Though it seems like an unwieldy piece of gear, we brought in the Titan Crane to streamline the production. With the camera mounted to the arm, via the Libra gyro-stabilized head, we could not only drive along dirt roads to film running horses in motion, we could fly the camera over the action, sweep along with it, or simply operate it like a big tripod. The Libra smoothed out the bumps and rattles and kept the camera horizon always level. It was a fantastic solution that really helped the crew to move faster and capture more dynamic images. 
But all was not well on the ranch; the dark clouds rolled in, literally, and stayed. Few things are as painful - and wastefully expensive - as marshalling an entire crew into the empty grasslands in the pre-dawn darkness, only to sit and stare at the blanket-thick overcast till noon before finally calling the shoot without rolling a frame. For several days in a row. Maddening!
On top of this, we had myriad technical problems. All three camera bodies had troubles, as did several lenses and a magazine, and by the end of the shoot we had lost video assist. Our 50,000-watt Soft Sun arrived with its $10,000 bulb broken. The massive generator we needed to power it and other lights broke down. Its replacements, three in total, all broke down as well! The fifth one finally survived till the end of the shoot.
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