Chip Brookes: Actor, director and screenwriter in Los Angeles, California.

Hi Los Angeles friends - asking for your suggestions. Working on a short film - we need to shoot some footage that takes place in a car driving on the freeway after dark. Unfortunately when shooting into the car straight on, the car rigging equipment we have for the camera obscures too much of the windshield to be able to drive safely on a freeway (not to mention could attract a lot of, ahem, attention from our friends in law enforcement). We're looking for a large parking lot or open area we could use to get the car up to a reasonable speed without endangering anyone, preferably something not connected to a business. Any suggestions? The footage is dialogue-free and will be shot MOS, and we only need a few seconds from each angle as it's being cut together in a quick montage. You may have guessed this is an ultra-low budget/DIY production and we love inexpensive, creative solutions (ie, not renting a trailer and just shooting it that way). Any place in the greater LA county area will work. Let me know what you think! And thanks so much.

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