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the ceiling of a long, curving hallway set,
where crucial scenes take place during
the attack. "It was built into the rotating
set with 'super sliders,'" Irwin says, "so
we could zip-line it along corridors
while the set was rotating 180 degrees,
like a big rotisserie." The rig made use of
a compact, gyroscopic Alpha Stabilized
remote head supplied by Aris G Films
in Vancouver. Irwin had previously used
the head with Imax cameras when
working on Interstellar, and he recommended it to Windon, who quickly
decided to make it "the default remote
head for the entire movie," the 1st AC
notes. "The Alpha Head is robust,
small, and can take that 'abuse' for action
photography. And it's easier for this
kind of work because it is a smaller
package than some of the other heads
we might typically use - [and has]
outstanding stabilization."
Haley was also a big fan of the
Alpha head "because I could happily
operate from outside the gimbaled set
with a remote set of wheels, and yet
make the camera move extremely fast,"

The production crew shoots a large day-exterior scene in which Krall's forces round up the
Enterprise crew, including Uhura (Zoƫ Saldana, bottom left) and Sulu.

he says. "We were using the third axis of
the Alpha head, sometimes just to stay
level with gravity and allow actors to
seem like they were climbing walls,
essentially giving us the ability to create
different effects. When one has to do
whip pans and other precise, quick
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movements [with a remote head], there
can be a slight, built-in delay in the
transmission. I've learned from experience [on the Fast and Furious movies] to
anticipate the action so I will not be late
to the party."
Also central to the illusion was a
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