OUTBACK EASYRIG …TOO EASY.

“Too easy” is a term you hear a lot of in the Australian Outback. It’s usually the answer when you make outlandish production requests of the Outback folk - nothings ever a problem. And so it was when I took the Easyrig 2.5 bush recently.
It was a Saatchi & Saatchi LA shoot for the new 2008 Toyota Landcruiser, set in the Outback - on a remote cattle station way out in the NT desert. Out of phone range, in wild camel country, LA agency types ditched their I-Phones for cowboy hats for one of the best shoots I’ve ever done.
Over 10 days we tested the Landcruiser to the limit, displaying the many features, and capturing the beauty. Shooting on the HDcam F900R at 24P, the shoot also had a ‘making-of / photo shoot’ element, and an episode of ‘ROAD TEST’ for the USA Speed TV cable channel.
Part of the 800,000-acre ranch was a 10-acre dead flat claypan. We spent a lot of time there - shooting speed runs, aerials, even camel mustering. In shooting the low speed car-to-car stuff, the Easyrig was perfect for the job.
Ian Conway, the station owner, rigged the bullchaser chair to the Quad-bike, then simply welded the post I needed to mount the Easyrig arm. With clamps and webbing, the Easyrig arm mounted to the angle iron simply and securely - in minutes. It blew the client away.
We cruised across the baked clay as if it was carpet – getting dynamic footage you’d usually pay a whole lot more for. It was too easy.

Matthew GORMLY / Sydney, Australia
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