Destination BC: Rainforest to Rockies
This was such a fun project with our long time collaborator, Destination BC, and our new friends at Zulu Alpha Kilo!
It's always special when we get to shoot our hometown, and it was extra fun because we really got to pull out all the stops for this shoot.
The concept of the project is telling the story of a road trip from BC's famous coastal rainforest, to the rugged desert interior. We did this in three phases. Starting off by taking landscape and cityscape images around Vancouver. It's quite unusual for us to shoot without talent in front of the camera, but I had a great time making the landscape and cityscape as characters in our story. Waiting for the first light to hit the tallest building in the city, and the last light during blue hour, for reflection in the water, was such a nice change of pace.
Next phase of the project ramped us up to basically automotive photography and videography. To tell the road trip story, the car was now our main character. Working with our good friends at Alterna Films, we chased our hero car around from the air and on the ground, while capturing the iconic views of the highway leading to gold country. Amy, our rockstar producer, also doubled up as our stunt driver in the hero car. She does very well moving 30km/hour!
Lastly, it was time to put people in front of the camera. We came back to the coast to bring everything together. Now we were shooting the landscape, cityscape, rainforests, beach, mountain, car, and people all together! It was busy to say the least, but we had wonderful support from everyone in front of and behind the cameras. Our long term relationship with our crew, talent, and clients really came in clutch. It's so much easier to elevate things when there is already good creative chemistry amongst everyone. A couple highlights were shutting down parts of the Sea to Sky highway, for our car shots, and the climbing up Jurassic Ridge together. Our last wrap photo, on top of Jurassic ridge at Murrin Lake, says everything about this project. Without prompts, we all howled together with our set dog Devon to cap off a super fun day. We are really truly blessed to be living in such an incredible place and working with our friends to make cool imagery!
BTS and the crew for the day!
