I also just re-read your description of the shot. Have you actually done a "test flight" of this path? If not, I'm not sure you realize how difficult/impossible it would be to pull off a shot like that in a Cessnea, or in
any fixed-wing airplane.
Firstly, it sounds like this is all one continuous shot. No room for mistakes. Secondly, I don't know what your project is, but an airplane can't simply swoop around in a circle around someone on the ground... at least not quickly. That counter-clockwise circle around your talent would likely take several
minutes and even if the plane was as low as possible (500ft AGL), it would still horizontally be a lot lot
lot farther away from the talent than that. I mean like a half mile, or more. A 172 can't spin around in a tight circle like that. It just can't.
Wrong tool for the job. You are going to either have to
get the right tool, or completely re-write the requirements of the shot to correspond with what the equipment you
do have
can do. That's all there is to it, and not to be blunt, but talking it to death is not going to force it to happen... if you want usable results.
T2
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Todd Terry
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