
Okay, so what do you do when the script calls for a re-enactment of a person being thrown off a cliff? Well, the the traditional way is to dress up a dummy, set up multiple camera angles to capture the action. throw the dummy over the edge of the cliff and shoot it while it falls. But seriously, that’s been done before hundreds of times and quite honestly it never looks that good. Another option, is to recreate it in post, however unless you have an infinite budget the results are cheesy video game quality. So, what do you do? Ron Hill the owner of RHI didn’t think twice before coming up with the solution. You simply chuck a camera off a cliff, control it’s decent and make sure it flies straight. This is exactly what we did and we will show you how to do it. But if you don’t want to throw your camera off a cliff, call us and we will throw off one of ours.
First off you will need to gather some materials:
1 HD Action Sports Camera ( has to be HD, SD is so yesterday)
1 Roll of gaffers Tape (preferable Black)
1 Lawn Dart (preferably blue with tip removed)
1 Model Rocket Parachute (Not to big, The camera needs to drop fast in order to look real)
Now, all you have to do is tape the camera to the dart, the dart to the parachute, have hired help
carefully approach the edge of the cliff and…and let it fly….oh and don’t forget to hit record, you may only get one chance at this.

