I could pretend that it was me in the white jumpsuit; the truth is I was standing 5,000 feet below the helicopter wishing I had not given up smoking in 1995. We had one chance - a little over 3 minutes of jump time - to capture the footage we needed to make our film. The client, South Korean electronics colossus LG, was excited about seeing their logo (and their latest washing machine) on 2 massive banners. But we only had one jump, the type on the banner was never going to be easy to read and we were running out of time - pulled down by the massive weight of the banners, the jumpers were hurtling to earth far faster than any of us had imagined.
It took a long stroll around Berlin's beautiful, thought-provoking Holocaust Memorial for my heartbeat to return to normal. It was a crazy, scary day and a totally new experience for me. We are delighted with the result and I am ready to do something similar soon.
And next time maybe it will be me in the white jumpsuit.
The team of jumpers - 2 carrying the banners and 2 cameramen - were fantastically professional. Ice cool before the jump and good fun after it, they drove all night to get to Berlin from the Midlands, did the jump and drove straight back home again. Their landing was pinpoint perfect, right in the centre of the prescribed landing zone. If anything their camerawork was even better - they captured everything we needed on their helmet-mounted HD cameras while managing not to plummet to their deaths. The lead jumper, a dare-devil with more than 14,000 jumps to his name, declared it the scariest thing he had ever done in his life.
It took a long stroll around Berlin's beautiful, thought-provoking Holocaust Memorial for my heartbeat to return to normal. It was a crazy, scary day and a totally new experience for me. We are delighted with the result and I am ready to do something similar soon.
And next time maybe it will be me in the white jumpsuit.
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