I'm just thinking out line lion loud here, so all points of view welcome.
How important would a quality DVD of the rally be?
First, I'm not going to shoot it. I will not charge a dime to help put it together, even if you guys want it. And even if I don't attend, I'd be willing to help locate some very talented shooters. Film guys that could shoot video, transfer to a DVD.
I'm not talking some typical slock car gathering video piece of dung, like you and I've bought in the past. Some car guys love cars so much and think they can make cool videos, but, sorry they suck at it, and nobody talented does.
I'm talking a quality hour long, could be 2 hours if you want lots of not important but buyer interesting footage.
And or could be two DVDs, one just great super cool Ford GT footage with tight cuts. The other a longer, can't show strangers vertion, or you'll bore them, but car guys might like it.
Cool predawn shots of all the GTs waiting first light. Some action shots of drive bys, cool pans, tight long shots comming over rises etc., mutiple cars.
Factory tour footage if Ford/SV? says, "cool".
Maybe ten to thirty seconds of some dumb speech or inside
BS, but mainly great shots like a dozen guys finding a Ritz pass key and raiding Piccola's room at 2:59 AM.
Good Ritz bar footage of us talking, joking. etc. Dinner too.
Has to have everyone's GT in the thing.
Has to have everyone's face in the thing. Even if a quick barage of facial portraits (1 sec. each).
'The Italian Job', Ford GT designer guy if he's cool, maybe in his studio, and Piccola all covered in wet paint and him rolling on the floor in a huge unstrung canvas. Like the movie "Blow Up', also of which Piccola hasn't seen, but should.
A few very cool car mount shots, spliced with tight vignettes of great angles of the Ford GT.
Possibly some cool fade cuts of the same shot of a portion of the car, but then blend different car colors of that same angle.
On and on we can go.
Just a thought.
Here's the bad/good news.
Making a DVD is work, hard work. And expensive to boot.
No one will make any money really, even the shooters will be working for peanuts. Still expenses etc. add up. Plus their time, traveling shooting editing.
The rally attendents can't be expected to get up at predawn and go to some place and sit on thier butts till great light and drive the same streach of 200 yards of payment over and over, unless you want to.
In other words, the project must be realistic and fun for the rally attendants. The shooters do most of the work.
Some time must be allotted for great driving footage.
Getting stuff on the 'fly' is possible but not likely.
First is this something you guys+piccola want?
If so give me ideas of what you want, and anything else.
Later we could put a figure together so I can contact some people to see if this can be pulled off.
Any thoughts pro or con?
Allan
PS I do want access to this footage later, not the whole thing, but maybe a shot or twenty I don't know yet, everyone must sign a release. I did'nt want to say this because I don't know for sure if I'm going to do this but, I am concidering a DVD on a few Supercars. Of which the Ford GT will be one. I will only do this if I can presell it.
This is not the DVD above.
It will only be cool footage of many action shots of the cars in action. Nope I haven't been posting here to make Ford GT friends for a DVD, I've been posting here because I like the Ford GT and while here I've been fortunate to find so many interesting people. Enough said. :cool
How important would a quality DVD of the rally be?
First, I'm not going to shoot it. I will not charge a dime to help put it together, even if you guys want it. And even if I don't attend, I'd be willing to help locate some very talented shooters. Film guys that could shoot video, transfer to a DVD.
I'm not talking some typical slock car gathering video piece of dung, like you and I've bought in the past. Some car guys love cars so much and think they can make cool videos, but, sorry they suck at it, and nobody talented does.
I'm talking a quality hour long, could be 2 hours if you want lots of not important but buyer interesting footage.
And or could be two DVDs, one just great super cool Ford GT footage with tight cuts. The other a longer, can't show strangers vertion, or you'll bore them, but car guys might like it.
Cool predawn shots of all the GTs waiting first light. Some action shots of drive bys, cool pans, tight long shots comming over rises etc., mutiple cars.
Factory tour footage if Ford/SV? says, "cool".
Maybe ten to thirty seconds of some dumb speech or inside
BS, but mainly great shots like a dozen guys finding a Ritz pass key and raiding Piccola's room at 2:59 AM.
Good Ritz bar footage of us talking, joking. etc. Dinner too.
Has to have everyone's GT in the thing.
Has to have everyone's face in the thing. Even if a quick barage of facial portraits (1 sec. each).
'The Italian Job', Ford GT designer guy if he's cool, maybe in his studio, and Piccola all covered in wet paint and him rolling on the floor in a huge unstrung canvas. Like the movie "Blow Up', also of which Piccola hasn't seen, but should.
A few very cool car mount shots, spliced with tight vignettes of great angles of the Ford GT.
Possibly some cool fade cuts of the same shot of a portion of the car, but then blend different car colors of that same angle.
On and on we can go.
Just a thought.
Here's the bad/good news.
Making a DVD is work, hard work. And expensive to boot.
No one will make any money really, even the shooters will be working for peanuts. Still expenses etc. add up. Plus their time, traveling shooting editing.
The rally attendents can't be expected to get up at predawn and go to some place and sit on thier butts till great light and drive the same streach of 200 yards of payment over and over, unless you want to.
In other words, the project must be realistic and fun for the rally attendants. The shooters do most of the work.
Some time must be allotted for great driving footage.
Getting stuff on the 'fly' is possible but not likely.
First is this something you guys+piccola want?
If so give me ideas of what you want, and anything else.
Later we could put a figure together so I can contact some people to see if this can be pulled off.
Any thoughts pro or con?
Allan
PS I do want access to this footage later, not the whole thing, but maybe a shot or twenty I don't know yet, everyone must sign a release. I did'nt want to say this because I don't know for sure if I'm going to do this but, I am concidering a DVD on a few Supercars. Of which the Ford GT will be one. I will only do this if I can presell it.
This is not the DVD above.
It will only be cool footage of many action shots of the cars in action. Nope I haven't been posting here to make Ford GT friends for a DVD, I've been posting here because I like the Ford GT and while here I've been fortunate to find so many interesting people. Enough said. :cool
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