Filming Minatures

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shred444

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has anyone had any sucess in filming minatures, expecially cars and compositing them into a scene? I'm looking to shoot a car accident with a sedan, and have it tumbling towards the camera.

One thing i am worried about is this: The camera is supposed to be lying on the street. Since the car is scaled down so much, wouldnt the lens have to be scaled down as well? (this of course is not possible, unless you use a boriscope?). Since the lense is almost the size of the car, wouldnt it distort the object and make it seem less real?
 
Yes, and no, there is a real art of shooting miniatures, and if you want to make them look real, here are a couple of points.

1st, yes, you have to make your lens smaller, or more specifically, you have to make your CCD smaller, or atleast appear smaller, so the way to do this would be to stop down the lens, you would want to shoot at around f8.0 or so, so that the depth of field is not overly shallow giving the look of shooting something very small, very close to the lens..

2nd, you can't just shoot on the street otherwise your street is going to have giant rocks in it, but I guess this really depends on what size your miniatures are.

3rd, lighting, since you are outside, lighting shouldn't be a big deal.

Hope this helps you on your way.
 
hey, thanks, the fstop trick is a great idea. The raw background footage of the street is going to be shot at night, on a real street. The car is going to be shot on a green screen, and maybe moved with a green stick attached to it. I'll then be able to rotate the car as desired as it move towards the camera. i'll add sparks and pieces of glass in post production.

any other ideas?
 
i think from what i rember u need to have certain size fir realism i belive ut 1:10 for the scale

peace n luv

Mark Dog
 
i used aftereffects with a plugin called particular from trapcode. trapcode.com

i gave them some phsyics so that they bounch of the road layer.
 
speed!!

speed!!

I think you also have to change the reproduction speed, depending on your scale, but I've shoot a 1/5 rc car crashing and then played it at half the normal speed, it looks more real.
I guess you'll have to try ...
 
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