How to Film Driving Shots | Camera Rigging & Lighting 101
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Easily one of the most grip and production-heavy episodes we've done so far, Valentina and the crew are tackling one of the most common setups in filmmaking - the driving shot. Today, we're going to teach you the most cost-efficient way to professionally set up a car rig.
The key word is safety - everything that we're doing follows all SAG and production regulations, and no expense was spared when it comes to the safety of our talent and crew. That's why we have extra grip rigging, ratchet straps, safety chains, zip ties, a whole lead vehicle for the crew to operate, etc. And of course, our lighting was controlled remotely and battery-powered to give the impressions of street lights, moonlight, sunlight, whatever the situation called for. We prepared two looks for this shot - one during the day and one at night. If you don't have the money to shoot with a moving vehicle like us, hopefully the tips about lighting and camera placement will be helpful when you are shooting other methods for car shots, like poor man's process.
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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Story/Concept
2:06 - Safety/Logistics
3:34 - Rigging
5:27 - Lighting
6:11 - Video Villiage
7:47 - Scene #1
8:19 - Sidus Link
9:17 - Setup #2
12:07 - Final Result
12:39 - Outro
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Poor man's process looks expensive AF 😂
Because it is. Poor man is hand held in the passenger’s seat
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“It’s really dark out here in the streets” that’s some street lingo!
First Jurassic Park. The scene where they have just saved Ian and are running away from the T-rex and we go to the mirror for a glamour shot of Mr. Rex. They could have chosen to show it from Ian's perspective and we would get an amazingly scary moment of a close-up T-rex mouth but instead they decided a) to show Muldoon's perspective; immersing the audience as if they were driving away from the rex. b) probably save a lot of money and time in post. c) I just love the sign in mirror, a little humour in a nerve wrecking scene.
In Extraction (2020) they have this one shot where the camera is outside and the car backs up and does a 180, then the camera seamlessly enters the car through the widow and ends up in the back seat. It was so cool. I think it's creative because it really put me there in the moment and made it seem so real, despite how unreal that cam move was. It surprised me for how well it was done, how it seemed so fluid and natural. As an audience member i wanted to be in the car while they drove through the cramped city, and just as I wanted that boom, the camera flew into the car. It was great!
Great example of a nicely executed hidden cut, I loved that scene
100 percent it was all one 16min take
I like the whole set up from key grip until finished
I love the car scene from Master of None S2E6. It is my favorite use of a car scene in cinema because it is very moving and daring. It is a 5 minute one-take. The first 2 minutes, Dev is talking to his love interest Francesca. When she gets out of the car, you as a viewer feel for Dev. They are perfect together, but they can’t be together. For the remaining 3 minutes, you are alone with Dev in his feelings of regret. It really tests the patience of their audience, first, because nothing happens, but you as a viewer will probably be able to relate to this moment and get a deeper connection to Dev. Brilliant.
I think that shot was massively influenced by a very similar scene from The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins. He also is sitting in the back of a car for like 3 minutes and you see him go through all sorts of emotions very subtly, it's an excellent scene
Baby Driver opening scene. Lot’s of cool small details that all make sense!
Definitely canal scenes car shots from the movie Drive for me. Because it effects some emotions on the audience
The opening scene of Drive 🔥
the taxi driver scene are the best car scene in movies because, the lights, the ambiance, show how the character feels alone in his life. Sorry for my english, i’m french, but yeah, for me taxi driver has the best car scene in cinema.
I really liked how "Children of Men" got a creative way to film a car scene. The camera is always inside with the characters and makes an unusual but great long take!
Yeah come to think of it that scene also kept me tied in with the characters because it doesn't pull away and is very close. But i never realized that until just now with your comment.
Grand Prix - 1966 they actually raced through the streets of Monaco and their camera cars were a modified F1 car and an actual Ford GT40. We might not look at the actual shots as being terribly unique now but many of the techniques they used were pioneered on this film. And it was shot in 70mm super panavision so that’s cool.
