Many would just dream of a chance to fly in a fighter jet plane. John Cameron did a couple of times recently while shooting a promotional video for a U.S.
company that trains aviators in fighter jets. The producer/director and owner of Calgary-based META Productions was contracted to produce, edit and provide visual effects and colour finishing for the film that was shot in Phoenix, AZ. Air-to-air footage of a T-33 film jet filming two L-39 fighter jets through different maneuvers, while Cameron was inside one as cameraman shooting the pilot.
The film will be used to persuade clients from Kuwait, Indonesia and other foreign nationals to train at the Arizona Fox 3 school. Not the first time Cameron has filmed jets, he also completed air-to-air production shoots involving fighter jets in loop and barrel rolls flying out of Springbank Airport over the Rockies. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario with his undergrad in biochemistry and psychology and a further degree in new media from Sheridan College, he returned to Calgary and worked on a number of exciting projects, including several for ESPN, before starting his own company in 2013.
His business partner Christopher Petry has over 20 years of experience in the film and television industry that includes serving as producer in a creative role over 40 episodes of television, and a rotating director on the Warner Brothers series “Smallville”. Today META is a full-service production and post-production house .
