Ferrari

488 Pista

This was our second collaboration with Ferrari. In a nutshell, the key to high speed poetry, capturing the feeling of being in one of the world's fastest road-legal cars, was to find a camera vehicle that could keep up at top speed. In addition to a high-speed UCrane, we mounted a number of cameras on a racing car that could match the speed of the 700bhp Ferrari. At certain moments in the film, the film goes into extreme slow motion and the time freezes. These scenes act as exclamation marks and provide an opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the design or to observe details such as the glow of the brake discs, that would otherwise be too brief to notice.

Role:  dop

Credits:
agency: Naïve
production company: Mercurio Films
producer: Luca Fanfani
director: Lino Russell
1st AD: Matthew Launay
Ferrari pilot:  Niki Faulkner
UCrane dynamic: Lutz Schleissner, Igor Teljukow
key grip: Alvaro Coque Morales
shot on anamorphic lenses

Director Lino Russell (picture: on the right with 1st AD Pedro Outon) explains perfectly how he imagined the film for the Ferrari 488 Pista and how he brought it to life in an interview with shootonline.