Playing Catch to Come off the Ledge
Published May 14, 2021 · 4:18 · 169,600 views
About This Video
A family emergency consumed five production days. BC Slace: the normally invisible lucky rabbit's foot behind the episodes. Suggested they make a video about playing catch. It was handy for two reasons: Van had acquired some unfamiliar cameras he wanted to test (a five-pound professional camera, a drone, a GoPro, an Insta360, an iPhone 12 Pro), and playing catch is fun.
They threw a GoPro across the field to simulate the ball's path through the air. Too much spin. It didn't work. The Insta360 with its two hemispherical lenses got the shot instead. Even in your mid-40s, an hour of playing catch relieved the stress of the vanished production days. The Dodgers even won the World Series that year. The video is about the simplest possible therapy: the achievable fraternal goals of the perfect throw and the perfect catch.
Transcript
a family emergency sucked up five production days unleashing a stress hell ride upon
this spirited man and that spirited man right there mr
slace suggested they make an episode about playing catch
mr slace is the normally invisible lucky rabbit's foot behind these episodes he introduced
playing catch on set when they were doing an ambitious shoot
out there in joshua tree and this idea mr slace's idea about making a movie about catch well it was a handy idea handy for two reasons first
this spirited man had recently acquired through legal means some unfamiliar cameras and lenses he wanted to try out
and maybe learn how to use this behemoth weighs about five pounds it's the only professional camera
in this spirited man's quiver the wide lens gave the appearance that they were standing far apart
the goal was to fire the ball right into the lens the drone
imagine what this shot would have cost before the invention of the drone
the drone was a gift gopro maybe the best thing to happen to
homemade filmmaking since the imac dv back in 2000 they tried to simulate the ball's path
through the air with the gopro but uh didn't really work
[Music] too much spin there was something giddy about throwing a camera across the field though iphone 12 pro head gray who does our music shoot the footwork there he is
there's gray this camera this insta 360 is a sort of miracle gadget with two hemispherical lenses that shoot the entire universe all at once
by horsing around with the insta360 and some free software this spirited man was indeed able to simulate the baseball's flight
the shot they failed to get with the gopro the second thing that made this idea
mr slace's idea for a movie about playing catch the second thing that made this idea a handy idea
is that playing catch is fun even in your mid-40s playing catch
for an hour or so relieved the stress of the vanished five production days
[Music] so simple so beautiful the snap the achievable fraternal goals of the perfect throw and the perfect catch dodgers even won the world series last year thank you mr slace it worked [Music] onward you
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Canon 1DX essential — primary camera
- DJI drone uses — aerial filming
- GoPro uses — action camera
- iPhone 12 Pro uses — phone camera
- Insta 360 uses — action camera
- iMac DV mentions — older computer referenced
People Referenced
Grey Gersten