This is the scene from The Fast and Furious that we will be trying to recreate. We were originally going to make the trailer for Fast 6 but we realised that it would be very involving and most of the shots would be very impractical and difficult to recreate. We chose this scene as it is quite a significant and known scene from the first Fast and Furious that we felt wouldn't be too difficult to make given the time and resources we have available.
Analysis:
The Fast and the Furious was the first of the Fast and Furious franchise. The film is essentially about an undercover cop (Brian O'Connor) that is needed by the LAPD to help solve a case involving street racer suspect Dominic Toretto. The scene shown is at the end of the film when O'Connor has chased Toretto after an unsuccessful mission. The pair do however by now have a relationship and the scene is almost a show of how the officer is commited to the street racing life by risking his life to get across the train crossing with Toretto.
The scene starts with the two p
Props:
We will be using toy cars to shoot the outside shots of the cars. We have decided to do this as it is the best way to represent the action in the scene - We would not be able to drive two cars side by side over a train crossing and do stunts in real cars, but we could achieve these things with toy cars and different ways of moving them. We would for instance attach stiff wire to the car to be flipped at the end of the scene so that we would be able to maneuver it through the air in slow motion with a lot of control.
Other props include real vehicles or cardboard boxes made to look like cars for the closer shots of the drivers. We would also have to make the street setting with a train track, train and crossroad.
Setting:
The scene can be divided into two settings. One being in miniature, with a model street, and the other being in real scale, with medium shots in cars.
The miniature set and toy cars will be used to shoot the outside shots of the cars. We would make this out of cardboard with drawn garage fronts, sprayed black roads with authentic looking signs and scenery.
The real life sets would literally just be used for the interior shots of the cars. To do this we will hopefully borrow two stationary cars and possibly use a green screen backdrop to make the vehicles appear to be moving. If we cannot use real vehicles, or if we decide on deliberately going against it for comic effect, we will use cardboard boxes and props to mimic a car.
Roles:
The roles we will all have - Camera, editing, set design etc...
