Remax Skydivers

[nakedfool 0]

Just wondering if anyone knows the guys that are in that Remax Commercial that has been airing lately. Im new to this sport and am trying to find out how tight the world of skydiving really is.

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[DSE 5]

Norm Kent shot it at Mile Hi in Colorado, but I don't know any of the jumpers in it. There is a thread here somewhere, TDog shot some ground pix.
6-8 skydivers, the rest is all CG.

[VTmotoMike08 0]

Does anyone have a link to a video (youtube?) of this commercial for those of us who have not seen it?

[wmw999 2,550]

Here's a thread about it from a couple months ago.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[waltappel 1]

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Just wondering if anyone knows the guys that are in that Remax Commercial that has been airing lately. Im new to this sport and am trying to find out how tight the world of skydiving really is.

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I wasn't in the commercial, but I've jumped with the Re/Max team plenty of times. If you're wondering if all skydivers know each other, the answer is no, but if you stick around the sport long enough and go to a bunch of boogies, you'll get to know quite a few people--some famous, most not.

Walt

[tdog 0]

I am in the entertainment business so I was hired because I knew skydiving and production... It was still so much fun I would have done it for free.

I am in it, and was the production coordinator basically responsible for all the skydiving in the shoot.

BB Productions is the producer, and I can say it was the best group of folks I have worked with in production in a real long time. I would hire them in an instant, in case you need a video producer.

I worked with the producer from the beginning, about 2 months before the shoot.

I referred Norman Kent and a few other folks including a real talented local skydiver for the video slot, but they hired Norman after reviewing his resume. They described the lead female to me, and I immediately knew Elaina would be perfect. The male lead was chosen by looking at photos and video screen shots of about 5 very talented people.

They had a rough story line - I spent a few days in e-mails and at Starbucks with the client making it possible, taking their ideas... My responsibilities ranged from buying all the jump suits, to getting permits from the city to put up tents, to placing skydivers in CAD drawings to measure angles, to manifesting loads, to making everyone's rig black (yes, gaff tape was used), to telling the graphics artists what was and was not possible in freefall - as the whole thing was originally storyboarded in a computer. Some of the shots I can look at and say, "that wave was my idea", and some are the ideas of Norman, and the rest were the talented producers and writers who were involved.

I also got to jump and do high pulls before the shoot to get photos of the entire "world" around the airspace. Using over 100 digital photos, the GC guys were able to piece together the perspective of a camera anywhere around a CG skydiver. A 360 degree view. That was cool to do for sure!

All the skydivers were real good folks and without them we could not have done it. Not a single exit was funneled, not a single shot was botched... Except for the weather that ruined the light - we had 100% success, making the "makeup jumps" we planned turn into some of the money shots that were used because we needed no makeups! That was the best feeling I got from the shoot - that they nailed it!

The ground side of the shoot was all done by Hollywood talented folks, including the director who is well known and does the TV show Numb3rs. He ran the camera personally on the ground, he is real hands on. I had nothing to do with that, other than to eat the food in the catering cart.

The whole thing was shot in HD, and Norman purchased the camera to be used so it would match the ground cameras. It was recorded to memory cards and downloaded played back immediately on the ground on laptops for debrief.

It took three days of jumping to put the entire thing together. Most of the footage was cut out for the shorter spots you see.

Elaina (Arizona Airspeed) and Chuck are the "stars" - as this was made for a 10 minute long internal use video that was reedited down to a 30 second consumer spot, and a 15 second spot. The leads have a lot of speaking roles in the 10 minute versions, including being in business suits and selling homes and driving convertible mustangs around town. Elaina had to drive the mustang for hours around the same corner to get all the angles needed.

The non-speaking role skydivers include people who post here on various frequencies - from "Mustard" to "Dionysus". They asked for a "cross-section of life" so we had people ranging in age and ethnic background. In the 10 minute version you see a lot of the skydivers boarding the plane, jumping out (on crash mats), prepping on the ground, landing, etc.

Except for Norman and Elaina - all the skydivers are just real good belly fliers who took time off from their day jobs. The REMAX canopies came from the REMAX demo team, headed up by Al Saylor. He jumped a few canopy shots too.

(Oh, and I hate to break it to ya, but the shot was done with 10 freefall and 4 canopy skydivers, the rest are computer generated.)

All the shots were filmed at Mile High Skydiving and in the residential neighborhoods around it. Mile High was an excellent host, and I would recommend them for any future commercial shoot.

[AFFI 0]

"Elaina (Arizona Airspeed) and Chuck are the "stars""

Chuck Norris???

[tdog 0]

I left last names out on purpose, this is the internet, they might not want to be known. They can disclose if they want.

[jumpwally 0]

Any idea what the whole production cost?

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[azdiver 0]

know of any links to see it ive searched with no luck

light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak