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the client
with

had

a

a

was an

automobile company

strong emphasis on safety. We

mandate to follow all road laws. To

showcase the

product, we needed
beauty shots of cars in stunning loca¬
tions. Our job was to create excitement
in

a

situation of

more or

less normal

driving. Aerial cinematographer David
Nowell switched from airplanes to autos
for a while to be our cinematographer.
The project's co-directors were Yas
Takata, a ride-simulation specialist, and
Brent Loefke, who has shot many car

commercials.

We shot in several outdoor loca¬
tions in

Top: The

crew

prepares to
shoot a

Iwerks in the Round

Center. The Secret of

by Doug Yellin

minute, 360-degree circle film attraction.

sequence on

the autobahn in

Diisseldorf,

Germany, for
Panorama Tour.

Behind the
wheel is Glen

Necessary, who
did all the

driving for the
70mm ridesimulation film,
and next to the
car are co¬

director Brent

Loefke, left, and
1st AC Scott
Smith. Bottom:
The back seat

of the camera
featured a

car

pan-and-tilt
mechanism, a
video monitor
and a

speed/aperture
control.

Since

leaving the world of main¬
stream features three years ago to join
Iwerks Entertainment as a producer of
specialty and large-format films, I've
been having the time of my life. For one
thing, as the digital world encroaches,
these specialty projects remain almost
entirely film-based. Your final product
might be exhibited in video, but it's
almost always shot on film. For another,
the variety of formats in which you can
work is amazingly varied, posing a
continual learning challenge. I recently
had the pleasure of producing two
unique films for Volkswagen AutoStadt,
the new corporate theme park that
opened last June in Wolfsburg,
Germany. Panorama Tour is a fourminute, 70mm, ride-simulation film that
VW customers experience

picking
28

September 2000

up

just prior to
their new autos at the Kunden

Safety is

a

12-

One of the challenges of specialty
filmmaking is the variety of clients with
which you work. If made for an amuse¬
ment park, Panorama Tour would have
the vehicle speeding, running off the
road and crashing into things; however,

Europe and North America,
including the Dusseldorf autobahn, the
Formula One Ring in Nuerberg and the
Italian Alps site used during the 1956
Winter Olympics. Our U.S. locations
were all in the west: Portland, Oregon;
Monument Valley, Utah; Lake Powell,
Arizona; and San Francisco, Los Angeles
and San Diego.
Helicopter shots done at Mt.

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