Steadicam operator reacts to ONE TAKE music videos

Checking out some famous steadicam oner, music videos.
Justin Timberlake - Say Something Official Video ft Chris Stapleton
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Goldfrapp - Happiness
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blink182 - Always
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Machine Gun Kelly - Sail
Hopefully useful for other steadicam operators, directors of photography, and camera operators as well as anyone into movie making, filmmaking and cinematography. Shot with a insta360 one x, a Blackmagic pocket cinema camera 4k and M-1 volt steadicam with a g70-x arm.

[@martinfulop9376]

The operator in the Timberlake-video was Ari Robins and it was shot with a Arri Trinity. I've seen an interview where Ari mentions that the longest focal length was at about 300mm for the shots across the building. Amazing!

[@SteadiRed]

300mm that's crazy. I wonder what lenses it was since it is so wide at some points too. Crazy video

[@martinfulop9376]

@@SteadiRed kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHuvk4mHg7hqatk starting at 2:40 Ari tells a little bit about it. But he does not mention which lens they were using

[@vasiliyivanishvili9025]

Perfect fitness for steadicam operator! ;)

[@SteadiRed]

👍👍

[@twotone3070]

That first video was incredible, every aspect of it. In the second one, the car he walks out in front of, a J reg 1992 Saab with the broken plate has got to be one of the crews cars :) There are very few restrictions for filming in London, where you will not cause an obstruction. Some boroughs don't charge for a notice and it's as little as £25 to £100 if they do. In the very popular spots there are safety concerns so more limitation and if you do cause an obstruction anywhere you will be asked to move on by the police. I see the copyrighters got you and interestingly that led me to this comment.... "George Foster 7 years ago Thanks for (some of) the comments guys haha! I am the jumping man, this video was a lot of fun to shoot, and painful! It has 6 cuts and took 13 hours! Each cut was filmed about 10 times! And yes, the fake smile was mostly to hide my breathing and shin splints!! Glad the video brings happiness to people! Hope you all have a great NYE!! x"

[@SteadiRed]

I'm jealous of the restrictions, I feel like it is such a pain to shoot stuff here. 13hours, that's crazy!

[@wwjjss33]

Love these reaction videos, Red! Introduces me to music I hadn’t heard and helps me to see through the eyes of a Steadicam Operator 👍

[@SteadiRed]

awesome! thanks so much!

[@coepeach]

this was so fun to watch!!

[@SteadiRed]

Thanks so much 😁

[@markwigginsDOP]

You should do Peter Robertson’s award winning Oner from Atonement. There is also a btw and interview on KZbin as well.😊

[@SteadiRed]

Yesss, I saw that and was thinking about it.

[@BMObscure]

I would love it if you reacted to some Steadicam work from live music events like Eurovision and Melodifestivalen, some great work there(in my non-profesional opinion lol) and also some great behind the scenes stuff available on KZbin.

[@SteadiRed]

Thanks for the tip 😁😁

[@andresteadi]

Great video as always. I loved the first one specially. Lonely by Justin Bieber has a great one too. The first time I saw it, I couldn’t get my head around how they did it but there is a “making of” video where you can tell they removed some rails by vfx for a crane where the operator jumps in. You can maybe use it in a Part 2 video?

[@SteadiRed]

Thanks man! Good tip I'll check it out 😁

[@chasethetruth]

This thumbnail is too funny lol

[@SteadiRed]

Hahaha thanks

[@ohwhatever]

Maybe you could react to a Polish video "Męskie Granie Orkiestra 2018 (Kortez, Podsiadło, Zalewski) - Początek (LIVE) Official Video", this one is not only one shot but also sang and played live. There's also BTS to this "MAKING OF do klipu Początek (Kortez, Podsiadło, Zalewski) Męskie Granie Orkiestra 2018", so you could react to exactly what they did :)

[@SteadiRed]

Thanks for the suggestions! ill check them out!

[@_rhapsodist]

Ari Robbins did La La Land too ;)

[@SteadiRed]

I ended up looking him up after this and becoming a fan 😁