve filmed over 200 falling vehicles and objects.