{"id":12218,"date":"2016-02-18T02:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2016-02-18T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T21:56:02","slug":"the-making-of-the-ok-go-video-in-weightlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12218","title":{"rendered":"The making of the OK Go video in weightlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/okgo\/?fref=photo\" target=\"_blank\">OK Go<\/a> music video for <em>Upside Down &amp; Inside Out<\/em> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12193\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>) was made using a Russian aircraft flying parabolic trajectories:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-director-of-that-amazing-zero-g-ok-go-video-tells-u-1759201981\">How OK Go Made That Amazing Zero-G Video &#8211; Jalopnik<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video also is about the making of the Upside Down&#8230; video:<\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Update<\/strong>: The original 30+ minute video went down due to copyright issues. Here is a shorter one about the making of the video.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pnTqZ68fI7Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also this\u00a0translated press release from S7 Airlines about the video: <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s7.ru%2Fhome%2Fabout%2Fnews%2Fgruppa-ok-go-i-s7-airlines-snyali-pervyy-professionalnyy-muzykalnyy-klip-v-nevesomosti&amp;edit-text=&amp;act=url\">Group OK Go and S7 Airlines [make] the first professional music video in weightlessness &#8211; S7 Airlines (Google Translate)<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Interesting facts from the set &#8230; :<br \/>\n* 3 weeks filming<br \/>\n* 21 flight<br \/>\n* 70 Staff<br \/>\n* 15 professional instructors<br \/>\n* 2 professional air gymnasts<br \/>\n* Crane with a telescopic 7-meter boom, in which the camera was mounted<br \/>\n* about 2000 balls and other props units, which were used during the training and survey flights<br \/>\n* 2 KAMAZ [trucks] for transportation of scenery<\/p>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p>This video shows\u00a0outtakes of several attempts to do\u00a0the final scene with the paint-filled balloon:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRhchsKmoPg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains how the OK Go music video for Upside Down &amp; Inside Out (see earlier post) was made using a Russian aircraft flying parabolic trajectories:\u00a0How OK Go Made That Amazing Zero-G Video &#8211; Jalopnik. This video also is about the making of the Upside Down&#8230; video: [ Update: The original 30+ minute video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The making of the OK Go video in weightlessness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-music","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3b4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12193,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12193","url_meta":{"origin":12218,"position":0},"title":"Video: OK Go makes music weightlessly","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a cool music video of the song\u00a0Upside Down & Inside Out from the band OK Go. 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