We Got The Shot: Black Thoughts on a Black Texas Night

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

“WE GOT THE SHOT” (Episode One – Black Thoughts on a Black Texas Night) (Most DVD’s now have a ‘behind-the-scenes” section. Many people like seeing what really happened to ‘get the shot’. Everybody likes aerials, usually shot from a helicopter. But behind the scenes of those beautiful floating shots are some dangerous maneuvers. This is the first part of a story about one of our aerial film shoots filming the Apache helicopter, with flash-backs to the high-speed, dangerous moves the helicopter takes to film a cruise ship in the deep dark Caribbean an hour before sunset in golden hour.) It was a moonless night. I was in a helicopter over a Texas forest. I was in one of those moments where it doesn’t matter what time it is, what day it is, what year it is. We had finished a long hard day of filming helicopter aerials of the U.S. Army’s Apache helicopter. We were headed for home but there was just one more shot to get. I was scooted over as far as I could in the seat of the Bell Long Ranger, which is the helicopter of choice when shooting aerials. **End Summary** Topics: aerial cinematography]]> philosophy]]> humor]]> adventure]]> danger]]> Apache helicopter]]> Cruise ships]]> camera]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> See some Fletch's aerial film work of cruise ships, jetski's, and Apache helicopters atÂ The Association .Â Email Fletch at arrowmaker665@gmail.com . For more stories go to PaulFletcherMurray .

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We Got The Shot: Black Thoughts on a Black Texas Night