Have you ever wondered how promotional photos and video of aircraft in-flight are made? Are they even real or produced by a computer?
United Airlines not only took new in-air video and photos of its newly-revealed livery; it also made a behind-the-scenes video showing how these photoshoots are done. Take a couple minutes to watch the video below:
I appreciated this video because I assumed, wrongly, that most beautiful promotional shots were simply created with advanced photo editing software. Maybe that is still the case in some cases, but this video shows how it is done the “old school” way. I’d love to be on one of those flights!
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Air Canada put out a bunch of content through various channels, including their Navi magazine, when they rolled out their new livery a few years ago.
Here’s some of it: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/21/watch-air-air-photo-shoot-787-dreamliner/
You mean it’s not Maverick and Goose with a Polaroid?
Awesome!
Thank you, Matt.
Have always wondered how they do it. (And wonder how they did it many years ago without the current technology, on film, where you get one chance to do it right.)
Ok, thats awesome.
I haven’t looked at the video yet but I saw on TV how they did it. They had a Learjet something (maybe Learjet 75) with a special camera. The Learjet then flies next to and slightly behind the airliner, maybe slows down and goes the the other side. It does many takes and that’s it. The Learjet pilot has to have special skills to make the video seem smooth.
Too bad the United tulip is not back.
Really fascinating. Thanks for sharing that link. Awesome stuff!