Road Hazard Perception Production

[marinpa]

Hey guys!

I am a Advanced Tactical Driving instructor with an anti terrorism school and we would like to produce a number of video clips so that we can train and test our trainees in techniques of Road Hazard Perception.

In essence, I want to install 1-2 cameras in a vehicle (driver/passenger POV) and start to drive at different rates of speed and in different driving environments.

At the end, an edited version of the video clips will be presented in our training facility (on a big screen or a projector) to either individual or a group of trainees to asses their perception and/or use them as a training method in hazard perception and identification, where we will provide the trainee with a set of instructions telling him "what to look for" and use the video as practice in these procedures.


Now the question for you guy is this; For the purposes above mentioned and in order to provide a most accurate (closest) viewing perspective and experience to the reality:

1) Onboard cameras (driver/passenger POV)
What would be the best focal distance and viewing angle for the cameras?

2) What would be the ideal viewing distance and hight

3) What would be the ideal diagonal of the picture

4) Is the use of HD warranted for this procedure?

5) Any hardware (small/compact cameras) recommendations?


If anyone is up for a barter, video production for advanced driving training please let me know.

Thank you anticipated for your time and effort

 

[Giganova]

There's a bunch of cool "helmet camcorders" that might interest you. You can have the tiny video head (looks like a pen) installed anywhere in the car, and mount the recorder in the trunk. You could have one of the heads mounted underneath the interior mirror, pointing at the street ahead of the driver, and one at the passenger side filming the driver. Both heads can be synced and record to the same recording unit in the trunk. You can put a third head on the helmet of the driver then you can re-live his head movements. I'd definitely go with a high-def version that you can show on flat-screen tvs in your training.

Here's a cool little unit that records to solid state (so vibrations/car crashes don't affect the video:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/575700-REG/V_I_O___POV_1_Digital_Helmet_Camera.html

 

[grinner]

I'd think two helmetcams would do the trick just fine.
I see no need for HD.