Making of Treeverse film is up for streaming

treewill · Oct 11, 2011

Hi All,

Last thursday, Oregon Public Broadcasting (our local PBS) affiliate showed a segment documenting the making of the Treeverse film. It was on the season premiere of the excellent show Oregon Field Guide. The segment is really cool in that it shows the work that went in to getting some of the awesome aerial footage in the film. We had an all star team of arborists doing some amazing rigging work for the shooters, and I'm glad that this captured some of their handiwork.

Check it out at http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/segments/view/1790

Also of note, Treeverse was selected for this year's Banff Mountain Film Festival, and will have an east coast premiere at the Mountainfilm tour stop at the Lincoln Center in NYC: http://www.mountainfilm.org/node/2227

Thanks so much to all of you who contributed to our Kickstarter campaign, and to all of you who have lent us your time and moral support for this project. Now that the film is starting to make the rounds, we'll be sending out 'thank you' packages to our backers soon.

Enjoy!

TLHamel · Oct 11, 2011

Quite the experience. Great job guys! A big pat on the back to all those involved.

Man, I bet that beer tasted good!

LivinHigh · Oct 12, 2011

Looks really cool. Can't wait to see the whole film. Big accoplishment for film crew and climbers.

macrocarpa · Oct 12, 2011

Give us a link to buy the film!

chris_girard · Oct 12, 2011

Awesome work Will!

just_a_tree_guy · Oct 12, 2011

SWEET !!! cant wait to get it !

RopeShield · Oct 13, 2011

Boogles the mind the efforts you all made.

Noble pursuit!

I second the beer comment. Must have been soooo good.

CreTree · Oct 14, 2011

Looks like an awesome film and accomplishment. I thought I saw spikes on one of them at 4:15 and a minute later he says everything we can do to protect the trees.??? I hope I am wrong and I cannot wait to see this film.

cbugg · Oct 14, 2011

you are 100% wrong on the spikes. we were climbing around and not removing good size dead wood as the rigging crew to keep the grove as natural as possible. cambium savers or srt on a large majority of the whole project.

tomthetreeman · Oct 14, 2011

This is awesome, Will. Can't wait to see the film itself! Glad you did a 'making of' video, though, it really shows what it takes to do what you did AND to document it!

-Tom

CreTree · Oct 14, 2011

Cool! I was thinking it may have been a Pantin, but was hard to see in the clip. I really look forward to seeing this whole movie.

Gerald_Beranek · Oct 14, 2011

Congrat's are in order. Cool effort and excellent camera work. What's next?

Adkpk · Oct 15, 2011

Nice job. Casimo would have been proud, "The Baron in the Trees", by Italo Calvino.

treewill · Oct 17, 2011

Thanks for all the kind words guys. And yes, you have no idea how sweet that beer was when we finally got back to the ground.

Don't know when the film will be available for sale. It'll be on the film festival circuit for a while, but the folks who backed us on kickstarter will get a DVD soon.

Scotty · Oct 19, 2011

what did you do when you had to go to the bathroom???

lumberjackson · Nov 4, 2011

I showed that to some friends, and somebody wanted to know why did you guys choose to do it the time of year that you did?

It is always inspiring to watch the trailer, I cant wait for the movie!

Jackson

treewill · Nov 5, 2011

Hey Jackson,
Part of our choice of scheduling had to do with convenience; we filmed in late March, and in late April Brian moved to Hong Kong and I went to Indonesia for the summer. Also, we wanted to do it when the trees didn't have leaves (for better filming,) and this was about the latest in the year that we could go for that.

Scotty,
We used bigwall climbing methods. The film does deal with that, though thankfully it doesn't go into too much detail.