STORYTELLING UNIT: FILMING INSIDE A CAR

After deciding on creating the opening 2 minutes I realised a difficult task I had with creating this. I need James to be driving a car. At first I thought I could just record the actor talking while driving a car for real but then found out there are serious health and safety issues with that and it isn't allowed, As well it would be really difficult to record Lily's dialogue as well if the car was moving. So I scrapped that idea and began thinking of other ways I could film this. I remembered that in sitcoms you've always got scenes where people are driving but it's actually green screen behind them or a projector.

 
However, I don't like the look of this. It's been used in so many sitcoms that I just feel it's too cheesy and doesn't look very professional in a short film. But using green screen was an idea that I liked and thankfully found a video by the YouTube channel 'Film Riot' who focus on DIY film making and created a video called Drive in a Car without Driving in a Car! where they show their viewers 3 different ways of driving a car. 2 of which involved confined spaces but the first with green screen involved lighting the green screen and then simply recording the footage and getting footage from a moving car later to add onto the green screen. I decided to take this but instead of trying to find a confined space like garage I could use the car park in the Maidstone studios and have the natural day light as my light source for the green screen. This way I can get the footage I need and don't have to worry about finding somewhere to use the car or the green screen.