dc chavez – the BLOG

In the wake of Dubai we headed into pre-production for a 10 day, 3 state shoot for BF Goodrich Tires. When I say we, once again Will Roegge and I grabbed a team of guys and hopped a plane to the East Coast. We started at Virginia International Raceway for two days of shooting, POV work, rigs shots, interviews and lots of stills with our boy Linhbergh. All the content we generated is slated for the relaunch of the BFG site that is dropping soon.  Here are some screencaps from Virginia:

We took advantage of some of the beautiful country roads between Richmond and VIR:

Virginia Road Trip- The drive to VIR

Virginia Road Trip- The drive to VIR

Then we got to VIR- lets just say we went through a few sets of tires during production…

Virginia International Raceway- Burning Tires

One major success from the weekend was developing a new system for time lapses on a track:

Virginia International Raceway- Time Lapse

Even Will got to get behind the wheel for a bit for part of the filming:

Virginia International Raceway- On Track Action

From VA, we hopped a plane to Burlington, VT – home of great cheese, food and LOTS OF SNOW. We happened to land in VT as the storm of the decade came through- see below:

Snowpocalypse 2011, Burlington, VT

The client was worried that we were not going to have snow for the shoot, needless to say, we had lots. We had the chance to film at the BFG Winter Driving School, Vermont Sports Car, Team O’Neill Rally School and some beautiful VT / NH countryside.

Team O'Neill Rally School

Team O'Neill Rally School

After coming back to Vermont, we got to shoot at Vermont Sports car, the birthplace of US Rally Prepped Subarus:

Vermont Sports Car

After we wrapped shooting the storm hit… HARD. We got stuck in VT for another 48 hours… Not all bad though, as we took advantage of the 26″ of fresh snow and went snowboarding!

Snowboarding at Stowe, VT

Final video clips should be up sometime mid-June.

Here is Will’s account of the trip.

A few weeks ago I was up at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb filming for Jeff Zwart and his Luminox Porsche GT3 Cup car with my bro Will Roegge. Jeff ended up setting a new world record in the Time Attack Class with a time of 11:31.095 – 30 seconds faster than the previous record holder, Rhys Millen. It was a big deal for me to shoot for such an accomplished Director, Author, Photographer and driver, so I had to step up my game. This proved to be a difficult task with 2:30AM call times, 7-11 breakfasts, between 11,000 and 14,000 feet elevation, crazy temperature swings etc. etc. etc. The “glamorous life” of a photographer!

While I was there, I met a really nice guy Brandon Parker that was a part of the 15+ person Red Bull Moving Images video crew. Upon checking out his site I saw he did something really cool- upload screencaps from recent projects before the final edits were cut. Post production usually takes a while, so these screenshots show some of the work in a timely manner. Will should have the video cut soon, and I will post the final video when its all said and done.

So, here are some of what I was capturing on the mountain with my camera at the 2010 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

PPIHC 2010- Early Morning Testing

Click here to see the rest of the screencaps!!!