Legend of the Seas
July 05
As most people probably don’t know, some of the largest ships in the world are built in Turku, Finland. I didn’t know this either — at least not until recently, when I was assigned to shoot a time-lapse of the Legend of the Seas, a 365-meter-long titan.
A massive glass spherical roof was being installed using a 120-meter-tall goliath crane, supplied by Konecranes.
I had worked with this client before, producing a short video earlier this year showcasing their cranes — but never on a project of this scale.
There was only had one shot at getting it right. I used a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, and for a second angle a Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K.
The whole process was surprisingly slow, taking about an hour — but in the final footage, the time-lapse lasts just around 11 seconds and almost looks like something out of a video game.
The scale of the operation, and the sheer size of the machinery, makes you feel incredibly small. Technology never ceases to amaze me — and it really makes you wonder what we’ll be capable of in the next hundred years.
