High Speed Filming

Here is how this works in practice. We give high-speed filming services for shoots in the Czech Republic, supplying pro high-frame-rate cameras. The operators trained to run them and the intense lighting that slow-motion capture demands. High-speed work — from elegant product and food photography to dramatic action and impact sequences — needs far more light than standard shooting. Our DPs and gaffers plan lighting packages that deliver the levels a high-frame-rate sensor needs. Barrandov Studios in Prague gives controlled stage environments where high-speed setups can be lit and repeated precisely, while on location our teams adapt the technique to the shot. The Czech crew base is deep and worldwide skilled, trained in part at FAMU, and fluent in the tech workflows that high-speed cinematography involves.

Here is the short of it. High-speed filming in the Czech Republic serves a busy commercial and service-production market. Prague is a long-set up hub for global advertising production. High-speed capture is a routine, well-supported discipline rather than a pro import. Productions drawn here by the Czech Film Fund's 20% cash rebates, administered by the Státní fond kinematografie, use high-speed work for hero shots and action set-pieces, and the country's set up VFX sector — built around Barrandov and studios such as UPP — handles the finishing where high-speed plates feed into composites. We set up the high-speed package with the camera, lighting and grip departments, manage the data workflow that high-frame-rate footage creates, schedule around studio openings, and budget the work in Czech koruna with 21% VAT.