Blog Post #44 - Recording Driveway Scene

My opening two minutes end with the car of the detectives driving down the road after the detectives walk out of the house and get into the car. This scene works as a transition into the next major scene that would exist, where the detectives are driving in the car. This also helps to show who the leading detective is, as Ed is the driver of the car, giving him more authority. 


This is the car I will be using for this scene—



I am shooting for this scene to take around 20-30 seconds. This is so I have enough time for everything else to fit into my project, and to nicely wrap up the 2 minutes I need.


To record this scene, we had the camera placed right off of the driveway, and track the car as it moves out of the driveway, and away from the office down the road. Since I was using my parents' car, I had to rush this scene and only had limited attempts to get it right. Below is my first attempt trying to record this scene.




During this shot, Fern and I had trouble getting into and starting the car. When I got into the car, the hat I was wearing as part of my detective outfit fell off, due to it making me too tall compared to the car roof. This caused the hat to fall down underneath the wheel, and me to scramble down to find it. Along with this, due to a lack of preparation, I was too close to the wheel, causing a further delay before we could continue with the scene. By the time I started backing out of the driveway, we had realized we had taken too long, and I would benefit from just reshooting the scene with this newfound knowledge.


Below is the second attempt of this scene.



In this scene, I improved on the last scene, getting out of the driveway quicker and then successfully driving away. However, this shot is too long, totaling at a whopping 45 seconds, which is way over my allocated 20-30 seconds. In this shot, I like the tracking aspect as the car goes down the driveway, and how the car is obscured by the tree towards the end. I will be able to cut down this shot in post-production to make it shorter, and I feel this is the shot I will use at the end. of my project.

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