THE ALLEY – We’ve all seen ‘single-shot drone shots’ on the internet in our time.
It does not seem that difficult when you know how to fly a drone. You just fly over something beautiful, do effects to make the colors appear, and voila, you have something beautiful that people like to look at.
Now try adding a story, a script, people and the many moving parts of a bowling alley, and you realize that all the landscape drones recordings are in the ‘dime a dozen’ category. (Not an insult; I’ll crash a drone in two seconds. All your queens are doing well.)
Filmmaker Jay Christensen recently released a drone short film that features all of the unexpected elements above.
The movie is called ‘Right Up Our Alley’ and shows a typical night at the Bryant Lake Bowl bowling alley and theater in Minneapolis. And it’s all done in one shot.
The expedited tour through the alley is pretty incredible. It starts outside, gets into the bowling alley, and then spends 1 minute and 27 seconds sliding seamlessly through the entire place. The film ends perfectly with a landing in the narrow pin back without a single push.
In fact, it’s so incredible that it attracts the attention of people in Hollywood who know what they’re talking about when it comes to film. Lee Unkrich, director of “Toy Story 3”, and James Gunn, director of “The Guardians of the Galaxy,” were both blown away.
Note: this video may cause motion sickness in some people.