rendezvous footage

[A4069]

what kind of kit would you need to film something like this? and any idea of cost? the results can be very effective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3sbxn8JPvw

classic video!

[NiceCupOfTea]

I would think a £100 dogcam or equivalent mounted low down at the front of the car and a shielded mike would do the trick.

Just watched it again. Great stuff - it's the sound that does it for me, all the double-declutching etc. Listen through the tunnel at 3.40! ISTR it's a Ferrari, certainly sounds like a flat plane V8. Some of the risks he takes are incredible, especially going flat through unsighted red lit junctions and the tight blind bends later in the film. Could have gone so wrong so many times, no way you could make that film now...

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Saturday 31st December 20:08

[A4069]

good call, thanks. this looks just the thing:

http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/motorsports-car-camer...

NiceCupOfTea said:

I would think a £100 dogcam or equivalent mounted low down at the front of the car and a shielded mike would do the trick.

[v8will]

Is a Go Pro not the modern choice?

[m444ttb]

v8will said:

Is a Go Pro not the modern choice?

Certainly the in thing! I do love mine

[NateWM]

You would also need balls of steel, and total disregard for the Police, and the safety of yourself and others surrounding you.

[davepoth]

NiceCupOfTea said:

I would think a £100 dogcam or equivalent mounted low down at the front of the car and a shielded mike would do the trick.

Just watched it again. Great stuff - it's the sound that does it for me, all the double-declutching etc. Listen through the tunnel at 3.40! ISTR it's a Ferrari, certainly sounds like a flat plane V8. Some of the risks he takes are incredible, especially going flat through unsighted red lit junctions and the tight blind bends later in the film. Could have gone so wrong so many times, no way you could make that film now...

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Saturday 31st December 20:08

It's dubbed, they used the director's Mercedes SEL for it. IIRC they had spotters at a couple of junctions. The soundtrack makes it seem quicker than it is. There's plenty around the internet about how quick it actually is.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I saw a version with a parallel window with google maps in it showing where they'd been. It must have been bloody hard to dub in the days before computer editing...

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Saturday 31st December 21:15

[SystemParanoia]

you could watch getaway in stockholm

[carl_w]

Low-mounted cameras always increase the sense of speed. However, I doubt you'd be able to recreate this using an HDPro -- whatever they're using seems to have a serious amount of stabilization (either that or the roads in Paris are like a billiard table). You could probably achieve quite a bit of it with professional editing software, I guess.

[davepoth]

carl_w said:

Low-mounted cameras always increase the sense of speed. However, I doubt you'd be able to recreate this using an HDPro -- whatever they're using seems to have a serious amount of stabilization (either that or the roads in Paris are like a billiard table). You could probably achieve quite a bit of it with professional editing software, I guess.

Just some scaf. The Mercedes they used would have had some seriously cushy suspension though.

Edited by davepoth on Saturday 31st December 22:52

[A4069]

bit more than just some scaf?

http://retropopplanet.com/2010/11/26/cetait-un-ren...

anyway, dear rolls royce, this may seem an unusual request but i wondered if...

davepoth said:

[img]http://retropopplanet.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/rendezvous.jpg?w=600&h=394/img]

Just some scaf. The Mercedes they used would have had some seriously cushy suspension though.

[Matt p]

SystemParanoia said:

you could watch getaway in stockholm

Awesome set of films!.