Car chases and what-not.

Before my car transforms into it's helicopter mode, there is a brief car chase involving 3 cars. Naturally being a student film, and not having the ability to close off roads, this quickly becomes a logistical nightmare.


Bar the quick swerving around corners and the high speeds which can be solved in editing, the main concern is safely allowing the camera to shoot exteriors of the car. On films vehicles can have camera stands built into them allowing cameras to be on the outside of the car. Also they can have another car in the other lane or in front to get exteriors. This again would be tricky to do safely.


My solution is my GOPRO Hero 2, A small "Stunt" camera designed to be attached to cars etc.

Using the GoPro I can put the camera really close to the ground which will give an illusion of speed due to perspective. The suction pad is also very resilient at high speeds. After shooting it is a simple matter of driving smoothly and speeding the footage up.