Project:
Faces of Iceland
Participants:
xoio – concept, production, postproduction
Year:
June 2014 - January 2015
Task:
Production
Scope:
Everything :)
No CGI this time – but real crash landings and a heroic amount of duct tape instead.
In 2014 we set out to scout Iceland the old-school way: by actually going there with our trusty DJI Phantom 1, some DSLR cameras and a reckless level of optimism. On this aweinspiring piece of earth we tested epic drone flights, time-lapse sequences and ultra-panoramic shots – all for real, no cg trickery involved.
With 24 hours of daylight we ended up cleaning motors in our tents, swapping bent rotors and taping the cracked shell of our first generation drone back together at 2 am – a true pioneer experience. Two weeks, a pile of memories and this footage remain – etched in our heads, for sure.