Ryan Elder
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Well basically these killers are chasing a woman through the park, cause the character knows too much and they want to silent her. She calls the police, and the main character, a cop, gets the call, and realizes that it’s his case and he goes to the park to look for her to an intervene before it’s too late. So it’s a lot more than just running, but a chase, and hide and seek game, told from different character’s perspectives, which leads to a fight, a gun stand off, and some shootings. So it would take quite a while to shoot in my experience, with shooting action scenes before.
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Oh okay, the way I screwed up the DIY boompole is that the painter’s pole makes noise when booming from actor to actor, since they are not built to be quiet while recording dialogue.
And the DIY steadicam I made, just didn’t work well, balance wise, cause I couldn’t get the weights exactly the right weight, for when switching lenses.
What about this car mount, which is priced pretty cheap:
https://www.proaim.com/camtree-gripper-campod-suction-car-mount.html
Would that get the shot I am looking for? If not I could try DIY.
I also want to hook the mount onto the windshield and get a front close up of the driver. I want to get the close up shot on an 85mm lens, kind of like the shot in The French Connection. However, would there be too much shake with an 85mm or would the audience assume that is natural of the shot, since it’s a car?
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Actually I was watching other car shots in movies to compared and I watched the one in Terminator 2 and I noticed how it looked like the camera was moving from side to side during the two shot.
It looked as though it might have been shot by mounting the camera to another car and then driving that car lined up with the other car. Is that how they shot it though?
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Also, in the previous posts it was said that I cannot get a two shot, but mounting the fat gecko on the inside of the car. But what if I mount it on the outside, pointed through the window, but on the outside, will that help any?
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Okay thanks, but the problem with shooting that early in the morning is that the light changes after an hour. Most scene shoots can take up to six or more hours, especially if it’s a big scene with lots going on as is this, so I am going to need more than an hour in the morning to shoot it though.
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I was told before that I would have a lot less hassle in equipment failure if I just buy pro instead of going DIY all the time, like I did wit the boompole and steadicam. Do you think that’s true, and that with pro, you get what you pay for, or is DIY equipment just good, even if it means having more maintenance after scene shoots?
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Oh okay. Everytime I go DIY, the equipment always falls apart, needs repares, or they make noise when trying to record dialogue.
So I don’t know if I trust my own equipment compared to professional. I tried the DIY boompole, made too much noise, and needed too much maintenance, as well as the DIY steadicam I tried building. I can try to go DIY for the car mount, just afraid it will fail, resulting in a broken camera and lens.
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Okay thanks. In the example you posted, looks like it might have some barrel distortion in compared to the example I posted.
I looked up the hostess tray and it is quite a bit more money for me. What is it about that one that can get me a two shot compared to the fat gecko? Why can’t the suction mounts get a two shot, as you say?
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Okay thanks! What about the establishment of the new location, how do I keep that from being jarring?
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Actually I may have misunderstood. It was said before that the shots in the movie were pan and scanned. So when you say that it is 100mm plus, do you mean for a full frame camera, or for a pan and scanned image?