It isn’t uncommon for entertainment riggers to work long days under enormous pressure.
Sherlock Holmes, Mad Max 4: Fury Road, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and many more. In 2001, Beck started his own specialized rigging company—Inmotion Rigging—based in Arundel Old, Australia, with an additional location in Inglewood, California. Inmotion caters to the film and entertainment industry, working all around the world to provide creative and unique rigging solutions for both stunt and camera departments, game shows, live circus, and aerial entertainment. We got ahold of Beck while he jumped through time
zones between California and Australia late last year. Instantly likable, here’s what he had to say.
WRE: You’re one of the most notable names in the industry. Can you give us a quick run-down of your job description day-to-day, and how you landed within this line of work?
Beck: My title is either Stunt Rigging Coordinator or just Stunt Coordinator. Working on a film that is heavily weighted with rigging-related stunts means that on a day-to-day basis, I would be either designing rigs from the storyboards or pre-visualization, doing safety reports, overseeing rigs going up, rehearsing, or filming. With more complex rigs, there’s a lot of time just thinking about how you can achieve what the director is asking.
WRE: Before stunt rigging, your career, while equally cool, was somewhat different.
Beck: I started out as a tree climber (Arborist) back in 1987. I pretty much spent ten solid years climbing trees, rocks, and mountains around the world. In 1997, I started in the film industry as a stunt performer—just when rigging and wirework was taking off. Te Matrix
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