MinionZombie
25-Feb-2006, 06:14 PM
First off...unless my brain just melted, I think this is my first "fresh post", as in created by me...or maybe not, anyway...
I was out filming this afternoon, getting some shots together for a short film I'm making with the Rural Media Company to get shown on the BBC Local TV 'Pilot Scheme' (available on Sky TV and online).
Anyway, as I was out I wanted to try something out - I might use the odd snippet or perhaps not, but I thought why not. I wanted to see if I could pull off decent driving shots, so I simply pushed the passenger seat back as far as it would go and erected my tripod in the passenger footwell, then raised the vertical 'pipe' (or whatever you wanna call it) column of the tripod so the camera poked up above the dashboard.
I put two of the three legs so they rested against the passenger seat (to provide better stability) and then proceeded to drive as smoothly as possible - on my part (crap roads are crap roads afterall). This is where single handed driving comes in handy, I kept gear changes swift and smooth and then kept my left hand holding the tripod itself - for extra stability.
Along the roads I was doing no more than 40/45mph, and it wasn't busy - so it's probably better to get someone else to do the driving or shooting, but it can be done alone.
Anyway, I uploaded the footage before dinner and it worked quite well, in fact for once "auto focus" beat manual, occasionally you can pick up some window streaks - so make sure you give the glass a really, really good polish before shooting through the windshield, if shooting out the side window then just roll it down.
There are occasional moments of 'shoogle' (brief shake), but nothing to write home about and generally it's quite smooth - it all depends on the road and how fast you're going, if you had a second person adding full stability to the tripod (rather than one hand on tripod/one hand on wheel Mad Max danger driving, lol) then you should get something pretty decent - essentially the image stays 'in synch' with the cars movements.
Obviously you can't get that car-mount vibe where you can see the side of the car or the front wheel, but if you want to get just what's up ahead coming at you - then I'd suggest doing it that way for no extra cost whatsoever, bosh! :cool: :sneaky:
I was out filming this afternoon, getting some shots together for a short film I'm making with the Rural Media Company to get shown on the BBC Local TV 'Pilot Scheme' (available on Sky TV and online).
Anyway, as I was out I wanted to try something out - I might use the odd snippet or perhaps not, but I thought why not. I wanted to see if I could pull off decent driving shots, so I simply pushed the passenger seat back as far as it would go and erected my tripod in the passenger footwell, then raised the vertical 'pipe' (or whatever you wanna call it) column of the tripod so the camera poked up above the dashboard.
I put two of the three legs so they rested against the passenger seat (to provide better stability) and then proceeded to drive as smoothly as possible - on my part (crap roads are crap roads afterall). This is where single handed driving comes in handy, I kept gear changes swift and smooth and then kept my left hand holding the tripod itself - for extra stability.
Along the roads I was doing no more than 40/45mph, and it wasn't busy - so it's probably better to get someone else to do the driving or shooting, but it can be done alone.
Anyway, I uploaded the footage before dinner and it worked quite well, in fact for once "auto focus" beat manual, occasionally you can pick up some window streaks - so make sure you give the glass a really, really good polish before shooting through the windshield, if shooting out the side window then just roll it down.
There are occasional moments of 'shoogle' (brief shake), but nothing to write home about and generally it's quite smooth - it all depends on the road and how fast you're going, if you had a second person adding full stability to the tripod (rather than one hand on tripod/one hand on wheel Mad Max danger driving, lol) then you should get something pretty decent - essentially the image stays 'in synch' with the cars movements.
Obviously you can't get that car-mount vibe where you can see the side of the car or the front wheel, but if you want to get just what's up ahead coming at you - then I'd suggest doing it that way for no extra cost whatsoever, bosh! :cool: :sneaky: