Idea for you guys

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:56 pm

I had an idea of a short clip Im going to do and I was going to offer it to you guys too so that we could compare and colaborate...

Okay heres the idea... get in a car aim your camera out the window and film some stuff you think is interesting use whatever camera angles and blah that you like. The only thing is all the shots need to be done from a car. Then you just edit the footage together to a song. The thing is instead of doing it to your favorite song choose a song that changes alot in speed and direction to make your little clip interesting.

The thing is ive been in a car alot of times just staring out the window and a song will come along that fits the mood and motion of the car perfectly. An example is Classical Gas that song is perfect for moving in a car.

When your done you choose a different song and edit to it again. Just burn a pile of songs to a CD and test them out driving its really interesting.

UFProductions · Post by **UFProductions** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:59 pm

Does the camera have to stay inside the car, or can it be attached to the outside or held out too? I like this idea a lot, I was thinking about doing a car chase on my way to school today: Goretex Weather Report by Shining comes to mind.

ctbullet · Post by **ctbullet** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:03 pm

next time i'm in a car i'll give it a go,

songs wise i'll have to have a good think, it's difficult, depends on your mood at the time i suppose

smokeythebear · Post by **smokeythebear** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:05 pm

PLease post all your guys work.

SgtPadrino · Post by **SgtPadrino** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:38 pm

Oh God I can't even count how many times I've done this... guess I should dig through some stuff and post one of my favorites...

youngfilmmaker · Post by **youngfilmmaker** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:58 am

LoL

That will be fun. I will see if i can attempt that

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:43 am

I'll give it a shot once finals are out.

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:15 am

Finals are over for me and I'm home... I might give it a go.

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:12 am

Its nothing special just a fun thing to do. To show you that you can edit the same thing in 10 different ways and the rythym of music can help you out. You can point the camera outside the window do whatever you like but I was hoping more to concentrate on movment of stuff. so interesting things like how a streetsign moves as you change perspective at that speed. I haven't been driving anywhere but im going shopping for a tablet today so Ill start shooting then.

Mr.Anderson · Post by **Mr.Anderson** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:32 pm

Ive thought about/wanted to do that for a long time. Now I think I will. Driving through a busy downtown city area would be the most interesting.

Lawriejaffa · Post by **Lawriejaffa** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:08 pm

Film school with Aaron hehe,

Well yep the kuleshov effect, is very much like this, hehe

Kuleshov, a russian filmmaker experimented with things like montage early on.

I suggest you check his experiments out to see, pretty much what you dudes are attempting here.

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:59 pm

lol oh man it rained today.... can anyone say pull focus to raindrops on glass? lol how film school is that?

Lawriejaffa somebodys gotta teach these kids how to use their little handycams instead of waving it around in their backyard.

Lawriejaffa · Post by **Lawriejaffa** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:20 pm

Yeah, but you can't teach some of them aaron to be humble, to drop the attitude or a host of other inherent problems that are even worse than handycam-ness hehe.

One filmmaker i talked to said, that with digital filmmaking, (or with using camcorders) people feel tempted to 'hoover' their shots, (yeah like the hoover hehe if that expression makes sense) rather than set up shots etc.

I mean im not all that great or anything, but what annoys me most is when would be filmmakers try to recreate the show they saw last night on sky-1 or (FOX) etc etc, i find lack of imagination particularly grim - anyway now im ranting!

ctbullet · Post by **ctbullet** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:55 pm

Lawriejaffa wrote: people feel tempted to 'hoover' their shots,

not a clue what you mean

Lawriejaffa · Post by **Lawriejaffa** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:05 pm

Its like doing the hoovering in the house, yeah, its a loose expression for the way people just shoot everything with a video cam, as if they were hoovering around a room, just like their shooting everything, without structure, or composition or planning. Its often a joke related to things like certain documentary styles of filmaking where the cameras wobbling everywhere, but without much point.

If you still don't have a clue then i can't save you!

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:48 am

Hovering?

I was trying to figure out what Herbert Hoover did that could be translated into something about filmmaking.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:25 pm

Well I just got back from driving around the city with a camera setup in the passenger seat. That was interesting. I even got interrogated by a security guard.

Now I get to see if I got anything good at all...

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