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Upper Cut Productions is a leading
provider of remote aerial filming and
photography services and holds all relevant
legal requirements in the UK and Europe
to undertake commercial aerial work using
unmanned aerial vehicles.
For over ten years our mission has been to
offer unparalleled imagery from a unique
perspective, at an affordable cost. We
now have an industry leading solution
incorporating the latest Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology into our
custom-built HeliCam drones. We put this
technology in the hands of experienced
pilots who fly with great accuracy and
creative understanding.
Upper Cut Productions has undertaken
a wide variety of work, including feature
films, and BBC documentaries. The
BBC recently approached Upper Cut
Productions to film inside York Minster
for a new documentary on how the
building is run – which was broadcast in
March. In 2013, Karcher UK were looking
for a company to film and photograph
the cleaning of The London Eye using
innovative techniques, and specifically
the HeliCam. They approached Upper Cut
Productions who met the brief and further
added value with its specialist technology
and attention to detail. Mini head-cameras
were used for ‘point-of-view’ shots, time
lapse cameras were used to creatively
speed up the 13 week project and large
camera cranes and sliders were used to
add dynamic footage to the production.
Karcher cleans the London Eye
With an emphasis on providing dramatic
imagery for clients, the company’s ground-
based filming and photography kit list is
heavily reliant on the latest technology.
Some examples include a motorised
pan / tilt robot for ultra-high resolution
‘Gigapixel’ photography, a motorised ‘track
and dolly’ for motion time lapse filming and
the MoVI M10 – a ground-breaking 3 axis
gyro stabilised camera mount which allows
smooth shots that previously would not
have been possible.
Upper Cut Productions’ success to date
has been largely due to its creative use
of new technologies and techniques for
filming and photography. Recent examples
of this include using a ‘Gigapan’ robotic
camera mount used for capturing ultra
high-resolution photographs. Getty Images
was approached with the idea of using
this technology to photograph the Royal
weddings in London and Monaco, which
were challenging but successful.
The company’s recent acquisition of the
MoVI – a state of the art gyro stabilised
camera mount – has opened many doors
within the filming industry. The camera
mount intelligently stabilises the operator’s
(or HeliCam’s) movements and the result
is incredibly smooth footage. This alone
has created new opportunities for clients
but Upper Cut Productions has further
enhanced the possibilities by applying
creative techniques to the operation of the
equipment. An example is by using the
camera mount to film while on roller blades
or a skateboard – this was successfully
done to film a recent NEC trade show
with long, smooth tracking shots around
machinery and trade stands. The vast
14,000sq m of trade show space was a
challenge to film creatively and succinctly
but the rollerblade and MoVI idea helped
enormously.
Upper Cut Productions Ltd.
Studio 6C
Oldknows Factory
Egerton Street, Nottingham
NG3 4GQ
Chris Wilkinson
Tel: 0115 924 2646
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