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Barnes - The Mill - Visual FX Supervision
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Storyboard Shot 3
This shot is a POV of the Motorcyclist driving at "modest" speed into the right-hand wing of the hero car.
As discussed this shot takes 2 forms.
Firstly the main beauty shot, with the camera mounted on a quadbike, with handlebars in view low in the frame. A test has been shot, (in reverse and although only a test, the director has a few reservations about the camera work close to the car. The DoP seemed confident that by crash-zooming when the camera is close to the window a lot concerns will be addressed. Also frame cutting and a little zoom on the Neg (during post) will probably help as well.
Secondly, we decided that we should film an additional plate, this time with the window down, allowing the camera to get much closer to the actor. It would probably be our intension to invisibly join this and the beauty shot together, and also add the glass and reflection in the few frames where there are not present.
Finally. to create the impression that the bike is falling to the floor, we decided that we should shoot the handle bar as a plate (in the same environment, blue/green screen not necessary.
I feel that this gives us enough options to crack this shot and the most suitable route can be decided at edit stage.
On the test, the camera and Quad were reflected in the window, for a few frames. Of course there is little we can do to avoid this, and I don't see any problem painting these away.
There is a slight issue about the speedometer reading 30 mph. There appears to be a mixed message here from the "powers that be". We made a desision that the speedo should be framed in shot. If this becomes an issue it will be framed tighter during telecine transfer. If we need to tweak the speedo lever, we will worry about this in post.
As discussed this shot takes 2 forms.
Firstly the main beauty shot, with the camera mounted on a quadbike, with handlebars in view low in the frame. A test has been shot, (in reverse and although only a test, the director has a few reservations about the camera work close to the car. The DoP seemed confident that by crash-zooming when the camera is close to the window a lot concerns will be addressed. Also frame cutting and a little zoom on the Neg (during post) will probably help as well.
Secondly, we decided that we should film an additional plate, this time with the window down, allowing the camera to get much closer to the actor. It would probably be our intension to invisibly join this and the beauty shot together, and also add the glass and reflection in the few frames where there are not present.
Finally. to create the impression that the bike is falling to the floor, we decided that we should shoot the handle bar as a plate (in the same environment, blue/green screen not necessary.
I feel that this gives us enough options to crack this shot and the most suitable route can be decided at edit stage.
On the test, the camera and Quad were reflected in the window, for a few frames. Of course there is little we can do to avoid this, and I don't see any problem painting these away.
There is a slight issue about the speedometer reading 30 mph. There appears to be a mixed message here from the "powers that be". We made a desision that the speedo should be framed in shot. If this becomes an issue it will be framed tighter during telecine transfer. If we need to tweak the speedo lever, we will worry about this in post.
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