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Topic: Accident Reconstruction Help
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NJRFilms
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posted 05-31-2000 04:49 PM
I may be doing an accident reconstruction sometime in the near futare for a court case. Anyone have any tips. They are going to have a chase car with me in it with my glidecam and then Ill probably setup some tripoded cams. Most likly this will be a one shot deal, so Ill go and photograph where it will happen so I can Have a good idea of what it looks like. Does anyone have any tips of how to do this? Should it have a bunch of different angles, etc, or should it be more just of the chase car?
Also any tips on riding in the back of a pickup truck with a glide cam? If I made that PVC track dolly, could i tie it to the chase car and have it pull the dolly? Woudl that work at high speeds? I want this to look raelly good so that I can get some more buisness doing that, ya know? I only have 2 cameras, only 1 is digital, the other is VHS-C. I could get one other VHS-C from a friend, and maybe a 8mm or 2 from some other friends. Should I get a crap load of cameras? Has anyone ever done or seen an accident recon? Just gimme tips in general! THANKS! |
Movieman21
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posted 06-01-2000 02:04 PM
You have a lot of questions in such a little space. OK, let's see. First of all, you say this is an accident to be right? I seriously hope that you are not planning on crashind the car. Next, as for the camera setups. How many cameras do you have? You do not want to just show the chase car. You want to switch back and forth between both vehicles. As for the dolly, you could pull it, but I would highly not recommended it. It would be very unstable and you could not go fast at all. The camera would rock back and forth and could be thrown from the dolly. Let me know how many cameras you have and what exactly you are trying to do and I will try to help you out further. ------------------
"May the Force be with you." |
NJRFilms
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posted 06-01-2000 06:36 PM
I can get 4, maybe 6 if i REALLY have to.
This is for a court case, and i dont think that they will be crashing the cars. Im just filming it, not really in charge.
I just want to do a professonial job on this so I can do some more wokr like this. |
Movieman21
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posted 06-03-2000 05:16 PM
NJRFilms - Sorry I didn't get back to you right away. I tried to respond yesterday, but my modem bugged out on me. Anyway, here is my idea. Let's assume that you will only have the four cameras. I would put one in each car, and set up a mock stedicam rig on the headrest of the passenger seat. I would have the camera(s) on the rig facing at an angle and slightly down at the driver(s). I would also put one along each piece of road that the cars will be driving. No need to use dollies. When the cars go by, just follow it by swiveling the camera. Make sure to zoom out almost alll the way, this way you get alot of screen time of the cars. When you are shooting, I would say to shoot it in sevaral take, from different angles. It is very important that while filming the cars, you do not get the other cameras in the shot. If you don't want to use the passenger seat idea, then you could build a setup that would attach to the side of the side and the camera would face in through the drivers window. Another way you could do this, is if you are on a large road, just follow the car side by side with another car, use a stedicam held out the window of the film car. For the distance shots of the cars, a good place to shoot would either be on a long straight strech of road, or on the corner of an intersection. One last thing I will suggest, is if there is a building nearby that you could use (or at least get on the roof or top floor of), use it to get a good arial view. It will make the reinactment more interesting, and would show how the two cars are reacting to each other. Any questions, let me know. I hope I have been of some help. Good luck to you, and congratulations on being chosen to do this recreation. |
NJRFilms
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posted 06-04-2000 06:27 PM
thanks a ton movie man! |
Movieman21
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posted 06-04-2000 09:07 PM
No problemo. Hasta la vista, baby!------------------
"May the Force be with you." |
Zumdahl
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posted 06-04-2000 10:18 PM
This may sound absolutely retarded but oh well--Rent the videogame Driver for Playstation. One of the options in the game is constructing a chase scene, you are the director. You get an unlimited amount of cameras and can play with different angles to see what's hot and what's not. This way you can get a feel for what camera shots would look good and what wouldn't. And how long you should stay on a shot to make the whole chase scene interesting.
On a side note: One of my personal favorite shots used in chase scenes is the ground shot where both cars travel towards and over the camera. Hope this helps you in some way shape or form. Later,
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