Started a 5 day shoot with Land Rover magazine, OneLife, with Scott A. Woodward (www.scottawoodward.com) here in Singapore. We are shooting a short film about the experience that Rod McKenzie has during his 5-day journey around Singapore meeting entrepreneurs.
After day one, the shoot is proving difficult. The biggest problem is that the urban city gridlock makes it very inefficient to scout a location, get an angle, position the car long enough for a shot (or for any action to be called with car and driver) and eventually decide that it's the right place for the shot.
I think we learned a lot yesterday though - Don't do it during the weekday. So, this weekend is our time to get the big buildings, empty streets and car driving through them.
If this happens, the next challenge is the scale issue. The problem is that over the last decade Singapore has decided that building for superlatives are more important than keeping some sort of architectural integrity in tact for their new buildings. So, this has created engourged looking buildings of inhuman scale that make it very difficult to shoot a normal sized car in front of it without distorting the image too much. Additionally - the downtown city center is built so compact that getting any distance is very difficult so you are always very close up on the vehicle trying to get both in the shot.
Anyway - here's a quick shot of the day from the incredible iphonography gallery of Scott A. Woodward.
- MR