I think I got a movie pick that isn't as known for car shots actually, but it should be, and that would be Twister. I was a kid when I first watched Twister and I became obsessed. I loved everything about it, but in particular, I was in awe of the car shots. The camera at wheel level as they made sharp turns in terrain, kicking dirt and rocks up. The iconic shots of the cars going through these big puddles making curtains of water on their wake. Even more impressive when I finally saw the behind the scenes and the incredible rigs they came up with for the bulky film cameras they were using. It's not necessarily like the single shots of Children of Men or Extraction but the way they went out of their way to capture the energy of the caravans going through the country was something that captured my imagination from then 'till now.
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I'm not seeing Inception's Van chase sequence get enough love here! Using one dope car scene to affect (quite literally) multiple levels of the story, the environments in the deeper levels of the dreams, building tension all throughout the film, and helping the audience keep track of time? That's some incredible screenwriting, and it's gotta be my pick for most creative use of a car scene.
I gotta go with the James Bond Spectre Car chase through Rome. The stunts, the lighting, the humor (with the Fiat 500) is just absolut world-class
Duel 1971, using a mixture of real car shots, and real driving footage made it feel as real as possible like we were in the car, and we were the driver, and some of the shots we take for granted today came from that movie.
Children of Men's car scene is amazing. Won't lie. But the way Drive was able to do three different car chases with three different feels and perspectives is pretty clever and thrilling. The first car chase, which is the opening, the camera is solely in the car, focused on the driver's pov. The 2nd car chase is a more traditional one with a heist going wrong. And the 3rd one, the chase has a more predatorial feel as the driver is hunting someone down. Mad skills and appreciation for planning, constructing and filming those three car scenes all with their own feel and expression.
the drunk driving dad in beginning of Elephant always stuck with me for some reason
In Midsommar when they are traveling to the compound and the shot seamlessly inverts to being an upside down shot. Soooo awesome/trippy.
I’ve seen in some low budget film where they take the bottom of the passenger seat off and mount a camera on the floor of the car angled upward towards the actors face. The placement of the lighting was done very well to sell the look.
I'd say the extraction chase scene would be one of the best car scenes ever
Opening shot of Zodiac! Starts on a hostess tray looking set up, once the car pulls up and the b character get's in, they detach the camera from the car and the car drives off camera left out of frame!
Classic film Bullit with Steve McQueen. How they used basic shots of the them putting on seat belts and shot of the guy putting on his gloves. Before they get into the action. Starts off with them cruising behind McQueen then he switched up on them!
Amazing!
Most creative use of a car shot for me was John Wick 1. When John walks up on the hood of the SUV to shoot the russian bossman. Ive never seen those type of angles before and I was so impressed!
I think the scene in Titane (You know the one) Is dang creative for obvious reasons!
Another favorite is the Helicopter crash scene in Terminator Salvation. The way they go from real copter rig to CGI and back, the way they whip the camera around and use green screen, is amazing! You really feel the violence of a crash.
Thank you for doing this! Exactly the "genre" (for lack of a better word) that I'm interested in. Please do more car stuff!
The shot in Munich where they use the reflections of the windows to frame the characters and their dynamic is absolutely amazing!
Always loved Jason Bourne’s movies, especially when he drives the Mini Cooper. The closeups are so tight adding tension to the action scenes; also the shots to the gear shift leveler.
The scene in Children of Men where the camera literally flies in and through the car constantly while in motion, is probably the gold standard for a shot done inside (and outside) of a car. The smoothness is what really impressed me. Also, how it feels like we are there inside the car with them as the action progresses. Just an overall brilliantly composed shot.
Newest episode of Hawkeye had some pretty interesting car shots.
Thanks for showing how to setup a car rig, i was never shown how to and was always wishing to learn !
Everyone mentioned amazing car shots but let's not forget the amazing 360 shot in the 2005 "War of the Worlds" during the highway scene! Just amazing skills going from wider shots with cars passing between camera and the main vehicle with the talents for more chaotic bits to close ups of every character in the car delivering their lines from every angle. And it all ends with a crane shot!
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loved I really loved "the Gateway" all the different hues and patterns used really set it off. Not crazy, but just so real.
