Life at 1,000 FPS

I recently re-united with director and good friend, Daniel Leeb, of Cinecycle fame. Dan was hired to make more content for PUMA. For this round we were shooting a project with dancers from STREB. STREB is basically Cirque du Soleil meets Stomp with some Brooklyn flav-a thrown in. These performers are AWESOME! We shot a bunch of different stuff, but the highlight was shooting “Crash” at 1,000 frames per second. During the “Crash” piece a dancer (Fabio) jumps through a plane of glass. We shot this with the new Phantom camera that shoots 2K resolution at 1,000 frames per second. To put this in perspective, normal speed is 24 FPS and the faster you shoot, the slower the motion. So, a 5 second clip is turned into approximately 3 minutes. It is absolutely beautiful and I would love to share it with you right now, but I can’t post anything until the composite and edit are complete. For now all I can share is the production still above. So, please stay tuned to my blog for some slow motion goodness!!!