Aerial FilmingServices Heli-Jet Aviation can provide any combination of helicopter and equipment required for your production. This allows us to cater from everyone from the professional production company who are just looking for a helicopter to use with their own crew and equipment, to the agency who have been tasked with producing a corporate video and need to source the helicopter, camera equipment and operator from scratch. Specialist Pilots and Crew All Heli-Jet Aviation pilots are highly experienced and have long since mastered the unique skills required of the "specialised filming pilot". However, the secret to attaining the best possible result lies in teaming an experienced pilot with the right photographer / cameraman for the task in hand. Heli-Jet Aviation work with a select group of seasoned professionals, experts in their chosen fields, who we can call upon whatever the requirement. They all have many years experience within the industry, and between them can offer a range of services from simply operating the camera to providing full production support. The "Crew": - Peter Smith - Specialising in stills photography, environmental and survey work.
- John Anderson - For all types of aerial filming but with a long history of specialising in TV and Corporate.
- Simon Werry - With an impressive resume of blue-chip cinematic and TV production credits.
The Helicopters Heli-Jet Aviation can provide single engine Bell JetRanger or AS350 Squirrel helicopters, or twin-engined AS355 "Twin Squirrel" helicopters. Any other type of helicopter can be supplied by arrangement. Filming Equipment Heli-Jet Aviation owns and operates a state of the art camera system ? The FLIR Systems UltraMedia II. This is a gyro-stabilised self-contained camera system which can be mounted on the Bell206, AS350 and AS355 range of aircraft. It is a top-end broadcast unit, with the with the following features: - 5-axis gyro-stabilisation
- Vibration Control
- SONY BVP570 Camera with 12-bit digital processing
- 16:9 or 4:3 formats
- FUJI 72 x lens (36:1 with 2 x extender)
- DVW250 Digibeta recorder
- SONY monitors for operator and director (when carried)
- Colour TFT pilots monitor
- Audio input from aircraft intercomm system
The UltraMedia II comes with a dedicated operator / technician trained by FLIR Systems. All footage is mastered on DigiBeta in order to attain the highest quality results. However, we can transfer to any other format (Beta SP, Mini-DV etc) as required. Associated information such as GIS referencing or Lat / Long position referencing can be overlayed on the recording as required. << back |
