Adventure Mask: how to get from parkour to innovation in cinema

Some time ago I published an excerpt from the Hardcore movie by Ilya Naishuller, the first action movie made in the first person. To find out more about this, I wrote to Sergei Valyaev, the producer of the film, one of the “bodies” who played the main character and the park driver. For filming "Hardcore" they have developed a special kit, featuring a new way of attaching the mask to the head: near the mouth.

The idea of ​​shooting a POV was born in 2007, but then there was no technology for that. Once I bought an analog surveillance camera, connected it to a signal converter to be able to record on digital media. I attached it to the cap, and threw a ton of wires into the backpack - and so took off my first video - but it was of terrifying quality. Then I took a motorcycle helmet from my friends and redid it. Even then, I had the understanding that in order to create a presence effect, it was necessary to mount the camera not on the forehead, but on the jaw. The higher the camera, the less torso she sees. But with such a motorcycle helmet it was hard to run and I put aside these ideas until better times. And then went out goupro. And by luck I bought it (Ilya (Naishuller - director of "Hardcore")) and lent me a couple of days ... I ran, took the material with my jumps ... and Ilyukha so much that he suggested that he should stir up the video for his group. Well, then we began to write the script and think about how to fix the camera. As a result, we bought a predator airsoft mask, cut it out and began to shoot the first clip .

But since it was not intended for the camera, it was wildly uncomfortable in her: her face was sweating very much, I was chewing my cheeks, and the image was shaking. When we started to shoot the second clip, I slowly began to design a special fastener for the camera. To the surprise of the world nothing like this existed. And since I am a designer, I have been involved in parkour for 10 years and for many years I dreamed of shooting in exactly this format, I started working on the mount and pulled my team into this business.
And then the video made a noise, Ilya called and said that we would make a film. Then there was an additional motivation to accelerate the development of the mask.

Shooting "Hardcore": Sergey Valyaev at work
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Despite the fact that the camera mount near the forehead seems more natural, when you try to look down, almost the entire body falls out of the frame. It is the mount near the mouth that allows you to create a real presence effect, which glorified the creators of the video “Bad Motherfucker” and allowed you to shoot the world's first POV action movie. The body kit, which allowed it to be removed, under the name Adventure Mask, can now be bought by anyone .

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