I’ve seen this around but children of men really takes the cake for car scenes for me. The one take and the camera going through the car. So insane, the amount of planning that went into jt
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The final scene of the Transporter 2, where the protagonist drove the Lambo and you can see all those cars & the way they were all positioned in a zigzag manner made it easier to pass by
The truck scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The smoke and moving debris create great texture. Pair that with Richard Dreyfus' performance and you cant lose!
I love the car shot in episode 03 of Marvel's Hawkeye tv show. The shot makes use of a oner which allows the viewer to feel immersed in the scene as if they are sitting in the backseat of the car while all the action happens around them. The field of view also feels pretty close to human sight so they really did a great job with it.
The jump in the original gone in 60 seconds movie. They wrecked the car in the jump and had to do a second take with a new car, but the wreck footage was so great that they left the original footage in the final cut. They used it to foreshadow where the driver's fear could potentially lead us.
The tenet car scene is just blowing my mind with the first scene with the first timeline, then the same scene but in reverse
Loved this. You are amazing at explaining your set up
Glad it was helpful!
The best car shot i have seen is in Children of Men, that thing is incredible and the way they achieved it was even cooler
The awesome chase sequence in Raid 2, the camera just kept going in and out of cars and the behind the scenes videos are sick.
the most creative was the light on the roof which was fit with magnets & the red lights coming from the front as red hue very very creative full of knowledge which can be apply in our coming projects thank you V & everyone in the team!
This video was very well put together! 😖👍
Love these videos! Keep em coming! The most creative use of a car shot I've seen is in a Volvo commercial where they tracked with the car for a couple blocks, and then transitioned the camera to the sidewalk following someone walking all in one shot. Still have no idea how they would've done it unless a stedicam op was hanging out the door haha!
Wow! I love seeing these "behind the scene" footages!!
Thanks for watching!
Extraction had that amazing chase scene where the director went in and out of the car with cuts making it look continuous. That was a very impressive scene and the fact that the director did it himself makes it even more impressive
I know there's a Safety counter there, but it really is the #1 most important thing. We've all heard the stories of when it fails.
I love the chase scene in the place beyond the pines filmed from within the police car
Because the long take and the handheld nature of the shot showed us how relentless the chase waz
I really liked “Le Mans ‘66” car shots and the balance between action shots and really quiet and dramatic shots. It surprised me in a good way.
@2:11 THANK YOU for saying what really needed to be said Valentina. Also, one of the best car chase scenes ever...Ronin (1998) and they're not so much "chase" scenes but the racing scenes in Rush were well done even though a good amount of the scenes were CGI.
The latest Hawkeye episode has a great chase scene, with all sorts of fun gags. The filming is top-notch, way above TV quality, and I love the way they set it up where Clint doesn't want to smash the Challenger but later the bad guys crash it, and it looks so good to be chased by a custom challenger that's racing behind some moving vans full of tracksuit crazies. Disney did a great job of teasing this scene in the preview for the series last month but making it be episode 3 so you've been looking for it for weeks now.
I'll never set up a rig like this but wow ,awesome content. Also I love the MC tip and it's nice to MCs have that extra value of BT extenders , since there are brighter mini panels on the market but they're just not Aputures
I think the movie "Children of men" kills it all... What I gonna say about this masterpiece.. Great information in the video though... Really liked how the led bars attached on the roof of the car.
it's such a great and informative video! you are also very good at explanation things. thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
For me it was all the racing shots in Rush (2013) Formula 1 vehicles are small and more complicated to rig, still they figured out how to get those amazing shots for the movie, which is one of my favorite movies. BTW I've been waiting a tutorial like this for so long, thank you so much! 🙂
The key grip was smart and cute 😳
I think all the car scenes (getaway driving, car chases, etc) in Baby Driver were mesmerizing. I think the shooting and editing was such a unique style of Edgar Wright, and he rarely used the same angle twice. I can’t imagine how time-consuming that must’ve been. Baby Driver gets my vote for most creative car scenes.
