Flying-Cam

Production : Barunson Film Division
Country : South Korea

Dunhuang, once a trade city in ancient China and now a well-known tourist attraction famous for its stone caves, and Jiayuguan, an important waypoint of the Silk Road, became the shooting locations of Flying-Cam in the South Korean film "The Good, The Bad, The Weird".

Directed by Jee-Woon Kim, the film evolves around a treasure map and its pursuers. Adventurous and action-packed, the film undoubtedly encompassed shots with energetic camera movements, totally involved in the action, close to the action shooting style used in the last James Bond movies. For five days, the Flying-Cam crew worked in close collaboration with the Director and Director of Photography, Mogae Lee. The film is a box-office hit, and Lee won the "Achievement in Cinematography" award in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2008.

Many shots were executed from a chase vehicle - including those with horses and their riders escaping from a shower of bombs. The explosions added smoke and heat to the already-high temperature location in the desert.

The beginning of the movie involves the Flying-Cam shooting a train on the move. The Flying-Cam Pilot, Remi Epron, was strapped on the top of the train while maintaining visual contact with the remote controlled helicopter circling around the tank engine. The Flying-Cam teamwork once again proved its excellence, showing ability to create movements from up in the sky and then flying low and close providing live dynamic shots under extreme conditions, far from any airports, in the middle of the desert.