This looks really great, guys.
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it. You said the cut is coming in at 55min, did you always plan for it to be an hour long, or just seeing how it shaped up.
Also curious: a) what was your camera vehicle? b) what cameras did you use - both in car and out?
And besides making it available for people to see, what's your larger plan here? Is there one?
Well done.
I was always planning on it being either 30mins or 1hour. As it was, after my first run-through it came out to about 50mins and there was going to be no way to cut it down to 30 and still include everything I wanted. After going back and re-doing some stuff and adding a few things here & there, it came out to about 55min which works for me.
Our camera vehicle and the cameras we used -- go check our website/blog and scroll down (or maybe go back a page). There is an entry from our Director of Photography where he goes through everything in great detail.
Larger plan? Other than convincing Andy Wilman that WE should be TGUS
, no, there is no larger plan. The idea was originally one I had when I sat down to decide what fun thing I wanted to do after I took the California Bar last summer but before I started working again. I called up a few friends and asked if they wanted to make a film, as sort of an homage to Top Gear and everyone was really into the idea. It grew from there to what it is today.
Final tweaks are taking much longer than anticipated and exporting the full thing, compressing it down, and getting it online is a process that will take days to complete simply because we are limited by our equipment and internet connections.
Most of us are leaving in a couple days to go over to Europe for snowboarding and while we're there we intend to go check out the original Top Gear "World's Greatest Driving Road." We won't be shooting a film on the scale of this project (as this is primarily a vacation, not a film shoot), but we will be coming back with some kind of footage and that footage will likely make it online in some form or another.
As far as this film goes, we really really really hope to have it online by the time we get back, so look for it to be released on the weekend of the 24th-25th. Hopefully. Barring any major roadblocks, at this point, that should be realistic.