One of my favorite car shots is in “LET ME IN”, where the killer is hiding in the back seat and it goes from a warmer tone, with a bit of chase sequence, to a cool soft tone as they pull into a well lit gas station, but this is all observed from the killer’s POV. And the subsequent car crash shot from the far back of the car, stationary as if the world is spinning is also sick.
Super cool. Very helpful and fun
That MC range extender idea is so ingenius!
'Children of Men' gets a worthy mention, but my money is on 'The Raid: 2' where the camera gets passed through the car and the camera man is the CHAIR. Amazing.
Enjoy the cinematography of "Collateral" particularly the lighting of it's in-car shots
‘larious ep, good stuff 👌🏻
Latest episode of Hawkeye had an interior vehicle shot that spun 360 degrees. It looked like the camera was mounted in the back seat, but after watching your video on how these shots are rigged, I imagine there was quite a bit more to it than that. I was impressed.
Taking it to world's most popular car show, Top Gear. The Top Gear special episodes and their (I believe GH4 and now using ZCAM for The Grand Tour) in car interactions, radio conversations, banter .. Some of the best moments came from the car interior scenes. And it's surprising how well those cameras are matched so well as B cams for the ARRI Amira.
I really enjoyed the car scene in the new Hawkeye episode how it was done 360, although they had to rely heavily on VFX and it did show a little, but still fun idea! I think This Is Us pulled off some great green screen car scenes, some of the better ones I’ve seen in television.
Thanks for informative video
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That was a good one, thanks
The car chase in "The Rock" where the close ups of Sean Connery are him just in a stationary car and camera is on a spring of sort to shake it and make us think he's driving the humvee. Simple and effective.
I really like "Taxi" by Gérard Pirès, because the film car scenes are funny and take place in a busy city...
Netflix's Lupin. Part Two, episode 1 around 7:40. Amazing seamless transition from outside of the car to the inside. Still no idea how they pulled it off, but oh so great and pleasing to watch. Great series over all too. In the scene right after the transition, the boy is filmed from where the car-door would be. I wonder how they did that too.
I'd have to go with Mad Max: Fury Road. Too many moments to pick from, but I'd have say the big rig that is customized by Furiosa. It reveals a lot of her character; the knife in the gear shifter, the guns mounted everywhere, the start-up switches, the plow to put out an engine fire, it's all fantastic.
Though it kinda gave me a headache, I thought the opening to Waves with the spinning camera inside the car was a great opening that definitely captured the feeling of being wild and reckless, while being pretty minimalistic looking. Like a more indie Children of Men sequence
Love it!
I liked some of the car shots from Bladerunner 2049 and it’s interesting to think about the way that they did it with the futuristic style vehicles and how most of them weren’t moving at all so the grip process was likely much different.
Awesome post. The most creative use of a camera in a car scene for me was "War Of The Worlds" (2005) starring Tom Cruise (Minivan on the freeway)
Great job, thanks alot!
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This was a wonderful video. Especially with set security and safety at this point, to not talk about it almost feels a disservice is being done. Placing a light outside the to suggest to passing vehicles of the proximity to a protruding object, the camera seems common sense, but was a perfect suggestion.
A driving sequence that I really like which sets the tone for a really great film comes from Dylan O’Brien in the film Infinite.
Beginning at 0:15, the talent looks up as the audience has already been introduced to a pursuing police helicopter. The use of light is used in the cut to the following shot showing a CU on the talent looking OTS and upwards. The choice to permit enough light to not distract, but to show the talent’s top button unbutton from his shirt and a loosened tie with a splash of light on the head rest and seat for separation begins to say to the audience, this isn’t just some fast driving father rushing home from a fling. Not to mention he must have been going pretty fast to attract the attention of the police/ helicopter pursuit.
At 0:17 the lighting that appears to be outside of the vehicle reflect through the window, crossing the talent, pulling the viewers eye’s to the center of the frame. It’s in this center that the teal and orange is displayed. The teal appears to have been used as his key and I would believe an internal light above him was used as a fill. I arrived at this from a faint hot spot on his temple, camera left.
