Up your (bowling) alley

[George K]

Link to video

Go full screen on this...really!

[Aqua Letifer]

Holy shit. Mad editing props.

Also, nice Lebowski quotes.

[jon-nyc]

Wow.

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in Up your (bowling) alley:

Holy shit. Mad editing props.

Nope:

From the guys:

The only thing that was added in post-production was the audio and dialogue, due to the loud buzz of the drone.

"I'm walking through the scene and I'm cuing each person to throw the ball, or it's coming back up," Jaska said. "It takes a lot of effort. A lot of time."

It all looks effortless in the final video thanks to the work of drone operator Jay Christensen, who says it took about five practice runs, before the team started filming with the actors and movements.

"We probably did 10 takes with the camera running," Christensen said. "The first few, the timing was way off and we would get to a certain part and the bowler wouldn't be there, or maybe the drone was a little out of position, so it was cool to see, halfway through the process, how we had to kind of re-structure everything."

Christensen says most of the questions he has received is about a portion of the video when he flies the drone through a tight space where the bowling lanes meet the pin machines in the back of the bowling alley.

"All morning I was like stressed about that part," Christensen said. "I thought, that's going to be a hard move. I ended up going 15-for-15 on that (including practice). I never crashed once on that move."

[taiwan_girl]

Wow!!! So, it was done with a drone????

WOw!!!!

[brenda]

Nice! Do you suppose this will become a new meme? Drone flights through everyday locations with behind the scenes flight patterns, etc.

[89th]

Drones are absolutely changing the game.... movies, real estate listings, golf course overviews, action sports, whatever Aqua's Sister is currently filming, and now local business marketing.

[Mik]

What witchcraft was THAT???

Incredible and entertaining.