Documentaries on microlight competition

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Close aerial shooting, car follow-up with a biparamotor. Filming with Sony HDV Z1 of a fiction film, "Gorgas Negras" by Jean-Michel Houlbert. Paramotor pilot Ronan Chollou. Cameraman Marc Salama.

All our aerial videos for France3, Total, Marc Perrey Productions are online here with photos that describe the conduct of ground operations.

Indicative prices for aerial filming

A full day of aerial shooting, including gyro stabilization, a biparamotor or microlight two-seater, two operators (pilot and camera operator), insurance included : 3000 € HT / day (with biparamotor) ; 3500 € HT / day (with Dynabulle, biparamotors on wheels, microlight) ; not included : camera, transports (0,70 €/km), accommodation and living expenses. Degressive rates for 5 days : 12500€ HT.

Days unbilled in the event of bad weather conditions which keeps us on ground. You can also shoot with HDCam, 16mm or 35mm (on estimates) provided that the camera does not exceed 7,5 kg.

For any quotations in aerial shooting, please contact us here

Paramotor technical features for aerial shooting

 Power 28cv
 Wing surface 42m ²
 Consumption 5.5L / h
 Altitude of the camera: 1m to 2000m
 Speed without wind: 20-40km / h
 Total weight of the machine less than 50kg
 The machine is dismantled easily and can travel by plane in a canteen.

Technical features of aerial filming equipments, (camera at your expense)

 a Steadicam Pilot for camescopes up to 4 kg.
 a Steadicam Flyer for cameras up to 7,5 kg such as the Sony HDW-750P HDCam.
 3 gyroscopes KS-4 and batteries, (plus one spare)
 small LCD monitoring.
 HF audio with the ground (optional)
 VHF (optional)
 Total weight : less than 15kg

Constraints related to Microlights

1 / you can fly over anything with permit, but we need also good weather conditions, meaning virtually no wind, which is why we work all year round between sunrise +3 hours and sunset -3 hours in "weather windows" that we forecast 10 days in advance waitng for the anticyclone. To take off and land, we need a field not too far from the target to film, at least 60 yards long without hindrance, in the axis of wind. During winter, we must be reduced to 1:30, in the morning and the evening, this time of flight potential.

2 / for large cities permit to fly over is needed and the authorization of the DGAC and the prefecture. Permission is difficult to obtain for obvious security reasons. If we fly over a private property with permission of the owners, this is easy, especially if we take off from a field close to it, belonging to the same person... A parking may be the case if it is empty and without hindrance. In case of difficulties in obtaining permits, we can put you in contact with a specialized production in requests for overflight permission, for any type air shooting.

3 / can be communicated via our HF helmets onboard to a walkie-talkie (optional) on the ground to improve coordination and adjustment, but ideal for the director is to have a video transmission system VHF low definition to view the plan from the ground (system that we do not provide) to refine the actions.

4 / weather constraints always plays with shooting schedules, we must therefore calculate for workload on the day we fly, it is important that the chief operator and other technicians involved are available early on departure for settings diaphragms and optical constraints in the case of 16 or 35mm cameras, and brief me on the flight hardware, which often change... You can use cameras between 2 kg and 7 kg.

5 / we have 1h30 time autonomy in flight : there are shots to stage the need to repeat until everything is satisfactory and plans eventually to illustrate more generally. We can, if time remains after the plans settled, bring these shots from the surroundings with open-clod effect, and more traditional plans. Filming with animals, we must, for example, have horses accustomed to strong engine sounds type motorcycle.

Aerial Shooting with helicopter and small plane

The constraints described above partially disappear with helicopters and small Cessna aircraft that can fly in bad weather, but then impossible to make open-clod like with the paramotor.

The straight shots may be difficult to obtain in a small plane where everything depends on the type of door opening and stayed side of the wing that can interfere with the optical field. A high-wing aircraft without shrouds is the ideal.

With a helicopter straight shot is provided by a way to fly called "crab" which means flying the aircraft 45° offset from its natural axe, so that the optique scope of the camera is in the axis of displacement.

For this type of service, we charge the operator and its gyro stabilization system HT 1500 € / day. The location scoutings, and helicopter rentals remains at your expense.

Prise de vue aérienne au dessus de l’Algérie, cameraman Marc Salama ©mscom 2007

Aerial filming with the Dynabulle

The Dynabulle is a motorized balloon, an airship you can control, which was originally technically developed by Dany Cleyet-Marrel to fly over the Amazon forest with scientists and cameras. It has been popularized since its conception in 1994, as a professional tool in its own right and was picked up by several providers balloonists, including B2O and Fred Lepagnol, pilot and compagny fonder.

Vol au dessus du Mont Dauphin ©absy.com - B2O 2008