pushing my car off a cliff or bridge...

**BolexPlusx** · August 23rd, 2003, 11:06 AM

Hmmm....

I wondered what it was going to take to liven things up on this board!

**MovieStuff** · August 23rd, 2003, 11:57 AM

This post was removed because it was a monumental waste of time on my part.

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**dharmabum1949** · August 23rd, 2003, 08:09 PM

Moviestuff,

I'm very impressed with your minature work, I wouldn't have imagined that you could reproduce actual scenes with such accuracy. The suburban home was especially convincing. Were these models made for your own personal work or were you hired out by larger production studios?

**MovieStuff** · August 23rd, 2003, 09:07 PM

This post was removed because it was a monumental waste of time on my part.

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**chas_ucla** · August 25th, 2003, 08:24 PM

I'd like to make a few suggestions, based upon years of hard work in this field:

1.) Rig up a camera in the car looking over the dashboard. Sure, the car will be ruined but the camera might turn out ok, if not, the film surely will be. Make sure it's your best camera -- you don't want to put some cheesy-scrap camera in the car. I'd recommend the Canon 814-XL or 1014-XL personally.

2.) have 3 camera men on the outside, filming from separate angles. You want this to look good, right? If the car is falling over a bridge, have someone you don't like too well positioned directly UNDERNEATH where the car is sure to fall. Make sure he understands the shot and won't run away like some glue-sniffing fag! This will look SO COOL when you get the film back from processing (seeing a car land directly on top of you -- man, the audience will freak, wondering how you got that shot!)

3.) Finally, put yourself in the driver's seat to get the car to go over the cliff the "right way." After all, you don't want some homo boy ruining your shot! Make sure you have the necessary insurance and next-of-kin paperwork lined up so your partners can finish the film should you be unable to do so personally.

Best of luck! let us know how it turns out! This is footage I can't wait to see!

**syracusefilm.com** · August 25th, 2003, 08:44 PM

Sorry guys, I'm unimpressed with your "miniature work", it still looks cheap, and I'm sure you guys are gonna spend a whole hell of a lot more making you little models that come out looking only kinda real, thanks but no thanks. And if you're offended by my comments f*ck off, you don't know me, how do know I wouldn't slip to you you dumb straity(-mr dharmabum, don't you think that I don't know kerouac was a little pillow biter),(I try to be fair when it comes to descrimination). So to all you easily offended modelmakers, politically correct activists, arrogant know it alls, and wannabe filmmakers, my music video will be out before the years end and if I get arrested, I'll just used it as a promoting tool. Thanks for nothing f**kheads and douchemongers. Maybe I'll be back to stir up your f**king boring hostboard.

later,

Nick

**chas_ucla** · August 25th, 2003, 08:56 PM

Hey! That's not very nice. What about my suggestions? Here I was, trying to help out a fellow filmmaker in need. Well, I guess you are a pro, making music videos and the like, while most of us here fiddle around with our cameras, using them for little more than paperweights and such.

<sigh> I hate to do it, sending people to another board for answers but perhaps this one will be of better help to you; I believe they are already discussing your predicament:
more helpful filmmaking web page for syracuse lad

**syracusefilm.com** · August 25th, 2003, 09:05 PM

Interesting takes... thanks chas_, am not sure about the rest though...

**Cranium** · August 25th, 2003, 09:35 PM

Dude, read carefully...
In between pointing out what a terrible idea I think this is, I did offer one VERY reasonable suggestion (I think.)
If you're going to go through all of the logistics and headaches that it would take to actually get a car airborn from a bridge in the first place, then shoot it during the day. I can't think of a Super8 stock that would turn out any results worth the hassle of shooting it at night. This is the kind of shot that you'll want to blow your wad on, if you're that fixed on shooting it. Multi-cameras, etc.
Hell, it would be worth it.

But hey, with attitude like yours, you just may have a future in Hollywood.
If you know all the friggin' answers, why ask?