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Here's my latest "fun" project that turned out to be more painstaking than "fun". It's a shot-for-shot remake of the car ride scene from the film Se7en. We started shooting this on green screen in a garage last summer.. and i finally finished it this week. It took 1 day to saw and fit the metal grate inside the car, and 1 day of shooting. I cut it
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Just for starters we had to track down where to buy a sheet of 1.5 gage metal grate, similar to the grate used in the squad car in the original movie. Richmond Steel on boulevard $35
We cut it to spec using a sawzall and fastened it into the back seat using plastic ties and ducktape.
I had no idea where to get a orange prison shirt.. so i asked around and found Sunny Zhao had one from this shoot.
Each shot inside the car is a composite of 6 or 7 layers of video. I had to take bits and pieces of the original film, blow it up, mask out areas, color correct to match my video, add film grain and color key out my windows. Then duplicate to make it loop. You can see in certain shots the background is only 4 or 5 seconds long and just looped over and over again. I placed the looping background breaks in-between the actual finished cuts so you wouldn't notice that they jump. A lot of the background shots are just quicktime thumbnails that i took from thought equity or getty images and cropped out the watermarks. After that i added a motion shake to my video to make it look like on-board camera movement. Then, finally, i exported everything out of AE and pulled it into final cut to edit. It took about 45 minutes to render 15 seconds of video.
What a fucking pain in the ass...And that was just the video..
For the sound, Mike and Bob had to build simulated car interiors in the recording studio so they could get the ADR sounding realistic. They watched clips from other movies the original actors had done (fight club, etc.) to get the voice inflection sounding right. Then copied the engine noise from the scene, bumps, telephone poles going by and also used pieces from the original soundtrack.
I had dialogue sound in camera, but it wasn't nearly as good. Because each actor had to pretend like he was talking to another person in the car, the disconnection in their dialogue back and forth was just too noticeable.
Anyone still reading this..?
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