 Yeah, let's go. Fun to see how we pulled off these killer football scenes. Get the play-by-play of our latest football production, from rigging special helmet cams to why we teamed up with the real football team and how we achieved this look using strategic lighting and special effects. Let's dive straight in. We teamed up with Brad Day, a super talented filmmaker and his crew to shoot world-class football action exclusively for the Artlist Catalog. Originally for this shoot we were going to use actors as we usually do. We had to make sure all the moves and the plays looked authentic and real. We're chatting back and forth with Artlist and we figured why not get a proper professional football team and kid them up. This is where we inquired with the Bayside Ravens that energy these two teams brought was just crazy. We had to do one diving shot 10, 15 times they were more than happy to do it. Their facial expressions and their movements, it was just bang on to be honest. I don't think we could replicate that with actors and this is all down to the coach being able to push his athletes really hard from day into night. Now to take the intensity over the top we couldn't settle for a normal set so we decided to snag the Queensland football stadium for the entire day loaded up with the best gear we could get our hands on. But it was the helmet cam that got us really excited for this shoot. We wanted to create dynamic POV shots for this shoot. I really wanted to see the POV of a football player. We actually decided why not get a helmet rig and strap a cinema camera onto that helmet and they can play a full match of wood and super slow motion. This is where the free fly ember comes in. It's compact enough that we can still bolt it to that POV helmet while still shooting over 700 frames a second in 5K. So we could run a full match out in super slow motion, get all the hits, the impacts to dives and I think it really sold those really big moments that typically would happen in a split second but we could pull it down to 20 times that speed, really put you in that player's perspective. I wanted to take the POV shots one step further and actually rig a Komodo X into the helmet of a gridiron player. So he would hold the helmet next to him and run as if he was in a match and to me that was one of my favorite shots because it's literally like you're the eyes of that gridiron player as he's battling his way through the field. Football production of this scale wouldn't be complete without recreating those iconic shots of the athletes making their entrance from the tunnels. The tunnel area was quite small and tight so we really had to think about how we could get that dramatic overhead lighting look without obviously getting the lights in shot so we managed to get a 1200D overhead and just put it on full blast with the smoke of course to enhance the effect of the light and we wanted to give it an extra edge to give the sense that there's camera flashes before the game to build attention. It also allows nice cut points for the editor to be able to use on those flashes. I think what really brought this tunnel scene together though was the energy from the players they just honestly I didn't really say much I said just walk out as you would onto the field and they didn't walk, they ran out and there's so much going on you got the smoke, the light, these guys just going crazy and they're red outfits it was just, yeah, it was cool For a one day shoot there were a lot of setups the most challenging lighting setup of the day would have had to be these slow motion shots With these slow motion cameras you need so much light especially if you're shooting at night we needed to add in so much artificial light to expose these cameras we had a scene where we had five or six players jumping up and catching a bull and this is where we really needed a lot of light pumped onto them Luckily the two 1200Ds were just enough to give them that edge and get our 700 frames a second. In total we had four red cameras on this, a red monster a red raptor and two Komodo X's and then we had the Ember of course so it was a lot to bounce between but we had great operators so we could achieve probably what over 150 shots when you see everyone funny in front of you you're like, I've got a lot of money in my hands I can't drop. From the very first shot that we had in the locker room to the very last shot where we popped the ribbons over the player the energy is the same the whole way through honestly they just pushed the whole day and night to make this happen Scoring this footage was no small feat but we always aim to go the extra mile to create the best creative assets possible ahead of the most anticipated Sunday of American sports we wanted to hook you up with the highest quality assets to seriously pump up your videos and if you're curious to see the final result head over to artless.io and check it out