The Chase Is On!

Today we began to film the most dramatic part of our film, the car chase. This was a huge amount of fun to create and we hope it turns out to as we planned. To film, we used a camera car. This allowed us to drive naturally and also to capture the chase in open air, rather than through windows. The rough footage we shot today was brilliant to watch back and we should be able to cut it into a really slick piece of film.

At first we had a few problems with keeping the camera stable whilst out of the car, however we then sorted this out by using a Gorilla Pod. It is a from of tripod with flexible legs which allow it to be clamped onto lots of different objects.


Using the Gorilla Pod we were able to attatch our camera to the surround of the boot and get some great shots from a low level.

The other shots we did involved a regualr tripod and our cameraman being out of the roof. Once again this started with a few issues of camera stability but we enentually sorted this by altering the way our cameraman was stood.

One of the other great shots we took involved our cars being overtaken by the camera car. This was a great effect which proved difficult to shoot because of the way our cameraman had to rotate as he sped past us. This was difficult at first and the cars exited frame the 1st few times, but after that we got the technique right and made the shots look great.

All of our photos to date are available on our PhotoBucket Page. The address is below and in the Link List at the top left of the blog.

http://photobucket.com/manflick