Filmmaking / Directing : Shooting /choreographing /editing by Julian Nabunya

hi guys ..... please help

If you speed up the scene in post youspeed up everything, ie. actors, speech, etc. Obviously the best solution is a controlled van environment. That is to have the van on a camera car rig. You can place the camera low on the floor of the van shooting out the doors so you can see the scenery passing quickly by in the background while the actors fight safely inside the van. If you want have one dangle from the van, you will need a saftey line and perhaps rotor it out in post. The camera is still low so that you see the road by not the trailer. That would be my suggestion.

There are many ways you can achieve this, you can achieve it as explained by Byron McKim above or you can film while moving slowly and then increase the speed on edit by 20 - 30%. Before you increase the speed make sure you duplicate the clip, Leave one of the clip's audio original. You may need to cut between the original and the fasten clips when editing, also make some parts very slow to create a slow motion effect. When filming that part, tell your characters to speak a bit slowly.

Stationary van, green screen, shot very carefully. Because of the very real danger I would not suggest you attempt this scene without a very experienced stunt supervisor and on set EMT.

Do a story boards. You will find that few shots are wide. Or try to have few wide shots. Those shots can be speed up if you have to. The res of the shots - try to use MCU and CUs. Try not to show the road or moving objects. Create the feeling of the speed with sound while shooting with the van stopped. If you have CUs where you see the road - then just insert 6x6 Green Screen behind the actor and later - in post put in the flying by road and other moving objects behind. Use POV shots to the road, threes, other cars - ecs. You can shoot those from a very fast moving car since no actors are in them. Use them as inserts in the editing to create dynamic feeling. For example - MCU of A hanging on the open door of the VAN. Cut to his POV: A three branch fast approaching toward A - i.e. - the camera. The firs shot you can shoot without moving the van at all. The second you can shoot easily from a simple car mount. Make sure you have precise story boards. Show them to your composting / spatial FX guy and ask him if he can do it. Redo the boards with his input. Do one day rehearsals with the actors. When you shoot plan for more hours and take your time to do your shots as you planed. In the post use sound FX to enhance the feeling of speed - tires, wind noise, horns of the other cars. Also I suggest you to watch chase car scenes and stop at every shot to learn haw it is done.

thanks every one above , you have relieved my mind , i did n't know how to do this , but i wanted it on screen . your contribution helped alot . i have faced the same problem in one of of previous short , when character A was supposed to hit Character B with a rock onto the head , i shot it on low pace , but when it came to post , i asked the editor to accelerate the speedy thing messed up , when we put it in slow motion , the feel of hiting did n'tmake sense , i then decided to remove the whole scenery from the movie , and it was the only fighting scene i had in movie . upto now i have never accepted that its my own picture and yet my name rolls in the credits . thanks once again , now i know i have to look into an interior angle , its every inportant especially when i have the van on low pace , or and different shoot counts .reharsals , enough timing , i had give that 5 hours before but i think i will have to refix my time table , Thanks Pup , Byron, Robert P , Otuya

Green screen. Get a large fan for the wind effects on the actors. The van does not have to be moving if you shoot close up on the action - just get some crew to rock it for movement reality. Then insert a moving background in your NLE.

thanks every one above . your contributions counts alot , i will it the move posted .