Problems With Filming Inside a Car

As you can see from the previous post we recently experimented with camera angels we could use within a car. This was valuable experience that has made us realise how hard or impossible it is to film certain shots. One of the main problems we had was the limited height we had to get certain angels, this was because the car we used was a small three door hatch back. This is not the car we intend to use in our video, the car we aim to use is slightly bigger and more spacious. There was many things we had avoid such as; the camera appearing in the reflection of the mirrors, headrests getting the way and being to close to the front seats. The image on the right shows the main problem we came across when trying rear view mirror shots, we tried for around five minuets to get one shot of me in the distance. The problem was the low archer rear window of the car, in the car we aim to use in our video this problem will not occur the rear view mirror is wide and clear. In the photo above I was thirty one meters away from the car which would be the reasonable distance for a shot when the car is moving. Also the car we used was quite small inside as the picture on the left shows, but as you already know the car we wish to use in our video is proportionately bigger inside and suits the theme of the video more than the small hatch back we used to experiment.