We met first in school, discussing interview questions to ask the car enthusiasts. 2 of the agreed participants pulled out at the last minute, but luckily Stevie's friend had called another friend to come along with his ride. Josh was there to help us with the camera work. The weather was very nice to us, despite an onset of rain clouds blowing towards the Docklands, our location for the shoot.
We reached Docklands at 430pm, half an hour ahead of the agreed meeting time. Stevie and Josh set up the cameras, Michelle tested the mic while I went around looking at the angles to take good photos.
here are some pre-shoot photos while waiting for our participants to arrive..
(click on the photos to enlarge!)
the participants arrive on the dot at 6.. we had skyliners, an evo 8 and a civic showing up. All of them classic street racing cars and the excitement could be felt. Michelle wasted no time interviewing the drivers, Stevie and Josh got down to their camera work while I went around snapping shots of the cars.
We had them driving them down the dirt road for some nice camera angle shots at one point. The first take went really well and Stevie wanted to take another shot for safety reasons. But then was when 2 security guards showing up out of nowhere and they stopped us. Everyone was stunned because no one saw them coming! They had just appeared *snap* just like that!
'Is that clown gonna drive by again?! This is bloody private property!' They said they had called the cops, but we were pretty sure that they were empty threats and just wanted us to leave. Just as we were exiting the Docklands, the rain started pouring. We re-grouped at St Kilda's but the rain was still unforgiving. Most of the drivers had to leave for other appointments.. so Stevie had them drive down another empty road while he filmed them driving by.
We went to another empty car park and got down a few more shots before we wrapped it up. The interviews with the drivers went really well, they had alot of material to say (i think we probably clocked close to 20-25 mins worth of interview). When I got back home, some of the shots turned out great (i shot 100plus shots, but according to the rule of photography, 0 or 1 shots out of 100 photos will be good) but still need a little tweaking here and there.
I guess as a group, we're satisfied with what we got and all that's left is EDITING EDITING EDITING.. I've done editing in the past and I've pulled my hair out even when producing a simple 3 min promo video for church back home. Yet again, I'm confident that we'll be able to produce a flashy 6 min video that everyone will look in awe and say 'great job!'
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