Stunts with ARRIMOTION

The biggest German action and stunt production company - ACTION CONCEPT, lead by Stuntman Hermann Joha, recently used the ARRIMOTION system for a stunt sequence for the film “Alarm fuer Cobra 11”.

The script required a man jumping out of a window and landing on a fast driving car. This stunt would have been dangerous, even for a very experienced Stuntman. So Director Roland Leyer, DOP Andreas Heine and chief editor of ACTION CONCEPT and Stunt Coordinator Hermann Joha developed a motion control move to make this shot possible.

The first pass was filmed only with the car in the picture. The pan was stored in the ARRIMOTION system. Then the window was prepared for the stunt. It needed exact timing to synchronize the jump with the passing car, without seeing the car, of course. Set coordinator Alain Courtois needed only two rehearsals to achieve a perfectly timed jump through the window.

The picture of the video assist was recorded by a Laptop computer and the two passes were edited and composited on the set to give the director the opportunity to check timing and the look of the shot right away.

This procedure is a good way to let actors appear in dangerous situations without actually endangering the actor. With the ARRIMOTION system those kind of shots can be achieved in a simple and fast manner without having to rig a giant motion control system on the set.