Shot in 1 day in a studio outside of New York. You may notice the spots are shot entirely in camera in one take which is something the client wanted to do. Including the last :30 spot on this video.
Though it looks easy, between the steadicam rig, skater scope lensing needed to spin within the camera housing and lighting the water effect we rehearsed the camera movement, rigs, efx, etc. with a stand-in and when our actual Host arrived we shot it in only 3 takes and then moved on to shoot 3 more spots that day.
Credits:
Client: National Geographic Channel
Props Fabrication: Christopher Jones