Best of Both Tech

Don’t forget to shut your blinds! When you mount a light to the robot arm instead of the camera, that’s when the real craziness begins. Some fun BTS of a shot from our @strangerthingstv miniature shoot. All of Season 5 is out on Netflix now! Director: @ryanhamelin Cinematographer: @erin.trout Miniature Design/Construction: @abandonedminiatures Robot Arm: @bestofbothtech #Robot #RobotArm #StrangerThings #StrangerThings5 #Miniature

When right side up becomes upside down! Some fun BTS of a shot from our @strangerthingstv miniature shoot. Volume 1 is out on @Netflix now! Director: @ryanhamelin Cinematographer: @erin.trout Miniature Design/Construction: @abandonedminiatures Robot Arm: @bestofbothtech #Robot #RobotArm #StrangerThings #StrangerThings5 #Miniature #BTS #BehindTheScenes #Splitscreen

DP @jakemoore getting to know our robot arm. #motorizedprecision #kuka #motioncontrol #cinematography #behindthescenes #cinebot #visualengineering #camerarig #filmmaking #setlife #videoproduction #robotics #filmmakerslife #filmlife #filmproduction #filmmakers #cameragear #filmgear #gearporn #cameradept

We’d like to wish everybody a happy Star Wars Day with a peek at a little something we’ve had in the oven showcasing some @drsquatch products from a galaxy far far away… stay tuned! Director: @ryanhamelin Cinematography/Set Design: @erin.trout Robot Arm: @bestofbothtech #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th #MayThe4thBeWithYou #RobotArm #DrSquatch

Had a blast remote operating our @freeflysystems MōVi Pro for DP @robby_sabi on several awesome grip rigs courtesy of @ragtag.grip including a Mitchell adapted ice skating speedrail dolly and an overhead cable cam pipe rig for the ‘NHL - Puck Rush’ for @nhl & @nexplayground . Some of the edits go by quick so let me know if you want a better look at any of the rigs and we can try and hunt down some longer dailies and do some full length splitscreens! (Also shoutout to our @backpack_rig #StayPuffed kit for keeping us powered up without a battery swap) Director/Edit: @charlesbarratt44 Prod Co: @cairene.ny Producer: @ingieenan Production Coordinator: @jacobatthemovies 1st AD: @monypalmieri DP: @robby_sabi MoVi Operator/Tech: @ryanhamelin 1st AC: @coltonhyunh 2nd AC: Gianfranco Bello Gaffer: @harrison.rusk Best Electric: @samidahman_ Best Electric: @elansherman Key Grip: @ragtag.grip Best Grip: @c_angarone1985 Grip: @chuckydiz Grip: @mattfoundou Grip: @czarproductions1 Casting Director: @fuqr Casting Assistant: designersurrogate Hockey Player, Boy: Wyatt Carr Hockey Player, Girl: Kalvyn Lowe PD: @hassel.house Set Decorator: @lissette_emma Art PA: Brian Park Art PA: Marco Hernandez Art Driver / Dresser: Kabir Kumar Hardy VFX: @b_tang Additional VFX: Kalleheikki Kannisto Colour: @cameronmarygold @fairchild.color Grade producer: Brayden Deskins Sound/Music: the legendary @ethanmyers HMU Artist: @rayxcintron Set Medic: @911safesets 1st Team PA: @domingo_lemon Set PA: Quan Robinson Set PA: @mirlienn Set PA: uhlanna Set PA: Nick Kozel Truck PA: Eston Baumer #BTS #Setlife #Splitscreen #NHL

Got to break out our @kesslercrane CineDrive Next kit for the Mike (@mikelikesrap ) & Surf Gang (@surfgang1 ) music video for ‘Back Home’ Director: Matvey Fiks @fiksey Executive Producer: Rebecca Niles @rebniles Executive Producer: Harrison Corwin @durtyharry Producer: Sean Gordon-Loebl @seanglobal Director Of Photography: Doug Durant @dougdurant Production Manager: Lev Khayznikov @whoahyeahplle Production Coordinator: Ruben Grafe Set Pa: Matvey Dolin 1st Ac: Bailey Sweitzer Motion Control Operator: Ryan Hamelin @ryanhamelin Gaffer: Peter Steininger @petesteininger Vfx Supervisor: Denis Reva @denis.reva_ Compositing: Dmytro Danylov Dmytro Lozinsky Bogdan Murin Maxim Soroka Credits: Misha Gurovich @m9u Sound Design & Mix: Nikolay Antonov @nikolayantonov_ Colorist: Joseph Bicknell @josephbicknell Color Producer: Casey Koster Production Operations Manager: Shoko Mizuguchi Special Thanks: Naavin Karimbux @naavink Eli Propper, Binscoring, Niontay, Steven Mastorelli, HandHeld Films & Sea Side Car Service. @BestofBothTech provided the MoCo equipment. #MotionControl #Kessler #Setlife #BTS #BehindTheScenes

