goro toshima Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 hi all, i'm planning on shooting some driving shots of Pico Blvd--b-roll for a documentary in which LA (and Pico blvd, in particular) is a 'character'. i'd like to do something interesting, outside of the basic driving b-roll shot. can anybody think of any examples for other movies where a driving b-roll shot was done in an interesting way? thanks for any suggestions. goro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Salmons Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 This might help you for some inspiration. It's Berlin, a film all about a city as the character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted July 29, 2013 Premium Member Share Posted July 29, 2013 I suppose what to shoot will depend on what your documentary is about. Having just spend 2 days doing this in a car through WEHO on a 5DMKIII I can say that I really enjoy the interplay of light during night driving and how wonderful traffic and lights can look when thrown way out of focus-- especially on the 24mm and 135mm L series lenses I was tending towards. I also like the drive Northbound on 110 to Pasadena through the tunnels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goro toshima Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 This might help you for some inspiration. It's Berlin, a film all about a city as the character. thanks paul....i think i know what you're talking about...but what's the name of the film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goro toshima Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 I suppose what to shoot will depend on what your documentary is about. Having just spend 2 days doing this in a car through WEHO on a 5DMKIII I can say that I really enjoy the interplay of light during night driving and how wonderful traffic and lights can look when thrown way out of focus-- especially on the 24mm and 135mm L series lenses I was tending towards. I also like the drive Northbound on 110 to Pasadena through the tunnels. thanks adrian...the film is basically about food and LA. and the stretch of pico from central LA to the westside is a good example of the diversity of LA as seen through the different food options. so basically, we're doing daytime shooting and are trying to show the storefronts. i'm thinking about rigging car, doing one long take, and perhaps in post ask editor to use twixor to highlight certain areas...but i'd love to figure out other interesting options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted July 29, 2013 Premium Member Share Posted July 29, 2013 Might be interesting if you also got some shots of the big farmers markets (driving or not driving) and maybe even see if you can find any kind of garden overlooking the skyline (hell you could take a nice ripe tomato plant up to the Angele national forest and get an interesting shot of tomato in forground growing and DTLA in bg faking it like you're in some big farm or something). I also really love all the Taco trucks, especially at night how they all light up like mad. Not 100% sure where a lot of them are, but they always look pretty amazing when you drive by them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Salmons Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Doh, forgot the link, sorry about that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76FNxsJlt8 It's called Berlin, a city symphony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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