At 0:19, the viewers are remind of the search light that is in hot pursuit, thus hitting our actor, which can be seen as a direct lighting source hitting the talent at 0:20.
0:24 is how I would commonly use a lighting source internal. I can see there are at least three lighting sources being used. As the talent looks over his shoulder a tungsten light source hits the seat and the top part of his face. The lower is from the cooler daylight replicating the environment. I feel a finger was used to cut a some of the light. I believe the tungsten was mounted in the back seat as the catch light in his right eye suggest.
0:41 doesn’t have a kicker in the back of talent’s head, but you’ll notice at 0:43 on the ECU there is a noticeable separation for the talent’s head, that also exposes his neck. This allows viewers to see his white collared shirt and enough of the black suit jacket to separate from the infinite darkness. Also on this same shot at 0:43 the key side of his face provides just enough light to signal to viewers the bokeh is what is lighting his face. This works for me, especially when the camera is on the fill side of his face and dominates the scene. Brilliant to me. At 1:43 - 1:44
The lighting was creative to me because it conveys the speed with constantly changing lighting conditions and locations. It uses light as a subject and it permits the viewers to feel like in the dark of a semi lit street, O’Brien is giving it his all in this Ferrari to evade capture.
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I liked Hereditary’s use of the car scene as it is a step away from the industry standard of using a car scene as filler and instead using it to compel the story and provoke horror from the audience in a unique but effective execution.
I really like the car scene in "Hawkeye". It appears to be continuous as the camera rotates in the back of the car first showing us the main actors then rotating to the back window and revealing whats chasing them.
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love the video guys it’s incredibly helpful! i’m sure a team of this size might attract a lot of attention from residents passing by, did you all have to get permits to film these scenes? would they be needed for intersections, freeways, etc?
"Fast Five" the scene where the two cars are pulling an actual 9000 lbs. volt and smashing it into real life structures built for the scene. Incredible degree of accuracy and a super realistic result.
"Extraction" car stunt because the director Sam Hargrave was rigged to the hood of the car while holding a camera to get amazing scenes where he's jump off the car and get close to the main car and film from the action to inside the car. AMAZING!!
In Fast & Furious 5, directed by Community's "Paintball" genius, Justin Lin, when the team - sorry, family - finally get into the bank and chain the actual vault up to the Dodge Chargers, they speed out with all the corrupt cops of Brazil chasing after Dom and Brian. After Mia informs them to go straight, but the cops roll out spike strips to stop them, Dom tells Brian that they have to turn right. As they turn right, the bank vault rolls & crashes through a building, and as the cables pull taut on the Chargers we get an amazing shot of the rear wheels of a Charger lift off the ground by the weight of the thrashing vault and bounce up & down on the asphalt as the tire screeches attempting to get traction again due to the sudden shift in weight. Quick, effective, and creative!
There was tense moment in Jordan Peele's "Us". An OTS shot of the main character driving up to the roadblock of a car fire. If I remember correctly 😅
outstanding.
Thanks!
Great video! You mentioned needing permits for the low level truck beds etc, which makes total sense.. but you don't need any sort of permit when you are rigging stuff to a car? Like a Tilta Hydra for instance? Would love to know! Thanks!
Me too!
I would have to say the most interesting car scene was from the movie children of men because of the way the camera moved everyone in the car had to become temporary camera operators to pull up is Emerald operators to pull off that shot
Fantastic scene!
I love how the indie way is a 100.000 dollar shot with a crew of 10 people xDDD
Love the MC part…
So useful!
*Can you make a video of how two people's conversation shot made inside the car? Like how the camera captures simultaneously a lengthy two-person conversation scene? I wonder how it was taken!!!*
I remember the scene from Groundhog Day when Bill Murray is escaping with Punxsutawney Phil and being chased by the police. Although the lighting was pretty flat and the realism was pretty bad, and it goes against most of what this channel brings to the industry - A groundhog grabbing the steering wheel and Bill Murray is creative enough!!!
Excellent episode. Where can we get those tube lights?
I think everyone will say children of men is the mother of all car shots