Nissan - Maxima

Filmed inside a photobubble inside the Tustin Blimp hangers.

Many firsts on this shoot! Our first time using the RED camera, the first time we got to shoot in the Tustin Blimp Hanger and the first time we used a Photobubble.

 Tustin Marine Corps Air Station was first commissioned in 1942 as a base for the Navy's LTA (Lighter Than Air) Blimps.The two blimp hangars, built at the 1942 cost of $2.5 million each, were the largest unsupported wooden structures in the world. Each hangar stood 18 stories tall — 1,088 feet long, 178 feet high, and 297 feet wide. The hangars were so large that they generate their own weather system inside the buildings.

In 1999, the base was closed as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1991. One of the hangars was named a National Historical Landmark and will be preserved. The other is about be torn down in deference to fiscal and commercial presssures. many commercials and movies have used the hangers as a location including: HBO's From Earth to the Moon, JAG, The X-Files and Austin Powers, 

For our shoot we used a Photobubble, this is a huge structure entirely supported by slightly elevated air pressure. One side of the bubble was made from white plastic and the other black, effectively giving us two huge indoor stages within which we could drive the Maxima and a camera car with a russian arm camera mount system.

M2G Produced this short 'Behind the Scenes' documentary about the shoot. Click on the image to the left to watch.

At the end of the shoot the bubble was brought down in a few seconds click on the picture to the left to watch.

The day of the launch finally arrived! If you click on the left you can watch the video as it was seen at the New York Auto Show.