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Chip Brookes
Car rig question, Los Angeles folks

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 w...

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Randall Thomasson

I was going to suggest the local drag strip. :^)

James Felt

You can always go green screen as well.

Chip Brookes

didnt want anyone to think I was ignoring them but - check about 10 comments up, this footage is in the can!

Don Johns

I don't know LA, but what I did was shoot on a dead end road and used a very fast lens inside car to keep light low in car so actor could drive safely. You could also shoot a plate of freeway and proj...

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Ralph Barnette

Car shots are always a challenge; glad to see you got it done. Thanks for the location info.

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