Nicolaas Kroone

Yeoow! Firstly thanks for all the input and ideas. We are still very much exploring how we can do this in the long run that gives us most flexibility. plan a - we designed a cyc / limbo that can be placed on tables and is waist height and made from poly. It would be around 3m x 1.5. The poly makers can make this in sections to allow us to remove ‘slices’ depending on lighting and shots + transport and it can be painted when necessary. The joints can be filled in with polyfiller . I’ve attached a mock-up as an example of a circular version. FYI this costs around €3000 to make. Probably long term solution. plan b - we just ordered a longer paper backdrop (3.4m) and told client we don’t want to go that far to the axis of the shoe that we see the background. So that’s solved. I’ll post the final here once it’s online. I would love any comments or feedback :) Thank you, Nic

Hi all, For an upcoming product shoot we need to film a camera 'flying' around a shoe using a motion control system. I've done this before no problem, however only with a dark 'empty' background. The client wants a gradual grey background and they referenced the 'starting position' of the movement like this... which is relatively simple if we use a paper system. However once we move into the shoe for close up details on the back of the heel we will then see the edge/ end of the paper system. The only solution I can think of is filming on the floor at the foot of a limbo but this means we will be filming on the ground and I would prefer a solution that was waist height. Could anyone suggest an alternative? I was considering using a 2.7m wide paper background but utilise the width to make it very long. Or placing 2 paper systems together? Thanks in advance! Nic