To more evenly balance our gimbal, we use small screw-in weights that attach directly to the camera rig. These are essentially telescope counterweights, and they happen to share the same thread size as most camera plates. They’re especially useful when a build’s center of gravity falls in an awkward spot—most often to offset a heavy lens. Modern camera bodies are so light that a fully loaded rig—with a heavy lens, lens motors, and a mattebox—can shift the center of gravity so far forward that the back of the camera ends up hitting the gimbal’s rear bar during balancing. On the flip side, with a very lightweight lens, the center of gravity can drift too far back. That pushes the rig so far forward on the rails that the dovetail plate has too little contact with the gimbal to stay secure. While you could theoretically reposition the connecting plates to compensate, that’s often not practical—screw points may be in the way, or a fan exhaust might be blocked. By using counterweights to keep the center of gravity near the lens mount, we can fly heavier, more complex builds with much better stability. #filmmaking #behindthescenes #techandart #cinematography

Behind the scenes where tech meets creativity. 🌿🎥 Robot arms are honestly amazing for getting cameras into really detailed sets like this. We needed a shot that travels up this river of light and lands on the spirits at the head of the table. The Colossus made it so much easier than we thought it would be. #behindthescenes #filmmaking #creativity #robotics #studio

Capturing the action from every angle! 🎥✨ A golden oldie! Several years ago we took our original M10 gimbal out for a run with the Seattle Seahawks! Keeping up with Lynch was no joke. #behindthescenes #filmmaking #sports #cinematic #production

12 years ago… we took a chance on a small drone company out of Washington State and threw $15k we didn’t have at pre-ordering the promise of a demo of a rollerskating camera operator holding onto a taxi cab window. The @freeflysystems MōVi M10 (the 10 denoting it’s dubious 10lb advertised payload capacity) was the first time the video world reckoned with a handheld gimbal device that could maintain its horizon and remotely reposition its perspective while held by an operator (the tech had been originally pioneered as a way of stabilizing and operating the camera when mounted to a drone). Our little kit (including a @paralinx arrow+ transmitter/receiver, @smallhd DP4 and AC7 monitors, and @redrockmicro follow focus which are all discontinued at this point) was assembled from reading hundreds of pages of camera forums and discussing gear with everyone and anyone willing to listen. It also marked a major career pivot for me personally, as I formally hung up my AD hat (something that I’ve been known to wax poetic about now and again while watching tensions rise and the schedule deteriorate) as I moved to camera department full time as a specialty operator and DP before snaking my way back into the director’s chair once again. A huge shoutout to my forever remote/wheels operator @erin.trout for saving my ass time and time again and doing so in spite of client often trying to steal her monitor from her cart while she’s actively trying to operate off of it. The same goes to all the incredible DPs and ACs we’ve gotten the chance to work with over the last dozen laps around the sun, and hope to see you all on set again soon. #freeflymovi #gimballife #setlife #cameraoperator #cinematic

The final adventure continues! This @lego x @strangerthingstv collab brings both the Byers family home and its upside down counterpart together in one set. Additional lighting courtesy of @lightmybricks . Volume 2 is out on Christmas Day!

Director: @ryanhamelin 
Cinematographer: @erin.trout 
Robot Arm: @bestofbothtech 

#Robot #RobotArm #StrangerThings #StrangerThings5 #LEGO

“The Clock Strikes Midnight” - @strangerthingstv @netflix Return to the upside down for one last adventure… when the final season of Stranger Things debuts on November 26th. We had so much fun collaborating with our talented friend @abandonedminiatures to shoot his incredible miniature inspired by Vecna’s iconic grandfather clock in both our world and his. Shot on our @motorizedprecision Colossus robotic camera arm. Director - @ryanhamelin 
Cinematographer - @erin.trout Miniature Design/Fabrication - @abandonedminiatures Robot Arm - @bestofbothtech Creative | Production | Finishing - @bestofbothmedia #StrangerThings #Netflix #StrangerThings5 #RobotArm #Robot #MotorizedPrecision #Colossus #MPStudio #r3d @reddigitalcinema #ShotOnRed #Commercial #Filmmaker #Filmmaking #OnSet #SetLife #LivingTheDream #TBT #Screenshot #Throwback #BehindTheScenes #BTS #photooftheday #picoftheday #instadaily