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9 years, 9 months ago - Yen Rickeard

Tom;s ideas are great, and it will vary the visuals and location and so make it more interesting.
Then, while it is hard to rig the car securely with a camera on the bonnet or out of the window, it is==can be done quite cheaply. How far do they drive? Does night fall> It would be much easier to do the garage shots if it is night. You can fit a couple of 'brake light' onto a bar, and giide them past the windows, or flash a light across the car to show passing street light.

9 years, 9 months ago - Tom James

To offer an alternative voice. Could you capture a bit of their intimacy, excitement and passion before they get into the car? Since the act of running away with your lover really takes place much earlier than physically getting into a car and driving off (which is really the last bit). Seen the graduate?

Could you shoot a sequence that demonstrates all of the above before/as they get into the car? Packing. Scheming. Planning. If they break down. If this sequence ends with them getting into the car and driving off - then cutting to them broken down makes everything much more immediate.

Budget or no budget, you're limited by what you can shoot in a car. Short of the obvious - how intimate and passionate can you be whilst driving?

Or for a more generic solution. do a composite. If you're careful with your shots, you can make them very convincing these days.

9 years, 9 months ago - Steve Lawson

A trick I used recently was to rig up a camera on the car dashboard pointing at the front passenger seat and have the actor who is supposed to be driving the car sit in the back seat behind the driver's seat. The other actor sits in the passenger seat and you play out the scene with someone else driving who has valid insurance for the vehicle. Then swap the actors around and the actor who is meant to be driving sits in the passenger seat and pretends to drive (reaching their arms forwards as if gripping the wheel). Then in post you flip the shots of the actor who is "driving" and cut between these shots and the shots of the other character in the passenger seat to create the impression that the actors are sitting next to each other in the front of the car. This way neither actor has to really drive the car but the resulting shots are much more realistic than green screen/back projection. Check out the start of my feature trailer at www.survival-instinct-movie.com to see an example of this technique in use.

9 years, 9 months ago - Matt Jamie

You can get a cheap suction/window mount for a camera which you can put inside the car. The lighter the camera the better, and super wide angle needed as the camera is close to the actors (GoPro or even Iphone would work well if you can match the footage...). Here's an example show a few years back with a Canon 550D - bit heavy for the mount so there's a lot of shake on this but you get the idea: https://youtu.be/TzR4zwIFMDM?t=1m25s (Shot on a few passes with camera mounted opposite sides to focus on each character. Depends a lot on the lens / angle of the window etc as to what you'll get in.

I was using something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CHIC-MALL-Windshield-Suction-Holder/dp/B00LO3GUCO/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1447410356&sr=8-7&keywords=car+windscreen+camera+mount Obviously if you've got a massive/expensive camera you wouldn't want to risk this kind of mount and you might not get the angles, but it's a workaround if you haven't got hours of dialogue in there!