This clip was something I put together last year back when Will Smith's 'I Am Legend' film first appeared at the cinemas and contains footage from the stunt scene which appears in the opening scene of the movie. I'd managed to shoot this from the Empire State Building one Saturday whilst we were in New York in late September/October 2006. They kept shooting this scene over and over again, but I only had the patience to videotape just one of the takes.

Down on the ground where they were filming it was crazy.. No one could get access, the cars and cabs were losing their patience, and if you had a camcorder like me, you weren't allowed to shoot anything. I got in trouble myself once, but what do you expect being a tourist from Australia :) Although high on the Empire State Building they couldn't stop me, and I had a much better view from there too!

The footage itself originally looked pretty rough. I was using a Sony (piece of crap) HC1 back then which had some serious video noise issues, just like a lot of other affordable Sony HD cameras. Thankfully though I've managed to clean it up quite well. Firstly by adding more noise in Vegas to even out the Sony noise and then running it through the Magic Bullet 'Green Pearl' preset. That last one probably helped the most.