We shot some short car scenes for the NBC Universal TV series “GRIMM” as well as car backplates (for green screen) here in Vienna some months ago, and we used a bigger V-Bag to shoot the side window perspectives – my buddy Bobo simply rolled down the window, put the V-Bag around the door and formed a base for the camera – he then held it and it stayed totally in place, which is essential for shooting plates – you don’t want that image to jump around in the back suddenly, when keyed into the green screen backdrop. Shooting something like that would possible be much more difficult if you did it differently (having to put the camera on a car mount on the side, which requires lengthy police permissions here in Austria). We still had to put the camera on a car mount for the backdrop of the back window, but the V-Bag saved us a lot of time for the side window shots.

In all, I am very happy with the new VBag and it goes with me to all my shoots now – it just “lives” in my car and I take it out when I need it (which happened two times last week already!). Very useful and it got me thinking in new perspectives now (plus, those handheld low level shots aren’t handheld and shaky anymore).

The VBag Philip Bloom Edition is now available for $249 or €198 from Vbag.com – they have very generously provided me with a 5% discount code for my readers! Just put in “ninofilm” in the appropriate field on their shop page and the 5% are deducted from your total.