Shooting an Aston Martin in the Scottish Highlands helped put film-maker Sam Riley on the map -
launch taking place up near Inverness and we managed to convince those who needed convincing that if we could film both things on the trip then it would be an excellent use of time.
‘The timetable was the usual rush,’ recalls Sam. ‘We drove up on a Tuesday, I think, and shot the opening scenes on the west coast of Scotland before driving across to Perth. We then shot most of the film in the Cairngorms on the Wednesday. Then we filmed the BMW i8 in a different location on the Thursday morning and afternoon, before collecting the Aston again and going back to the Cairngorms to get more footage that evening. It was the middle of summer so we could shoot until after 11pm.
‘Pretty much the last things that we filmed were the dream sequence shots of walking up to the Aston and then driving off in slow motion with a healthy dose of tyre smoke. We didn’t have a gimbal, so to get the smooth tracking we bolted the big camera onto the bonnet of myI also remember someone asking me later what sort of drone Sam had used to get the big, high-perspective scenery shots. I had to tell them that we didn’t have a drone, Sam just walked up a big hill with his camera and tripod.
‘Anyway, as there was no time pressure the edit kept being put on the back-burner, so it wasn’t until nine months later that the film came out. Aston absolutely loved it though, and I remember them talking to me at whatever the next motor show was. When I went freelance a couple of years later some of the first work I did that really helped me get off the ground was with
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