We’re shooting a short film of this year’s Fangoria show, and we thought we’d have a bash at building a Snorri Cam rig from bits we have lying about. We slug a tool belt on the Boob, whacked a couple of legs from a tripod in the pockets, tied a length of webbing around his back to each leg, screwed a camera on the top with a wide angle lens… and that was it, it works and everything.
ok, “what’s a Snorri Cam?”, well it’s when you rig a camera to the actors body so it appears to float in front of them, pointing back at the actor. Some say it was invented by Icelandic photographers/film makers, the Snorri Brothers (you see what they did there with the name?). It was used a lot in Requiem for a Dream which is of course an awesome film.
Here’s some more shorts of our rig in action. Stay tuned for the final film.
when i saw those photos on flickr, i thought that must’ve been a snorri cam but i didn’t know what it was actually called so cheers for that. can’t wait to see the film! by the way, it’t not too late to enter the slomo horror film festival. i think march 15th is now the deadline… which gives us a chance to rework the sound on ours a bit. phew! hope all is well with you kids.