Falling Petals and Wedding Rings - Charles & Camilla Wedding Titles

Summary
  • Production: 'The Marriage of Charles & Camilla' Titles - BBC
  • Director: Erica Kraftchenko

A simple but very effective sequence forming the titles for the BBC's coverage of the wedding of Prince Charles & Camilla Parker-Bowles. A beautifully lit white cyc and red ribbon forms the backdrop for falling white petals and a pair of gold wedding bands. The shot took a lot of attempts to get the timing right between the release of the petals and the rings, and for the rings to fall and settle in just the right place. By using the end trigger facility, the prop handlers worked in their own time: had the shot been done on film, there would have been a lot of wasted film - so much so that the shot would simply not have been possible.



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Technical Details
  • Director of Photography: James Buck
  • Shot at 500 fps.
  • Lens: 50 mm Canon Superspeed.
  • Lighting: 2 x 10K, rigged each side of the white cyc (Colorama).
  • Camera was mounted on Pirate's standard tripod
  • End trigger synchronisation used so that prop handlers could work under less pressure.
Resources & Budgets
  • Standard Definition Photron Ultima APX High Speed Video package (half day hire)
  • Pirate Studio Dry Hire
  • 2 x 10kW lights