From 994 First to Use Freefly System s MoVI M0 with ARRI Alexa M

From 1994 First to Use Freefly System's M VI M10 with ARRI Alexa M 09 Jan 2014

The emotionally powerful short film, From 1994, produced by Seattle-based MINDCASTLE, is the first film to be shot entirely using Freefly System's M VI camera stabilizer with the ARRI Alexa M digital cinema camera.

Produced by MINDCASTLE's directing team of Casey Warren and Danielle Krieger, From 1994 is a sensitive tribute of love, loss and a mothers last wishes for her child. Warren credits the M VI M10 gyro-stabilized 3-axis gimbal system with allowing him to achieve the film much as he had imagined it.

The M VI is its own unique thing, sort of a floating crane that can go anywhere, explains Warren. I've shot with cranes and jibs and things like that, and once you set it up, you can only try shots you can reach from where the base is set. The difference with the M VI is that the base can be anywhere, and you can start experimenting right away. When a shot demanded the camera be relocated, that was easily done in seconds.

The M VI features Freefly's proprietary and highly advanced control software/hardware and 3-dimensional navigation avionics providing smooth stabilization and acceleration correction. Designed to handhold camera packages up to 12 pounds/5.4kg, M VI M10 is the ideal gyro-stabilization complement to ARRI's modular Alexa M, which packs all the same sensor, image processing, and image quality features of the groundbreaking ARRI Alexa into a separated camera head and recording electronics package. The M VI operator carried the Alexa M's recording body in a backpack, which was connected to the camera head by a flexible fiber optic cable. To facilitate the Alexa M, the team used the new M VI Extended Cage option that also accommodates the Sony F55.

Warren and Kreiger used M VI both in single operator mode, where the cameraperson self-steers the camera panning and tilting, as well as dual operator mode. In dual operator mode, using the M VI remote controller, a remote operator has the same camera-steering control over a wireless connection.

Warren said that the freedom the M VI provided allowed the team to shoot portions of the film tightly to the script, while freely shooting other material to choose from during editing. I think the shots all kind of contain the same speed of movement and dynamics. For me they cut together really well.

MINDCASTLE will showcase From 1994 (http://vimeo.com/81111195) in film festivals throughout the coming year. The BTS showing how they used the M VI can be seen at http://vimeo.com/80748235. Warren and Krieger are a Seattle based Emmy Award winning creative duo whom direct and produce content for the web, television and the big screen. They have created work for HBO, Showtime, Canon, ESPN, Microsoft, Chevrolet, Nike and Gatorade.

The M VI M10 package includes the M10 Gyro Stabilizer, wireless transmitter system, docking stand, batteries and battery charger. Visit www.freeflysystems.com to see videos and to get ordering information including the expanding M VI network of top professional dealers worldwide.

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